Outlook Express 6 (OE6) for Win7‎

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from: http://sites.google.com/site/simpledotn ... -windows-7
Wicky Hu

Outlook Express 6 (OE6) for Windows Vista,Windows 7,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 R2

If you have tried Outlook 2010/2007/2003, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Becky, The Bat, Foxmail, Dream Mail ..., and still love Outlook Express 6, and still think it's your favorite email client, then this is the solution for you.

HOW IT WORKS:
The reason that OE6 cannot run in Vista or newer system, is Microsoft make some OE6 core DLLs incompatible, something called "DLL HELL".
Mainly these files: inetcomm.dll, msoert2.dll, msoeacct.dll, directdb.dll.
However, we cannot simply replace the system DLLs because that may make system or some applications stop working.
So the trick is to let OE6 load old DLLs in current directory when running, and leave system DLLs untouched, then everything should be ok.
The way to let this happen is to hijack NtQueryValueKey of ntdll.dll for OE6 process, then change the return Path to current directory if needed.
Microsoft provide a free tool to do this kind of job, so we just use it: Detours.

HOW TO USE:
1. extract the zip file to a directory
2. run Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as administrator
3. run setup.bat in the Command Prompt
3. if you want to save password, you need to replace Protected Storage service with writable version:
4. start msimn.exe

DOWNLOAD:
See attachments

HISTORY:
Version 0.2:
Fixed issue: "The command failed to execute" error when opening attachement; attachment cannot be saved
Fixed inproper "HOW TO USE" steps

Version 0.1:
first release

Writable Protected Storage Service for Win7

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Protected Storage Service for Windows Vista,Windows 7,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 R2

According to MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb432403(VS.85).aspx
[Protected Storage (Pstore) is available for use in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. It is only available for read-only operations in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, but may be unavailable in subsequent versions. Pstore uses an older implementation of data protection. Developers are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the stronger data protection provided by the CryptProtectData and CryptUnprotectData functions.]

So if you would like to use legacy software which saves password with Protected Storage in Vista or newer Windows, it may fail to work.

This package will replace the read-only Protected Storage service with read-write enabled version.

HOW TO USE:
1. Extract the zip file to a directory
2. run Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as administrator
3. run setup.bat in the Command Prompt
4. reboot windows
5. check Protected Storage service to see whether it runs ok

DOWNLOAD:
See attachments

HISTORY:
Version 0.2:
Fixed inproper "HOW TO USE" steps

Version 0.1:
first release