Windows Live Mail transfer

The old laptop had Windows XP. There were both Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail used as a mail clients. The new machine is running a newly re-installed Windows Vista. Windows Easy Transfer moved the Outlook Express emails without any problem into Vista's Windows Mail.

I didn't found an appropriate choice in the Windows Easy Transfer for the emails in the Windows Live Mail. I copied  all contents of the folder 'Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\' from the old computer into the folder 'Users\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail' on the new computer. When starting, Windows Live Mail did run a recovery process. Even though the e-mail accounts were preserved, all messages were lost.

After some registry tweaks and numerous trials, I copied the data once again. Now, I removed *.chk, *.log and *.sqm files in Vista's WLM-folder. I deleted the *.chk and *.log files in subdirectories also ( Backup\new\, Calendars\DBStore\, Calendars\DBStore\LogFiles\, Calendars\DBStore\Backup\new\ ). In practice, the files Mail.MSMessageStore and Mail.pat as well as the subdirectories of the accounts and the messages remained. Now after starting the WLM the messages of the POP3 accounts were preserved also.

Windows Live Messenger doesn't start

At Midsummer time, Windows Live Messenger conked out and no longer started up.  There was an error message in the application log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows Live Messenger
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 2010-06-24
Time: 23:17:49
User: N/A
Computer: AOPEN77
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Windows Live Messenger ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: msnmsgr.exe; 14.0.8089.726; 4a6ce533; wldcore.dll; 14.0.8089.726; 4a6ce514; 0; 00002ee5.


I downloaded the latest version and installed it, but the result was the same:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows Live Messenger
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 2010-06-29
Time: 21:56:58
User: N/A
Computer: AOPEN77
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Windows Live Messenger ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: msnmsgr.exe; 14.0.8117.416; 4bc935af; wldcore.dll; 14.0.8117.416; 4bc93503; 0; 00002ee5.


Google helped again.  A nickname bouke had found the solution.

I renamed the key UTL -> UTL_ in the registry path HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<number>\ and the problem was solved.  My avatar disappeared as a result of this, but it was a small problem.