Icon for Windows Mail

How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
for Outlook Express is getting old.

What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
Windows Mail?
Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
(create shortcut).

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>

In Start Menu > All Programs, right-click on Windows Mail and choose Copy.
Then right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose Paste. Or
right-click on Windows Mail and choose Pin to Start Menu. Or right-click on
Windows Mail and choose Add to Quick Launch, witch will put an icon in your
Taskbar's Quick Launch Toolbar.

Or, right-click the Start button, and choose Properties. Click on
Customize. Put a check next to E-mail link, under the section "Show on
Start Menu", at the bottom of the Customize Start Menu window.

"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>

"Peter" <> wrote in message
news:...
> What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
> OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
> Windows Mail?
> Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
> (create shortcut).
>
> --
> Peter
> Toronto, Canada
> "Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
> news:Pd%Ei.39217$. ..
>> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
>> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
>> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>>
>
Windows Mail under Vista. Why would I ask about an XP problem on
a Vista newsgroup?

I don't see a way to get to Start/All Programs either.

"dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
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> In Start Menu > All Programs, right-click on Windows Mail and choose Copy.
> Then right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose Paste. Or
> right-click on Windows Mail and choose Pin to Start Menu. Or right-click
> on
> Windows Mail and choose Add to Quick Launch, witch will put an icon in
> your
> Taskbar's Quick Launch Toolbar.
>
> Or, right-click the Start button, and choose Properties. Click on
> Customize. Put a check next to E-mail link, under the section "Show on
> Start Menu", at the bottom of the Customize Start Menu window.
>
> "Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
> news:Pd%Ei.39217$. ..
>> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
>> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
>> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>>
>
I don't see the Start Menu or the Start button. When I right-click on
Windows Mail, the list I get does not include offer Pin to Start Menu
or Add to Quick Launch.

Your Taskbar is the bar that runs across the bottom of your screen. On the
far right is a blue orb-shaped "button" with a Windows flag on it. Click on
that Orb, and that will reveal the Start Menu. At the bottom of the Start
Menu is "All Programs". Click on that. Doing that changes the Start Menu,
whereupon you will see shortcuts and folders. Right-click on the Window
Mail shortcut to Copy, Send To, etc...

"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Peter" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
>> OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
>> Windows Mail?
>> Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
>> (create shortcut).
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>> Toronto, Canada
>> "Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
>> news:Pd%Ei.39217$. ..
>>> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
>>> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
>>> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>>>
>>
> Windows Mail under Vista. Why would I ask about an XP problem on
> a Vista newsgroup?
>
> I don't see a way to get to Start/All Programs either.
>

Robert--

I should have added if you aren't just trying to have a shortcut to open
whatever mail program it is you mean on whatever OS you have, (dragging it
from the Start menu by holding down the rt. click and copying as has been
said) but you want the icon as a folder, then just right click the
desktop>new>folder>customize>browse and that's what I meant about going to

C:\Program Files\Win Mail (in Vista) and getting Icons from those folders
and .dlls or

C:\Program Files\Outlook Express (in XP) and doing the same thing.

CH




"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>

Where are you clicking on Windows Mail precisely, and what are you clicking
on? I'm even more bad worser confused now.

CH

"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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>
> "dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
> news:...
>> In Start Menu > All Programs, right-click on Windows Mail and choose
>> Copy.
>> Then right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose Paste. Or
>> right-click on Windows Mail and choose Pin to Start Menu. Or right-click
>> on
>> Windows Mail and choose Add to Quick Launch, witch will put an icon in
>> your
>> Taskbar's Quick Launch Toolbar.
>>
>> Or, right-click the Start button, and choose Properties. Click on
>> Customize. Put a check next to E-mail link, under the section "Show on
>> Start Menu", at the bottom of the Customize Start Menu window.
>>
>> "Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
>> news:Pd%Ei.39217$. ..
>>> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
>>> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
>>> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>>>
>>
> I don't see the Start Menu or the Start button. When I right-click on
> Windows Mail, the list I get does not include offer Pin to Start Menu
> or Add to Quick Launch.
>

Well Robert, I see one way here--but the fundamental question in all this is
what is Robert Miles' objective--tell us (you have not yet in 3 posts) what
you want to get done and we can do it.

This is normally the way I think of using the start menu to go to all
programs, but much of the time I use shortcuts in an IE address bar that
doubles as a run box planted in the task bar. You don't see this?

http://www.powerdonkey.net/images/wi...art_menu_2.jpg

As in the context of this?

http://tinyurl.com/2lscb4

Again what are you trying to get done, Robert?

CH

"Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
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> "Peter" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> What? You can't have Windows Mail and Outlook Express on the same
>> OS....are you talking Vista or XP? Are you talking Windows Live Mail or
>> Windows Mail?
>> Start/All Programs.......right-click Windows Mail and "send to" - desktop
>> (create shortcut).
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>> Toronto, Canada
>> "Robert Miles" <> wrote in message
>> news:Pd%Ei.39217$. ..
>>> How do I install an icon for Windows Mail on my home screen?
>>> Getting to it indirectly by starting Help and Support and searching
>>> for Outlook Express is getting old.
>>>
>>
> Windows Mail under Vista. Why would I ask about an XP problem on
> a Vista newsgroup?
>
> I don't see a way to get to Start/All Programs either.
>

"dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
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> On the far right is a blue orb-shaped "button" with a Windows flag on it.

That would be he far 'left' actually - just to be clear )