Hello enedeavor,
I haven't explained the bug with progress panel in details, sorry. This is how you can see it:
Open the Windows Mail and after it finished to check the last mails, double-click on the right message on the status bar (let's assume that it shows "No new messages"). You will see the progress panel with the results of last check. Note the button
"Details >>" or "<< Details". This panel has two looks: default compact with the progress indicator only and expanded with Tasks and Errors tabs. By default, it should not show the lower tabs when all operations were successful, and should switch to expanded only when some errors occurred or user switched it manually by pressing "Details >>".
However, because of the bug, the expanded state, once it happened, cannot be switched back to default compact permanently. So, even if you press "<< Details" and the panel becomes compact, when you exit WM and launch it again, the panel will be opened expanded. You cannot change it to compact look by default after any single error happened. So, need to reset its default look manually by modifying the Registry (so I added that simple reg file).
Another note from my experience: in the instruction (6) you suggest to copy the file msidcrl30.dll to System32 directory. I think this is a bit excessive, this file can be copied to Windows Mail directory instead like msoe.dll etc. Although on Windows 7 it's a system DLL, on Windows 8 it can be "demoted" and counted as local DLL because it is not used by any other system program. At least in my Windows 8.1 and without Calendar installed. Could you try the same on your systems, it would be interesting to know?
I haven't explained the bug with progress panel in details, sorry. This is how you can see it:
Open the Windows Mail and after it finished to check the last mails, double-click on the right message on the status bar (let's assume that it shows "No new messages"). You will see the progress panel with the results of last check. Note the button
"Details >>" or "<< Details". This panel has two looks: default compact with the progress indicator only and expanded with Tasks and Errors tabs. By default, it should not show the lower tabs when all operations were successful, and should switch to expanded only when some errors occurred or user switched it manually by pressing "Details >>".
However, because of the bug, the expanded state, once it happened, cannot be switched back to default compact permanently. So, even if you press "<< Details" and the panel becomes compact, when you exit WM and launch it again, the panel will be opened expanded. You cannot change it to compact look by default after any single error happened. So, need to reset its default look manually by modifying the Registry (so I added that simple reg file).
Another note from my experience: in the instruction (6) you suggest to copy the file msidcrl30.dll to System32 directory. I think this is a bit excessive, this file can be copied to Windows Mail directory instead like msoe.dll etc. Although on Windows 7 it's a system DLL, on Windows 8 it can be "demoted" and counted as local DLL because it is not used by any other system program. At least in my Windows 8.1 and without Calendar installed. Could you try the same on your systems, it would be interesting to know?