I don’t know about you, but I like to spice up my surroundings with a little color. A white wall in a room or a white dinner plate on a table is really just the perfect canvas for something colorful – some stripes of paint or a great tomato sauce (you choose which goes on the wall and which on the plate J).
I like to have the same experience on my computer – let’s be honest, I spend far more hours staring at the screen than I do that wall or that plate – and it’s been both fun and useful for me to personalize the colors in Windows Live Mail. In the latest build of Mail, there are three areas you can play with and customize colors for:
1. The frame
2. Each email account header & the email titles
3. Each calendar & the events associated with it
Here’s an example of how my email account list looks:
I’ve made the frame green (using this button on the toolbar: 
) and then colorized each account differently. Oooh, pretty.
I find the colors both fun & useful – having the accounts be different colors helps reinforce for me which account I’m looking at, plus the email subject line matches the account color, so even when I’m reading mail I know which account I’m looking at. Notice how the purple subject line here matches the purple of my Live account that this mail was sent to. Super handy.
The new calendar also supports fun & useful colorization. By giving each calendar its own color, it’s simple for me to look at my upcoming day, week, or month and know what events are associated with which part of my family (me or my daughters, for example) and what other critical stuff is coming up (don’t forget to send the Christmas cards!).
Here’s what my calendar looks like:
Enjoy making Windows Live Mail match your color personality.
Tanja, Windows Live Mail PM
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