I bought a new Gateway Laptop with Win 8 installed in May 2013.  Shortly thereafter, I updated to Win 8.1.  I didn't like the Mail program provided. (Outlook)

I installed Windows Essentials after I updated to 8.1, several times and uninstalled it/re-installed it, because the email program wasn't working.

2 days ago I re-installed Windows Live Mail.  It worked fine for the first day, a little worse the second day and today, the third day, it is totally inconsistent.  I keep receiving pop-ups with messages:  Cannot connect to server, Failure because of memory problems,  Cannot receive/send email because of server problems, memory problems, etc., etc.  The pop-ups keep flashing on the screen so fast I can't even click ok to get out of the program.

Is there an update to Windows Live Mail 2012 that can solve my problem?  I have run diagnostics on my computer, there are no memory problems, just problems with Windows Live Mail 2012.

I would like to use it, but I'm really thinking of moving to Thunderbird.  I need a stable and consistent Email program without installing and re-installing and re configuring every 2 days.

Looking for suggestions.

Thank you very much.