Windows Vista – Missing Mail icon

Things have moved in Windows Vista 64 bit and sometimes it’s hard to find things you know should be there.

One item that is hard to find is the Mail icon that you need to use to add profiles for Outlook, for example. You’ll find it in the Control Panel but not alongside all the other icons. Instead, click the View 32-bit Control Panel Items View 32-bit Control Panel Items group. There you will find Mail alongside other options like Java, QuickTime and some others.

Vale PowerPoint features

Hmm - there is good and bad in everything I presume but I'm particularly bummed by the fact that a couple of the tools that I have grown to love in PowerPoint over the years have been removed from the new PowerPoint 2007. Well, perhaps love is too strong a word, but I liked them a lot and they're gone.

Gone is the AutoContent Wizard but you can find much of its functionality in templates. There's no broadcast feature and no macro recorder (but you can still use macros), and no title master - but there's a new title layout which really makes better sense. All this I could live without, what I'll miss is the Speaker Notes tool which let you record notes while making a presentation which you could save later on. Gone too is the summary slide tool which really is a big omission - summaries were a great way to create an agenda so folks knew what they'd be learning... poor choice of tools to go in my book.