Three times now, per instructions from this very helpful group, I have downloaded Windows Essential with end goal being to use outlook.com as my email default. Three times Windows Essentials has not downloaded properly. Two times, W??.dll was missing; error message to download again. This last time, the error message was U??.dll is missing, download again.

Additionally, Windows Live Mail will _not_ show in the default choices, nor will Windows Essentials. Neither program is found in Control Panel nor in Revo uninstaller.

Is there any hope, anything additional I might do in order to use outlook.com as default email?

Win7, 64 bit, Office 2010

Thanks so much for any additional help.