[gui-talk] Navigating in Windows Mail

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I've just done away with Windows mail because of all its problems. 
Thunderbird has been a much better solution. However, there is an answer 
to your contact lockup problem.

The reason the contacts window locks up is due to a bug in Microsoft and 
the templates used. Even if you unload your screen reader and load 
Narrator instead, it will fail. The work around for this to work 
properly follows:

1. Open your contacts folder, but do not press any arrow keys.

2. Press alt-v, then f for the folder template dialog box.

3. Choose the "all" template which should be the first one in the list.

4. Press enter.

Now, your contacts window will be using the all documents template 
instead of the contacts template and you will not experience any more 
lockups.


Ray Foret jr said the following on 4/1/2008 9:27 AM:
> Wayne,
> 
>     I've experienced the very same issue you Aare.  I just bought my new 
> Acer Laptop from Best Buy with Vista, and, exactly the same thing is 
> happening to me.  In fact, I no longer bother with message filtering rules 
> just because have no work around for this problem yet.  It's one of the 
> things I want to talk to FS about today.  Also, I'm having the issue that 
> when I go in to my contact list from inside Windows mail, I have trouble 
> navigating up and down the list.  In fact, more often than not, when I press 
> the down arrow to go to the next contact from the top of the list, Contacts 
> fails to respond.  I usually get a Microsoft windows error message that says 
> "Contacts is not responding...".  It gives me the usual dialog about closing 
> down the program or restarting it.  You will have noticed that contacts is a 
> part of Vista itself and not of Windows Mail proper.  The Microsoft web site 
> seems to have no information on this problem.  Also, I've noticed that JAWS 
> won't save my settings when I'm in Windows mail and I press insert+v and 
> change something in  that list.  Worst of all, I noticed that when I plug 
> something in to the line in jack to make a recording, I cannot hear the 
> sound coming back to me from the speakers.  If this is normal, than I'm 
> screwed.  How can I record reliably if I can't hear the audio coming in to 
> my card?  Anyhow, these are just a few of the things I'm finding out.
> 
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
> Phone:
> 985-360-3375
> e-mail:
> rforetjratcomcastdotnet
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at austin.rr.com>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:46 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] Navigating in Windows Mail
> 
> 
> Greetings all. I got my new Windows Vista Home Premium machine last week and 
> have mostly enjoyed what I've found. I've been pleasantly surprised about 
> some things and am confused on others. For instance, in Windows Mail, I'm no 
> longer able to simply move up and down the tree view and read the status bar 
> for new messages in that folder. WM keeps insisting on moving me into the 
> folder if it has any messages at all, new or old. Is there any way to alter 
> this behavior, or am I stuck to pressing extra tabs when I go into a folder 
> that I don't want to read messages in? I tend to save messages for later 
> reading for a variety of reasons.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Wayne
> 
> My blog:
> http://wayneism.blogspot.com
> My websites:
> www.wayneism.com
> www.whitecaneday.org
> 
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