(Potentially) good news though -- I found the location of the email databases, and for the Inbox.dbx file, it says it's 15MB, even though I only kept 3 emails in the inbox. Anyway I opened that file up in Notepad++ and I can see all my old e-mails, even though when I import that file into Thunderbird, it doesn't import them.
So I played around with Windows Live Mail, and after hiding that big clunky ribbon and changing the default fonts, I actually like it -- the interface looks cleaner and more polished than Thunderbird's.
However, I don't think I'm going to continue using it. Why? The fonts are blurry! I have the same problem with IE9. And what's weird is, if I resize the WLM window even by just a pixel, the blurriness goes away. But then it comes back upon continued use.
Strange, when I press Ctrl T, the new tab comes up instantly. How much ram do you have, what type of harddrive are you running and is anything running heavily in the background? Also, the aero desktop runs much faster than the old vista basic look and feel in my opinion.
Have you tried disabling the hardware rendering in IE9 yet? That could be the cause of the blurry text which in turn would be caused by the video driver. Also, what processor are you using?
The other thing I don't like about WLM (and IE9, and a lot of Microsoft products): the way they handle text selection. In Opera, Chrome, FF, Thunderbird, and most other apps, if you click and drag horizontally to select text on a single line, the text will be selected on a character-by-character basis. On the other hand, WLM, IE9, and a lot of other Microsoft apps have "hungry selection", where text is selected more of on a word-by-word basis, and try as you might you usually can't select individual characters.
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Hmm... there's gotta be a way to extract them?
However, I don't think I'm going to continue using it. Why? The fonts are blurry! I have the same problem with IE9. And what's weird is, if I resize the WLM window even by just a pixel, the blurriness goes away. But then it comes back upon continued use.
Weird.
Have you tried disabling the hardware rendering in IE9 yet? That could be the cause of the blurry text which in turn would be caused by the video driver. Also, what processor are you using?