Is live.co.uk using POP on a mail host out of order or discontinued.

Thank you.

So just to be clear:

I will continue to use my Windows 7 laptop exactly as it is at present with WLM 2012.

I should be able to download WLM 2012 to my other laptop which is Windows 10 (although I'll probably have to pay someone to do it for fear of going wrong). You wouldn't anticipate the kind of problems reported in the post which both you & Don mentioned (362021-windows 10 update messed up 2012 WLEssentials Live Mail). It is somewhat worrying that both of you mentioned this post independently. It does make me very hesitant over risking this. How likely might this be: I wouldn't have the nerve to edit the Registry. Do I only need to download Windows Executable from archive.org wlsetup-all_201802 and not Torrent ?

I know how to export everything from WLM 2012 to my external hard drive and import from that to a new instance of WLM 2012 on a different computer. (This is probably just as well as the Techwalla article confused me so I'll ignore it)

Many thanks for your advice

I have two laptops. One is Windows 7 (and always has been) and the other is Windows 10 (and always has been). I don't want to upgrade the Windows 7 laptop. I love Windows 7 and I love WLM 2012. I use this Windows 7 laptop for everyday usage because it has WLM 2012. I rarely use the Windows 10 laptop simply because it does not have WLM 2012. What I want to do is use the Windows 10 laptop more often, especially because eventually I expect I'll have to retire the Windows 7 laptop. The Windows 10 laptop is a new laptop and came with W10 installed - it is not an upgraded system - it has never been anything except Windows 10. But my problem is that I want to use WLM 2012 on the new Windows 10 laptop because I like the way it works, but particularly because I want to store emails locally on it (using POP) and delete them from the mainframe. I definitely DO NOT want to upgrade the old Windows 7 laptop: I like it fine as it is. Ultimately I imagine the old W7 laptop will stop working and I will have to resort to W10 or even W11. I will probably still run two laptops (the current newer W10 and a further one which I shall purchase. But all the time I would like to continue to have WLM 2012 rather than an alternative email host program. I have several different email accounts and I want to continue to use POP and save certain emails locally - not necessarily the same emails on each laptop - and delete them all off webmail as soon as I have downloaded in POP and saved them locally on one of the laptops.

I hope I am explaining this clearly. Sadly I don't understand the bulk of what you have written in your last post. But I want to make it clear I do not want to upgrade either laptop from the OS that currently exists on each. All I want to do is find a means of getting WLM 2012 on any computer which is purchased with W10 or W11 (or even later if such a thing ends up being developed) as the operating system.

It is useful to me to have two separate laptops (or more) but I really want WLM 2012 on each laptop regardless of which OS it has.

So what I want is to have a means of getting WLM 2012 on any new laptop (and not have it keep going wrong as Don's reply post about issues following System Updates suggests it might)

I do not use One Drive and don't want to. I back up my files (including my saved locally WLM 2012 emails) onto an external hard drive.

That is another reason I like WLM 2012 because it is very easy to backup my saved emails (of which I have thousands) onto an external hard drive locally so everything is kept here. I'm just much happier with that system rather than synchronised systems.

As I say I prefer to keep different emails locally on separate laptops for different purposes.

I've found it a bit confusing trying to answer what you are asking/saying and what Don is asking/saying. I hope I've now clarified.

I think there might have been some confusion over where one of us has said Upgrades and one of us has said Updates. Naturally I do System Updates (although on old laptop these are only Security Updates as that is all that is offered for Windows 7). I definitely don't want to Upgrade anything at all: I want to leave the OS the same as it was installed in the first place. I want to have multiple computers (maybe each with different OS as installed) but have WLM 2012 on each (provided it is going to work properly and keep working properly and not get disrupted by some kind of Windows Update or some other factor)

Hope you can follow this.