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

Just some additional tips:

You can use Cortana to find programs. Just start typing in her search box and keep an eye out for things she finds while you type. And to run things as an Administrator, just right-click on any item and select "Run as administrator".

You can right-click on pretty much anything - in the Start Menu or Taskbar... You'll find that you have many options to help speed you on your way. My favorite is seeing what files you've opened recently with a program. Very handy. :)

Right-click the Start button. There you will see the option for a Command Prompt (Admin). That's the one you need to run. :)

PS: Then Right-Click anywhere on the title bar and select Edit>Paste to paste the long command string.

I can't find anywhere in the Start menu to "run" the command prompt.  I'm on Windows 10. Can anyone tell me how to find  where in the Start menu I can find the place to run a command prompt?

That's the thing, though. It WAS a valid Microsoft patch. I for one would really like to know the story behind the release of that email, the one that horribly described who or what needed to apply it. It certainly didn't do anything to help curb the desire that some people have to continue gutting the built-in systems that are actually there to help protect and keep their OS up-to-date. They're now more apt to continue shutting down and hacking things to keep from getting what they perceive to be bad updates from Microsoft. Ironic then that the very things that they meant to help protect us will only end up driving people to make drastic changes to their system that will only eventually end up biting them in the end...

Hi duber432. I found it on other sites (and see it is also in this topic)

1. I used Start menu>Run and pasted this and it uninstalled the patch. To play safe I also did a repair of WLM 2012 afterwards via Control Panel Programs & Features (i clicked on the WLM 2012 entry and selected repair.

msiexec /package {B775C26B-EAA8-4A11-ACBF-76E52DF6B805} /uninstall {342DCD5D-5946-453B-97AC-D53B7662EDF5}

2. AFTER my last (ONLY) post in this Topic I tried to setup up my Hotmail account using IMAPand it is working perfectly (IMAP I find it a little slower updating folders than Delta sync

I am no expert on IMAP or server settings. I am guessing if MS does not switch that off as well then my Hotmail will work via IMAP without needing the patch.

Maybe a more knowledgable person than me will be kind enough to  confirm/deny please

I found online and am using the following settings

Incoming mail (IMAP):    imap-mail.outlook.com   (Port 993)

I ticked "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)

Outgoing mail (SMTP):   smtp-mail.outlook.com   (Port 587)

I ticked "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)

Under "Outgoing Mail server" I ticked "My server requires authentication"

When folders were added to WLM there were some (sort of) duplicate folders:   Sent and Sent Items,  Junk and Junk Items and Delete and Delete Items (I deleted the folders with items in their name having already just gone online and deleting the same folders online as in WLM 2012 (Note in both cases ONLY the folders labelled "... items" were allowed to be deleted (delete option was greyed out for all the other folders).

As I said I do not understand IMAP and its various setting, or its Properties IMAP tab (under the right click properties, so I can only say what I did and It is working perfectly so far. I do not know if necessary or very necessary (Once again maybe some kind soul can enlighten/educate me) so here goes:

In that WLM 2012 (Hotmail Account's Properties> IMAP tab under the "special folders" section there were ( I am trying hard to remember) for the Sent, Delete and Junk path entries the associated names were initially Sent Items, Junk items and Delete items. I changed them to just Sent, Junk and Delete. My thinking (rightly or wrongly) was MAYBE it was these causing the extra 3 folders and if not not maybe if not changed the 3 extra folder will be added again.

The "Store special folders on IMAP server" option was TICKED by default and I have left it ticked. I again have no idea if this section is really needed or if it should be unticked.

Anyway I am able to send receive my Hotmail emails without issue, except as I said ,updating the various folders with (deleted or sent for example is a little slower than Delta sync was (but no slower than my other non MS IMAP email account s in WLM 2012