Install Windows live mail on Windows 8.

Anonymous
2013-03-13T19:01:11+00:00

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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Anonymous
2013-03-24T01:03:37+00:00

Hi B Looney,

Thank you for your reply.

  1. Are you referring to mail app in Windows 8?
  2. Are you trying to use Windows Live mail instead of mail app?

Windows Live Mail.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-other-programs

Hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-03T20:29:52+00:00

    That really depends on the email.  AOL has a web based program, but also pop3 still, I believe.  If it were Pop3 and you already downloaded the emails without keeping a copy on the server, then, yes, if you don't remember the password and cannot recover it (which is odd), then they would be lost.  

    If it is a web-based email than you will be much more likely to get the emails back as they are stored on the server until you physically delete them.  I would suggest googling your email program (AOL) and looking for answers that way (or calling).

    I don't have enough details from you to walk you through the steps.  

    Hope you recover your email.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-20T04:56:10+00:00

    Phyllis A 283

    I found Windows Live Mail on the internet, downloaded to my laptop then deleted the Essential program.  Much better!  I didn't find any valid help from MS, as well.

    Thank you. I'll try that.  Ganesh and the other guy from Microsoft seem incredibly dense.  They keep trying to steer us back to the horrible new version of mail in essentials.  It is incredibly horrible, especially the people or contacts area in which it is impossible to search on anything at all in the application and in the ad driven internet version, only on the name, not on any of the other fields. 

    Unreal how out of touch Microsoft is, uncaring - they couldn't be that stupid.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-20T04:59:00+00:00

    This still doesn't help with the original issue - using the previous Windows Live instead of the horrible Mail.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-03-20T05:02:15+00:00

    Don't you get it?  What we want to do is not use the horrible Mail program, neither the web portal to Hotmail nor the Mail program are any good.  Especially bad is the contacts section which has next to no, or in Mail, no search capabilities.

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