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Solved! I killed the mirror, re-formatted the freed-up drive(which gave me a chance to assign the letter "C" to it), installed the OS on that, made it the boot-drive, reformatted the former boot drive("D"), and made it mirror to "C". Cool!

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a newly formatted scsi drive that carried designator "D"(the existing "C" was a smaller SCSI that I wanted to get rid of) I removed the old "C" drive and installed another new scsi(identical to the new boot drive). The second drive was recognized but did not get...

I got stuck with that nasty, nasty little program Windows Messenger and a bunch of other CRAP That I did not want when I downloaded Live Mail. It turns out that if you go to control panel, uninstall programs, click live essentials, uninstall/modify, you are then given a list of components to...

So did I, but it downloaded everything anyway

I tried to download live mail alone and ended up with that plus messenger and the entire live essentials suite. Messenger is a real pest-I hate it and it won't leave me alone. Cannot uninstall the crap I don't want without also uninstalling mail. Will this lose my email settings, contacts, and...

I need a forum administrator assist to delete a thread- do not see other means of contact- Thanks

Actually, I paid for MS Office with my recently new Dell, but it does not include Outlook. I've tried to get Thunderbird up and running but I see no way to import settings, folders, or contacts from Live Mail. I see no export function in live mail at all, and Thunderbird's "import from"...

RAK-Thanks for the clarification- Thanks for the clarifications. I thought the whole "Live" bundle was essentially cloud computing being promoted by Microsoft. I'll spend a bit more time with Live Mail and try to do some customizing. One question- Is there a way to export the...

I appreciate your sentiment- and I was very much looking forward to Windows 7, but I feel that Microsoft's decision to deprive me of a basic, valuable component, Windows Mail, typifies the company's arrogant disdain for it's own clients.

I want all of my email files and folders on my own computer- not on a Microsoft server. Also, I dislike the organization and functionality of inbox, send/receive, etc. I REALLY dislike windows Messenger and the other intrusive, privacy-robbing components that were included, against my wishes...

That's it! I'm going back to Vista-(not!) Why can I not at least have the option for local email? Windows mail was fine in Vista. Windows live is a total turn-off EDIT- I think this is resolved for me- Would have been easier if Microsoft had included a replacement for windows mail WITH...

Red-faced edit here- this was a frustrated first draft that I did not intend to post. I thought that I had changed it to the much toned-down version with the same thread title that appears elsewhere in this forum. It was troubling to discover that this also posted. My apologies.