Windows Live Mail cannot display message after Windows 10 update

Anonymous
2020-07-18T21:58:04+00:00

My laptop recently updated windows 10 (I think #1909) on it's own.  After the update, my Windows Live Mail quit working.  It downloads the message headers/titles, so I know it's connecting to the gmail server, but when I try to open the message, I get the error, "Message Can't be Displayed.  Windows live mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or disk space and try again."  I have plenty of memory and disk space.  Thanks for any suggestions!  (And yes, I know I should go to a newer email client, but I have too much wrapped up in Windows Live and just want to fix it!)  Rick

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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Anonymous
2020-10-11T18:36:50+00:00

Yes, I'll modify the instructions.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T10:23:10+00:00

    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!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T17:08:33+00:00

    Thanks--I had already switched over the Em Client,  I appreciate your help and suggestion!

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