windows live mail

I keep trying to update Windows Live Eseential but it tells me to turn on my firewall and it is on. I tried to uninstall and reinstall and it did but didn't load Windows Live Mail. That is the client I use. I loaded Thunderbird and it couldn't find my contacts. So....I restored to 2 days earlier...

I have a situation where I need to run Windows Live Mail in the OFFLINE mode (I'm connected to the internet, but away from my ISP), and the Internet Explorer on ONLINE mode. However, when I change one of them, the other one changes as well. Is there any way to separate them?

Where is the folder that stores the contacts in Windows Live Mail? We are trying to restore after a crash and cannot find the contacts.

Sorry if this has been asked before. I am trying to e mail a picture from windows explorer on a Samsung rv511 with Windows7 Home Premium system. When I select the picture in explorer and select E Mail I get the message attach which I do then nothing happens. This may be of help but when I select...

If I create and save an email to draft folder then let me print it via file pulldown please. I know you can use view -> reading pane and print from there, but for file pulldown to just show "save, save as, and close" but not print is silly. Simple change but would help improve user experience.

Hello everybody, I would like to delete 3 folders in "Windows live mail" under "Storage folders". They are Drafts, Sent items, and Deleted items. Is there a way to do that? Thanks a lot, Peter

Hi Everyone! I'm getting E-Mail messages that are supposed to have images in them but the images are blank. I received 4 messages today from the same sender with images and 3 were OK and on one the images didn't show. He has tried to send the message that didn't work to me 3 times and it...

Can someone direct me as to how to save to disk (either hard disk or SD Card or CD) emails from this program?

Hi After the last Windows update the type in Windows Live Mail went all funny. As you will see in the image this only applies to the application type not the type in the view message window. I did a system restore to before the update and it corrected it. This screwed up another program that...

Whenever I have an appointment in my live calender, whether I set those appointments with Windows Live Mail, or my Windows Phone 7, or the Hotmail website I get an email notification about the appointment. I want those to stop. I clicked the link in the email about changing notifications and i...

Hi I opened up my Live Mail today and my contacts are all missing. It says you have 0 contacts. Yesterday I had dozens. When I redid my computer lately I was pleasantly surprised that even with my computer completely restored to it's original state, when I reinstalled Windows Live Mail all of...

Pictures downloaded to my desktop keep crashing MS Live Mail when I attempt to attach one and also when I attempt to fetch one from Adobe Illustrator. However, if I load any pictures from anywhere else they don't crash. I also downloaded a game to my desktop and when I went to open it up I got...

I just got a new PC with Windows 7 installed and have run into this issue twice, both times with a particular folder - let's call it "UsefulDocuments2" (the actual folder name DOES have a 2 at the end, but there is no folder called "UsefulDocuments"). Sometimes, when I try to view the folder...

How can I manually add to my email contacts list using Windows 7 Live Mail? I apologise if I'm on the wrong section as its my first post. Thanks for any help.

:( Hi all. I have a new Asus laptop which has Windows 7 on it and I am having some problems with Live Mail. I have been using XP on my older computers, so I am by no means up to date with Win. 7. Anyway, a few days after buying my new laptop, and having already setup and been using...

Because I was having a problem with my Verizon email which comes thru Windows Live Mail, I called a Verizon tech. He did not fix the problem I had, but in the process of trying he changed something so that now there is a security symbol on my Windows Live Mail icon and when I try to open it as...

I keep an Outlook data file on my external HDD that I carry between work and home. How do I get it to stop downloading emails twice!? I have three accounts; a Gmail account (which doesn't have this problem), a work account that uses SmarterMail and another account that's set up through Windows...

Hello all I have installed two ssd's in raid 0 configuration all I want to do is tranfer my e-mails from my old C drive, I tried easy transfer but it did not transfer my e-mails or accounts. I did what was previously suggested on this forum, I booted from my old C drive exported my e-mail...

I have had windows 7 installed from an OEM disk for about 6+ months. I have always had auto updates disabled. last night I shutdown the computer just to find 98 updates being installed. I was just a little disappointed, for a couple of reasons. one reason is it seems to take longer to boot after...

Hi As I said in an other post I crashed my computer. In fact I'm still installing stuff. But one of the things that bothered my most was the fact that I lost my contacts in Windows Live Mail. I have tried to find where they were available in my backup files but I couldn't find anything. It's...