Windows 7 hack: Migrate Windows Mail from Vista

Microsoft had introduced a new free email and newsgroup client in Windows Vista, Windows Mail. It succeeded Microsoft’s long grown Outlook Express. Now Windows Mail has been replaced by Windows Live Mail, which can be downloaded as a part of Windows Live Essentials suite of products. As Windows 7 doesn’t come pre-installed or bundled with any email client, not even Windows Mail. The new Windows Live Mail is packed with features. It might take a few days before we get accustomed to the new interface of Windows Live Mail. If you want to use legacy Windows Mail in Windows 7, you can extract and port Windows Mail from Windows Vista to install Windows 7.

Let’s see how to migrate Windows Mail in Windows Vista to Windows 7

Step 1: Go to the System drive >Program files>Windows Mail

Step 2: Copy all the files and folders in Windows Mail Folder

Step 3: To port over or migrate, overwrite or replace the same folders on Windows 7 system

Things to do

You can download Windows Mail system files here

• In Windows 7 system, allow full control permissions and ownership to administrators for %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Windows Mail\ folder
• Have a backup of %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Windows Mail\ folder in Windows 7
• You can create a shortcut on desktop or Start Menu that points to %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Windows Mail\winmail.exe

Note: Information via mydigitallife, we haven’t tested it ourselves. It is for informational purposes only