I'm running Windows Live Mail (WLM) 2012 Build 16.4.3508.0205 with Explorer 10 version 10.0.9200.16736. I have not installed any of the other Windows Live Essentials products.

WLM is slow at starting up - it can sometime take a couple of minutes to start synchronising with my POP3 mail server. This problem only started several months ago - possibly since I upgraded to Explorer 10 or after installing another Windows Update.

Closer inspection shows that WLM is stalling while the Windows Live Communications Platform is starting up in the background.

Is a solution available to stop the Windows Live Communications Platform from stalling the start up of WLM? Can the Windows Live Communications Platform be disabled without impacting WLM?

Any advice would be appreciated - thanks