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Original title: windows mail on W8 to windows live mail?
I hate the mail program on my new laptop, Windows 8. How can I change the email program to Windows Live Mail as I use with Windows 7?
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Hi B Looney,
Thank you for your reply.
Windows Live Mail.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-other-programs
Hope this helps.
thank you for your help
Do a search for Windows Live Mail for Windows 8. (It should be Windows Essentials 2012) Then when you have it download it and run it. When you open the program it will say whatever folder you are in plus it will say Windows Live Mail. This is funny but the older version had the folder then Windows Live Mail at the topleft. With this one it shows the folder and Windows Live Mail centered at the top.
Original title: windows mail on W8 to windows live mail?
I hate the mail program on my new laptop, Windows 8. How can I change the email program to Windows Live Mail as I use with Windows 7?
Thanks for sharing. I eventually installed Windows Live Essentials too. Windows Live Mail works well enough. The only real problem I have is that I didn't know that I wouldn't be able to Restore my mail folders from the image backup, I should have Exported them all. So all my history is lost.
