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
    2021-03-11T22:34:13+00:00

    It worked for me on Mar 11, 2020. Thanks so much!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-03T03:14:36+00:00

    Thank you. These steps worked for me as well.

    Gary Matthews

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-25T15:16:32+00:00

    Hi, this recommendation has been posted for weeks yet, like many others, I get to find the windowsLiveMail tag - and it doesn't exist.

    Am I missing it/is it somewhere else/is there another solution, haven't had Windows Live Mail since Oct 2020 update...?

    Exasperating!!!

    Hi. Are you sure Windows Live Mail is still installed on your machine? Perhaps try reinstalling it via think link:

    https://download.cnet.com/Windows-Live-Essentials-2012/3000-20418\_4-10805747.html

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-25T13:05:23+00:00

    Hi, this recommendation has been posted for weeks yet, like many others, I get to find the windowsLiveMail tag - and it doesn't exist.

    Am I missing it/is it somewhere else/is there another solution, haven't had Windows Live Mail since Oct 2020 update...?

    Exasperating!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-24T02:00:15+00:00

    Those instructions fixed mine..........but some finer details were left off. Hopefully these will help some people.

    When you go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>windowsLive Mail, right click and select NEW......Do this 3 times.......One for each of the Recreate files........DO NOT TYPE =1 in the description.

    After you have the three new files showing, double click on each of them......a box will appear.......change the VALUE DATA to 1 against HEXADECIMAL

    That should be it.

    It worked for me

    Thanks but I don't have Windows Live Mail in there.

    Do I make one?

    Is this for Windows 10 Mail program?

    I don't have Live Mail

    thanks

    Kalyan

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