I am using windows live mail with windows 8 and internet explorer 10. Each day all of my previous emails are no longer there. Is there a control that deletes emails each day If so I cannot find it. Please help as this is a real problem for me.
Alan

I currently have WLM installed on my laptop and recently bought another computer which I was successfully able to install WLM on but do not know how to sync the contacts, storage folders or calendar.  Can anyone please help me??

Our home PC is older running Windows XP, as well as IE 8 with Outlook Express.

Love Outlook Express!  Our home users all use that still.

But I realize that when our old PC dies soon, we will be getting Windows 8.  I have another personal laptop running Windows 7 and IE 10, so begrudgingly getting used to Live Mail for email on that machine (and getting used to Windows 8 on my new Surface, but it has a useless mail app). 

Seems like I read a lot of problems experienced by XP systems downloading Live Mail.  And in fact, it doesn't list XP as a supported system.  But it would be nice if I could do that on our old PC, because other household users besides myself could get used to it and transfer data, before the machine dies.

Of course, I'm thinking that Live Mail can store information in the cloud, so it's easy to set up a new machine? Is that true, or is information stored only on the machine?

Anyhow, should I try and download it to XP, too much risk to bother with it? 

I have two e-mail accounts in Windows Live Mail. A friend who sends me e-mails keeps having them returned to her and I don't receive them. This is a recent problem  and neither of us have made any changes. My ISP told me she should contact hers as it is something to do with the blacklist but they were unable to help.
Some emails aren't arriving through Windows Live Mail on my Windows 7 system on my PC.  Know this because am getting them on my IPad.  Server is BT .
when I am in my WLM desktop I am trying to eliminate the Calendar column to the right of the page but I cannot see a place where I can do it.

Here's the same screenshot again, this time with six of the UI elements numbered:

  1. Ribbon tabs
  2. Button labels
  3. Folder names
  4. Sub-folder names
  5. Message list
  6. Message header bar

Which of these elements do you have difficulty reading? How could their legibility be improved?


Hi ¡Firedog,

I appreciate all your efforts to grab the matter. The problem might not appear at your computer, as you might have changed settings/configurations.

For me in WLM (also have little comparasion with MS Outlook 2010),

1. Ribbon tabs: Ok.

2. Button labels: Ok.

3. Folder names: Very faint. Size very small. (Additionally: MS Outlook 2010 has yellow boxes, but the results are similar. It does not hurt in MS Outlook 2010)

4. Sub-folder names: Very faint. Size very small.

5. Message list: I am using reading  pane right of the message list. New messages appear bold ok. Unread messages are very faint. Size is Ok. If I use, reading pane at bottom of the message list, then don't have faint fonts problem. (Additionally: In MS Outlook 2010 the first line shows contact name in pure black colour, the second line is gray. Font sizes are same as WLM. The combination of Black and gray looks fine for MS Outlook. In WLM both lines appear gray, that's the problem.)

6. Message header bar: Ok. Message itself displays fine. However, microsoft community Logo looking very faint in a post from microsoft community. Font colours and sizes are fine.

Additional: The message which I am writing in this windows also appears gray to me, except bold letters. It might be related to internet colour settings (I am not sure, I am just a user, not a computer expert), which I don't know how to change. I think WLM might also depend on internet explorer for font settings. I am just a student, and don't know the details. I have set 130% of original size to view it in internet explorer, but, in case of WLM, I cannot find an option to increase the size to 130%. Nevertheless, the letters typed in MS Word 2010 look pure black to me, which is fine.

(From Microsoft word, I am able to find that this colour stands between gray-80% and Black, Text 1, Lighter 25%. The same sentence when copied from MS Word and pasted here has significant difference of colour clarity, however, after posting the comment, the clarity vanishes, and both texts appear similar.)

CNet says I do not have the latest version (16.4.3505) of Windows Live Mail, but I do not know how to download it.  I do not know what version I have now, nor where to go to download the latest version.