Update for Windows Live Essentials Mail 2012 (KB3093594) kills WLM 2012

I guess I'm relatively lucky.  Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3564.1216) is working relatively well on my Win 7 Pro desktop ... with one exception.

The batch of Windows Updates I installed on Jan. 23 included KB 3093594.  Since that date, one of my Hotmail accounts hasn't downloaded any messages from the server.  A separate Hotmail account and an Outlook.com account seem to continue working and syncing normally.  

Guess I could try to remove that update, or to switch switch that account to an IMAP account as suggested here, but I'm still holding out hope that all will be made right eventually.  

I'm utterly non-technie and so I am worried about the consequences of trying to un-update or delete/change an account.  Would hate to lose everything, or even some things.  

Looking forward to any counsel from wiser participants.

Thank you.

Hi, this thread has been relatively quiet for a while.  I, too, am a non-techie like yourself.  I have windows 10 and after I removed the patch that Microsoft said to download, windows live mail 2012 has been working fine.  Whether that will change in the future, I don't know.  But right now its working so I'm leaving everything status quo...

I have W7 Home and have 1 Outlook and 3 Hotmail accounts on WLM2012. All are functioning normal. I realize that may change in an instant in the top secret labs of MS. What I did: 1) I did not download and install that Update from the email in December. MS hasn't done something as stupid as an email linked update since the days of the old MSN Network. 2) I didn't download the new improved update later in December, which caused more problems. Typical of the old updates in the days of W95/W98. 3) And I didn't download that same KB when it appeared in Windows Updates. I just love how MS tucked it in there with all the security updates, just like that W10 advertising update that left an idiot icon in the taskbar. Feels as tho MS is repeating all of AOL's insanity of the 90s, and might end up being as irrelevant as AOL is today.

"NOW he tells me."  Wish't I were as adept as you in protecting myself.  I shall proactively search Windows forums for Paul M999 posts in the future.  

I take some comfort that I dodged Windows 8 and paid a substantial premium to get Win 7 machines.  And, I'm glad I've resisted the enticements for Win 10.

How embarrassing it must be for MS to need multiple updates to fully resolve a problem MS created that affects only MS' own e-mail platforms (and their latest and greatest operating system).

This post is somewhat misleading as the discussion relates to Windows Live Mail 2012, whether it is running on Windows 7, Windows 8(.1) or Windows 10.