Windows Live Mail cannot display message after Windows 10 update

FIXED!  TESTED, FIXED!!!!

Thanks to our German colleague, WLMUSER2004

The actual response on the Microsoft forum follows:

https://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/...2-7fe6fdba642c

Simple fix, Worked for me! WLM gets corrupted during the update.

Regedit:

In the registry under

Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows Live Mail

Create these 3 32-bit DWORD entries (were not available for me) or change to 1 if they exist

RecreateFolderIndex = 1

RecreateStreamIndex = 1

RecreateUIDLIndex = 1

Restart Windows Live Mail. Then the message display goes back to normal for me and the 3 values ​​in the registry are reset to 0. Can be left as it is.

SCREW YOU MICROSOFT!  Stop trying to break legacy software if the replacement you offer is awful!

Hi John,

Just updated win 10 yesterday now I'm having the same issue. Is it possible for you to break these instructions down in PC for dummies format. I am OK with doing things on my PC with instructions. I built my own about 10 years ago and still going strong. I need help with the programming part.

Thanks so much in advance if you can,

Dan

Worked for me. You are a legend, thanks

OK John, seems we've got a winner here, worked as magic, thank you!

WLM is easy to use, simple and yet cover pretty much all I need from the email nowadays

I also wish they would just work on get it updated

I lied, I cannot access gmail from WLM and have not been able to since April.  Earlier I tried to acess by updating the password in WLM, and WLM said it synchronized at first, don't know why.  Lucky I don't use gmail for anything except my android devices.  Gmail should allow you so specifically allow certain clients for access and still keep 2-step authorization on, but they don't, and I don't need some hacker janking my cell phone accounts.

My suggestion to all is to ditch gmail as your main email address.  It's a terrible email service.  I use zoho.com.  Free, easy, and they do not force you to use a worthless spam filter.  I switched from hotmail to zoho after hotmail made it so you cannot shut off spam filtering, and lately hotmail has taken to BLOCKING email that they think is spam.  I cannot get emails at all from several popular services for account verification, including Steam. (I still need to use hotmail access for old accounts). (Spam filtering is literally worthless.  Every spam filter tells users to periodically check their spam folder for legit email.  Well, if you need to sort through them all anyway, why bother with the filter? Just send it to my inbox when it comes, thanks.)

Forward all of your incoming gmail to your main email account and that's it.

-J

Gmail is a pain in the a55 as they continuously, against the customer's will, reset your email settings to block outside programs from accessing your gmail.  They say it's for security, but once you specifically allow it they should not be blocking it anymore.  I say they do it so you're forced to use gmail directly in order to see their ads.

My gmail on WLM works after fixing WLM.  ALL of my clients were affected, including the two corporate accounts I use.

All is fine now.

-J