Question about Outlook Express

I am running Windows 7 and Windows Mail Live is my default email.  When I open Live Mail, 3 columns are displayed.  From left to right those  columns are folders, list of emails in my inbox, and the view pane.  Whenever I click on an email in the list, the email is automatically opened.  How do I stop this from happening?

I have looked in options, but no such choice is there.  I want to be able to delete or junk an email BEFORE it is opened, to prevent any malware, viruses, or other unwanted actions from occurring.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Sharon

Hello,  I've recently set up my WLM email as an IMAP account. It receives and sends email successfully. It places my "sent" messages in a "sent" folder with the correct subject line. But when I open those "sent" messages, the content is something completely different.  I think it comes from messages I've received and trashed.  This looks like an indexing problem?  Is there an easy way to correct it?  I have deleted the account and set it up again - that makes no difference. any guidance appreciated. 

Original title: "sent" messages not really sent

Long story short: my hard drive crashed last week so I had to re-install Windows 8.1 (although I was using Windows 8 before) and then install Windows Live Mail. 

When I'm in WLM and reading an email, the fonts are kind of weird in the sense that they are spaced much differently side by side (kerning).  Yet when I'm writing an email, everything looks fine.  Everywhere else on my computer (internet, MS Word), everything is fine as well.

I tried playing around with the "Read" settings in WLM, but nothing helped (changing fonts, etc).  Then I even restored Windows to an earlier time, that didn't help either.  Then I "repaired" Live Essentials, but that didn't do anything.

One thing I should say is that when I was re-installing Windows, I copied my old fonts from Windows 8.0 into the new Windows fonts folder and overrode what was there (since I have extra fonts).  Maybe I should not have done this, and just installed the new fonts.  But I can't imagine this is the problem since the fonts everywhere else, and even in WLM when writing an email, look fine.



The text on the left is written, and everything is fine.  Yet when I'm reading it (on the right), the spacing is different and more spread out.  I know it may not look like it here (since it's too small), but believe me, when I read it in 12 point in a paragraph, it looks very different.

And also, in some emails that I read, the fonts are even completely different fonts from the settings and even change to different fonts when I go back into WLM and the same email, which is very strange.

I spoke to someone else and they said it was an issue with the font kerning in Windows 8.1.  Also, I should say that my Magnifier tool in my Control Panel is set at 125%, but it was on my old Windows 8.0 and everything in Windows Live Mail was fine.

Do you know what the problem is?  Will I have to re-install WLM?

Long story short: my hard drive crashed last week so I had to re-install Windows 8.1 (although I was using Windows 8 before) and then install Windows Live Mail. 

When I'm in WLM and reading an email, the fonts are kind of weird in the sense that they are spaced much differently side by side (kerning).  Yet when I'm writing an email, everything looks fine.  Everywhere else on my computer (internet, MS Word), everything is fine as well.

I tried playing around with the "Read" settings in WLM, but nothing helped (changing fonts, etc).  Then I even restored Windows to an earlier time, that didn't help either.  Then I "repaired" Live Essentials, but that didn't do anything.

One thing I should say is that when I was re-installing Windows, I copied my old fonts from Windows 8.0 into the new Windows fonts folder and overrode what was there (since I have extra fonts).  Maybe I should not have done this, and just installed the new fonts.  But I can't imagine this is the problem since the fonts everywhere else, and even in WLM when writing an email, look fine.



The text on the left is written, and everything is fine.  Yet when I'm reading it (on the right), the spacing is different and more spread out.  I know it may not look like it here (since it's too small), but believe me, when I read it in 12 point in a paragraph, it looks very different.

And also, in some emails that I read, the fonts are even completely different fonts from the settings and even change to different fonts when I go back into WLM and the same email, which is very strange.

I spoke to someone else and they said it was an issue with the font kerning in Windows 8.1

Do you know what the problem is?  Will I have to re-install WLM?