Windows Live Mail stopped working after last Windows 10 update

Anonymous
2020-08-20T19:02:14+00:00

Since the last update of Windows 10, when I open Windows Live Mail every message produces "Message cannot be displayed." I tried running the "repair" utility, but nothing changed. Is this a widespread issue? I really liked Live Mail and had a lot of messages saved that I can no longer access. HELP!

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-01T04:02:17+00:00

    Hi JamesMcVoy Good day.

    I am Louie, a Microsoft Community member and a fellow Windows 10 user like you. I hope I can help you on your concern.

    Its possible the Windows Live Mail got corrupted after the update, please perform the following below in the registry:

    1. click Windows Key + R (to open run)
    2. in the run type and enter: REGEDIT
    3. Go to Computer > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows Live Mail
    4. Create these 3 DWORD entries (if they didnt exist) or change to 1 if they exist

    RecreateFolderIndex = 1
    RecreateStreamIndex = 1
    RecreateUIDLIndex = 1

    1. Restart Windows Live Mail.

    Sincerely
    Louie

    --- Updated on 5/1/21 and no emails could be received/sent. Did exactly as instructions above. Worked perfectly! Thank you Louie.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-03T17:55:14+00:00

    I've got as afar as Live - but no live mail just Roaming

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-03T18:06:53+00:00

    Louie, I have to do this manually several times a day because the registry changes the DWORD values back to 0.  I also cannot send attachments in my emails.  Any help would certainly be appreciated.  Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-03T19:20:39+00:00

    What I mean by crash, it will close for no reason.

    When I open it back it will have a lot of blank  emails, that I have deleted, back in the inbox.

    They say that the content could not be found.

    This problem started about a week or ten days ago and happens often.

    The suggested fix does not work in my case. The words are listed but when I change the 0 to 1 they change back to zero.

    Any suggestions on this problem?

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-13T08:41:10+00:00

    Same here. windows 10 is an international disaster and a complete waste of money. Utter childish ****.

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