Advice on opening .eml files

[+Piecemeal]

OK, so here's the deal with my dilemma.

 

I'm currently setting up my new desktop with the programs and apps that I had in the old one. I want to install the SF2 series that I purchased but here's the problem:

The default Windows Mail app on Windows 10 has no settings function for me put in the POP3/SMTL settings, etc., from my broadband provider. The only thing I have relating to my purchases on ThirdWire are some .eml files on a USB stick but as I can't access my provider e-mail address I can't download and install any ThirdWire games or DLCs that I purchased!

I've also contacted support@thirdwire.com but have received no reply as yet.

 

Anybody got ideas?

 

[Nyghtfall]

I'm not fully understanding your issue, but you can open .eml-files with notepad to find the actual content of the email (somewhere in the middle). Otherwise Windows Live Mail opens them too (At least on Windows 7). If nothing works for you, I guess finding a person you trust, that uses a Microsoft email program could import it and then resent/print it for you.

Edited March 13, 2016 by Nyghtfall

[+Piecemeal]

And there was me til 2am this morning trying to sort this sh*t out. Never thought of using Notepad! Installing games now as I type.

 

Downside of Windows 10 - more of a pain in the ass the more I get to dislike it - just like my ex wife

Edited March 13, 2016 by Piecemeal

[+daddyairplanes]

Its not bad, but not the modrrn marvel of a wondrrous age MS promised either. 5 out of 9 systems in my house are now running 10, although my primary systrm has updates turned of so as to stay Win7. Loading SF2 on an upgraded system of my wife's that I took over. Definately a different setup than 7, but not necessarily bad.

[+Piecemeal]

Its not bad, but not the modrrn marvel of a wondrrous age MS promised either. 5 out of 9 systems in my house are now running 10, although my primary systrm has updates turned of so as to stay Win7. Loading SF2 on an upgraded system of my wife's that I took over. Definately a different setup than 7, but not necessarily bad.

 

Agreed, but the over simplification of the Windows Mail app, especially in the settings, made it impossible for me to sync it with my broadband provider's mail server. If I could have done that in the first place I wouldn't have found myself in a position where I was almost screaming at the ceiling last night out of frustration!

The file path navigation setup is also a lot different which of course makes it all the more confusing until you get used to it.

Edited March 13, 2016 by Piecemeal