hate the new outlook that is replacing win mail. any alternative that is similar to win mail that is simple and fast to load?

Oh My Goodness! Thank you thank you thank you. This has solved my problem.

Thank you for your contribution - in the meantime I have cowardly stopped using my PC and laptop for emails.

I will try your suggestion and let you know the result

I'm right there with you. I just auto-renewed on December 1st. If I would have know that I was going to be forced to use the new versions they came out with I would have cancelled and gone elsewhere.

Now I have to wait a whole year to move to something else. I hate what they have done to all their platforms. It doesn't even look professional, it looks like a child's app.

I also don't have the time to relearn all the changes so when it diverted to the new platform this morning I was thrown off and it effected my bottom line. That pissed me off..

By the end of 2025 I will have everything migrated elsewhere. Something that is not an app on my computer that I have no control of.

if what you "auto-renewed" was Microsoft 365 or another version of Office that provides Classic/Legacy Outlook that's still installed and can be used

1. Verify that Classic Outlook is the default email program.
2. When you right-click New Outlook in the Start Menu, is uninstall an option? How about in Settings > Apps?

Don

I have read the most recent comments on this sorry version of Outlook. Couldn't agree more. Starting the first of November, I no longer receive emails. I even tried to send a message to myself and it never showed up in sent mail nor in my inbox. Tried to access my original version of Outlook and it is no longer available. Am currently looking for an alternative.

Looking at all the other comments, the issue is a LOT bigger than slow email. The people I work with agree with the comments I have read; that the application has taken a number or large steps backwards. Overall, the new outlook is a disappointing, low powered application compared to the versions we all worked with in the past.

If Microsoft worked furiously over the next year, I do not think it would be enough time to even bring it up to par with Outlook 2016.

The most disappointing thing, however, is that Microsoft changed all of this in a vacuum without truly knowing what the users of their application want.