Outlook 2007 profiles in vista

[warnockm]

I am using outlook w/ a few POP3 accounts. I'd like to add an Exchange account and need to add a new profile. I'm having trouble finding the Mail icon in control panel. I'm following these instructions:

http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=3593

i'm running Office 2007 and Vista Business. I looked for the Mail icon in Control Panel (set to classic) and i tried looking under User ACcounts but there is no mail icon there. Any idea how to "unhide" this?

 

[smah]

click the Windows Start orb, type mail

 

[warnockm]

I think we are talking about two different things. running "mail" opens out the new version of outlook express. I'm trying to run the Mail Setup for Outlook 2007.

 

[smah]

When using Vista, once you click the Start orb, you'll find the cursor is already in the search field - type mail and you'll see the control panel applet in the programs section of the results.

 

[smah]

I see - I never actually said to hit enter. If you type mail then the enter key, OE opens, which, I agree isn't what you want.

 

[warnockm]

Oh, sorry, kinda new to vista. Yes, i can search for "mail" but only Windows Mail and a few other programs with "mail" in the name show up. The "mail" icon in your screenshot doesn't appear.

 

[smah]

Does your account have administrative privileges? (I assume so, since you can get to Control Panel).

When using the classic view of control panel, I find the mail applet where it normally is - between keyboard & mouse. When using the Vista style control panel, I find it under User Accounts. Are all your other Control Panel functions & feature behaving normally? The only conditions that I can come up with to make the Outlook Profile applet not visible, is when Outlook isn't installed/configured.

Although not for Outlook 2007, this looks promising:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937763/en-us

For Outlook 2007, the control panel applet seems to be at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\mlcfg32.cpl

 

[warnockm]

The direct link to the file opened it. THANKS!!!