My wife and I moved to a different city about a week ago and, as part of our transition plan, we adopted Gmail as our email until we had established our email with a local service provider. Pre-move and pre-Gmail we were using Windows Live mail and our computer is Windows 7.
Everything works fine except that a couple of days ago our desktop suddenly became filled with read email icons with windows live mail properties. The shortcut symbol is not part of the icon.
Does anyone know what has happened and how do I remove the icons without deleting the actual associated emails?
Why can’t you continue using the Windows Live mail after the move?
I’m kind of confused about this… so your plan is to inform all your contacts twice that you’re moving emails? (Once to Gmail, then again to your ISP’s) in only a couple of weeks? Won’t that just annoy everybody, especially when Windows Live mail works from every ISP anyway? (And so does Gmail, for that matter.)
Do you know for sure your wife (or someone else using the computer) isn’t using the “Save” function in Live Mail to save the emails, and putting them on the desktop? That sounds the most likely.
Other than that, Bob’s theory that the email client somehow got set to use your desktop for its local storage seems most likely, but most email client store every email in a single large file instead of making a new file for each email. So I’m not sure that pans out.