I am running win 7 Home Premium,  Win Live Essentials 2012. Graphics degradation when launching Mail showed up 2 or 3 weeks ago.  I uninstalled 2012 and installed Windows Live Essentials 2011.   Same problem, very bad graphics.  This happens only when launching Live Mail.  All other Essential app work fine.  As soon as I close Live mail the graphics goes thru a reset and is normal. 

Thanks

Pbjorgen