You may find the Mail icon missing from the Control Panel when trying to setup a mail account for Outlook or Outlook Express. This seems to be a “problem” in Vista 64-bit Edition. I’ve seen a lot of complicated solutions for this, but usually it’s quite simple. Vista 64-bit stores 32-bit Control Panel items in a different section (LAME!). When you’re in the Control Panel, click on Classic View. Then click on “View 32-bit Control Panel Items”. Your missing Mail icon should be in there, among other things. It only took me 30 minutes to find something so simple. I thought Vista was supposed to make things “easier”. What a piece of junk!
In case you can’t find the Mail icon with this solution, the other thing you can do is navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12
Double-click on MLCFG32.CPL, and that will also bring up the mail configuration. You can create a shortcut to this on your desktop or something. I’m assuming a repair install of Microsoft Office will fix this particular issue if the first fix doesn’t work, but I haven’t tried it.
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