Windows Essentials does not ever open, it says 'windows essentials has stopped working' for every single windows essentials program except OneDrive. So here is the error code for Windows Live Mail (from Event Viewer)

Faulting application name: wlstartup.exe, version: 16.4.3522.110, time stamp: 0x52d06446
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x07086e20
Faulting process id: 0x1564
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf5c08ebed378c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Installer\wlstartup.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 2a8287ce-c7fc-11e3-8354-f46d0453e1f5