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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.
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I agree wholeheartedly, setting up Windows Live Mail on this Windows 8 laptop is a real pain. On my old Windows XP desktop it was a piece of cake. Worked perfect, new where it was all the time. Why is it, it can't be the same on this new high tech "much improved" Windows 8 Laptop.
From the Windows Live Essentials download page I opted to download just the Windows Live Mail. Not the Writer or the rest of it. BUT where is it??? Did it actually download or what? So, I go back to the Windows Live Essentials download page and attempt the download again and it tells me I have already installed Windows Live Mail. Really? Then where was it hid and why? This "really wonderful" Windows 8 laptop has no "Start" button so we can't access the Programs ect. and be able to locate anything. Yup, that was real great improvement. Not!
When there is an improvement made, why can't an actual improvement come with it? ...........
'''''''''' Well, I finally located where it was (even without a Start button) and man does the new format really suck from the format and ease of use on my XP desktop.
New and improved? New, yes. Improved? Not in the slightest.
"When something works, why fix it?
