Windows Live Mail and Calendars

I am having the same issue with Windows Live Mail not connecting with the Outlook.com (preview).

This thread is about a specific error that some users were seeing: *There was an error when attempting to connect to the Windows Live Calendar service.*Is this what you mean by not connecting with the Outlook.com (preview)?

I have been told that an upgrade for Windows Live Mail is coming sometime in the future.  I am skeptical about that.

Where did you learn about that?

If there is some solution, please post it as this is aggravating.

Any solution will depend on what your problem is; the more details you give, the easier it will be to help you. If you see error messages, please quote them verbatim. We also need to know which version of the program you're using on which operating system.

After clicking "Stop signing in", clicking on Send/Receive no longer causes the crash; it appears to do nothing unless an email account is specifically selected via the drop-down.

We changed a few settings early on, so you'll have to change them back again to restore the email functionality you had before. Revisit steps 3, 4 and 5 under Phase I in my reply to Joe a couple of days ago and reverse the changes you made then.

I don't think you'll see the crash again after you clicked Stop signing in- that's the one that prevents the calendar from trying to synchronize.

I am having the same issue with Windows Live Mail not connecting with the Outlook.com (preview).

I have been told that an upgrade for Windows Live Mail is coming sometime in the future.  I am skeptical about that.

If there is some solution, please post it as this is aggravating.

I use POP3 so it may not be relevant, but I can send and receive emails fine with the workaround to avoid automatic updates at startup or periodically.   After clicking "Stop signing in", clicking on Send/Receive no longer causes the crash; it appears to do nothing unless an email account is specifically selected via the drop-down.  If the Send/Receive drop-down is used, email updates fine.  I can live without the calendar updates, so I'm good for now, but it will be nice when the calendar and contacts syncing is back.  Thanks.

... this problem has appeared since the upgrade to WIN10 was announced.

Which problem? Has your account been upgraded to Outlook Mail (Preview)?

I have tried your solution without success.

I don't think I've posted any solution! If you read the entire thread, you'll see that some helpful users have been carrying out some tests to find out what's going wrong after applying the patch that's supposed to correct the faults that arise after the Microsoft Account has been upgraded. So far, we've only seen Windows 10 users having trouble.