Hi. I have about 500 contacts in my windows contacts folder under c:/users/helen/contacts or something like that (!) but I have over 1000 in the contacts section of my Windows Live Mail program. I thought they were supposed to sync with each other or one feed from the other so that they are the same and so when you delete or add to one you delete or add to the other automatically? I thought that the windows contacts folder on my C drive fed the contacts folder in my WLM. Can anyone tell me why the two contacts databases for want of a better word aren't the same as each other/one and the same? And how I can get them to match other than manually adding or deleting contacts which would only be a short term solution.

I have Windows 8.1 and hate the mail app.  I finally got the Outlook.com/Hotmail.com/Live.com web mail configured to get all of my e mail in one place, but I find the web mail very disappointing after being used to the Windows Live Mail program that I had on my Vista Laptop.  I downloaded Windows Live Essentials expecting to get the Windows Live Mail that I knew and loved, but found that it was not the same.  

Is there a way to get the older version of Windows Live Mail that will work on my Windows 8.1 OS??

I presently use Vista Home Premium (2008) and the Windows Live Mail program associated with Vista. An older version of Office Professional Outlook contacts is on the hard drive but this has never interferred with Live Mail in the past...more for my reference than anything else. Recently when I try to forward an email that includes images or an email received from someone else, the email does not go through properly. The recipient gets a multi part email with a lot of gibberish. They often receive 20+ copies of the initial email BUT each contains a lot of letters and references to MIME multi parts but no message. I have sent the same email to my smart phone acct (same as my Live Mail acct on my computer) to "see" what the corrupt email looks like. I see the same issues, no images, and a lot of letters instead of the word copy.  My email text is set to HTML for send / receive messages. I've mad no changes to settings... is this a driver issue? If so, how do I correct what's "wrong". Thankyou.
I have Windows 8.1.  I had downloaded Windows Essentials 2012 last year.  Now my Windows Live Mail program is stuck on "work offline". 
I have IE 11 which does not offer the "work offline" option in the File drop down menu. 
I've tried "repairing" Windows Essentials 2012. 

How do I switch it back to working online?

Thank you.
1. I have contacts in my Windows Live Mail program on my laptop that are different than the contact list on the people.live people list.  I think this is because I did not sign in to Windows Live when I used the Windows Live program on my laptop.  If I now sign in when I start Windows Live, will the contacts on my computer erase or override the contacts online or the otehr way aroung do do they get combined?  The online contact list is the list I would like to use because it has some names that are not on the list on my computer.

2.  The online contact list has many duplicate names.  What causes names to duplicate?

thanks,
I want to use the Windows Live Mail program to work within multiple email accounts (2). When I try to sign in to Windows Live Mail program on my computer, the prompt says my email or password are incorrect. They are both correct, so I'm completely frustrated. I have changed the password several times, in order to make sure it's not that I'm forgetting my password, but I still get the error message "The email address or password is incorrect. Please try again." I have tried everything... and am about to lose patience. Please help. Thank you.


Help! When ever I try and sync my hotmail account to the Windows Live Mail program on my computer, I get an error message. I am copy and paste the error message below:

Unable to send or receive messages for the Hotmail (lamb1319) account. To send and receive messages in your Hotmail account, go to http://hotmail.live.com on the Web, or try again later. To get help from Windows Live Customer Support, go to http://support.live.com and click Windows Live Mail in the list of services.

Subject 'Re: Research Seminar: Final Report/ Power Point Presentation'
Server Error: 404
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80194194

It was working fine one day and then the next day, it would not sync. I know that it must be the program because I can receive the emails on my phone and I can also go to the website and retrieve them. Anyone know how to fix it?

Steph