Recently my email account *** Email address is removed for privacy *** and my wife's *** Email address is removed for privacy *** became entangled, such that mail addressed to her is now placed in my inbox on top of my previously received emails, and when I sent a message, although on the new (compose) page it appeared to be sent by palmerrh@msn, in the recipient's inbox, the email appeared  to becoming from *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.

I updated the email account by installing a fresh copy of the program, but it did not resolved the entanglement, and may have increased it. This program does not apparently give the user access to the account server and address settings, otherwise I could go through the parameters and correct them.

The errors have only been noticed (so far) in the *** Email address is removed for privacy *** account and not in the *** Email address is removed for privacy *** account.

I tried resetting my account under an outlook program, which worked ok until some diligent Microsoft live team scrubbed them - these guys have an identifying email sender address, but aparently not the same inbox - so they can send programs, but one cannot send responses - most irritating.

Anyway, I do not like outlook, because the available commands are limited, and many can only be accessed from pulldown menus, even though there is plenty of room on the Tool Bar for them.

If Microsoft wants to issue a new OS, they should issue a current XPpro (with the pages of security add-ons that I have in mine already installed). I do not think W8 is for me, as I don't want to touch the (23.5" wide) screen that I have, and I prefer XP to W7.

This current email problem is sufficiently irritating that I am driven to find a solution which gives clean results - I have thought of taking the email program off my computer, handling all emails on an iPad, which may be the best answer - although with some procedural complications for attachments.