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We have received reports that the Windows Live Mail update- KB KB3093594, is causing stability issues for many of our customers running Windows Live Mail 2012.
Thank you for reporting this issue.
We have identified the root cause and are currently working on a fix that addresses the issue for impacted users on applicable platforms.
Please visit Update for Windows Live Essentials Mail 2012 or this thread for the latest updates.
***Update Dec 20^th^
Sorry for the delay in posting this update.
On Dec 17^th^we rereleased the Windows Live Mail update KB3093594. For users who had previously installed this update and were experiencing a crash when launching the Windows Live Mail app, please download and re-install KB3093594 and this issue should be resolved.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3093594
Some users have independently reported a separate issue with sync of mail with attachments that we continue to investigate.
Update 1 February 2016
(posted as Issues 3 under Known issues ... for KB3093594 rev. 6.0)
Some customers have reported other issues with the release on December 17, 2015. This update is no longer being offered while Microsoft investigates these issues further. Server interactions will remain supported during this investigation.
NB: links to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49486 will not work 
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To avoid confusion & duplication of effort, please post any/all further follow-up in replies to your own, new thread => http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/what-are-you-supposed-to-do-with-windows-live/5f9bf730-f05d-42ed-87a1-3cd034bd1136
I have had the same problems as several of the users who posted here. I am using Windows 7. When first I installed the update my inbox would download and show new emails but would include emails I had previously read and deleted from Windows Live Mail. Then I noticed all emails I sent would show as emails addressed to me in my sent emails folder, finally (and last) I could not download any new emails...so now I must log in to my email account online to access new emails on my hotmail account.
Unbelievable isn't it? They send out updates that immediately cause the application to crash. You can not find the update anywhere after you install it? You can't remove it. You have to uninstall and reinstall to get rid of thing that does not work?
Did you catch the post before yours from 12/18
The one fromhttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/c406c5f3-5bf2-47bb-afc2-488cf11a9357PA Bear MS MVP on Dec 17 telling me to post to my own thread to AVOID CONFUSION?
TomS
I have the same issue with my name showing in the "To" column since I installed the update on 12th December. The new version of the update released on 17th December has not made any difference.
I am running Windows 8.1 -- No email from my hotmail account is coming in. I am getting my other pop3 email in windows Live Mail but not my hotmail emails. I have to go to the Internet and go to outlook.com to see them and I hate that interface with a passion!
Please get this fixed and let us keep Windows Live Mail 2012 -- enough is enough....
Thank you
Kathy O.
