Newsletter Archives

• New KB article: How to back up Windows Live Mail

  Posted on February 4, 2017 at 15:58 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  From @CanadianTech

  https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/89341/

  As with all AKB articles, you can make comments.

  Other Windows Live Mail

• How to replace Windows Live Mail with Thunderbird

  Posted on May 7, 2016 at 18:15 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I don’t want to start a religious war, but reader Conehead has the inside scoop on how to use Thunderbird with your Microsoft-supplied email addresses:

  Apparently the new Outlook.com is going to  be using the Office 365 mail servers. I have just set up Thunderbird to send/receive mail from these servers. To me, Thunderbird seems  very similar to  WLM.
  If anyone is  interested, I have some screenshots of  how the  setup screens  should look.
  
  
  Other Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail

• Microsoft won’t support Windows Live Mail with MS-sourced email addresses… but Google will

  Posted on May 6, 2016 at 09:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you have an @outlook.com or @hotmail or @live or @msn.com address, you have to give up Windows Live Mail by June 30. @gmail, OTOH, will work fine

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows News Outlook.com, Windows Live Mail

• There’s a fix for Windows Live Mail 2012

  Posted on April 6, 2016 at 11:51 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Three months ago, I wrote about the way Microsoft basically killed Windows Live Mail 2012 for Windows 7 and 8.1.

  This latest version of KB 3093594 has been accused of slowing Windows Live Mail to a standstill and “losing” both sent mail and folders. It looks as though the Jan. 8 version of KB 3093594 is the same as the Dec. 17 version of KB 3093594, which was designed to fix the Dec. 14 version of KB 3093594 but failed miserably.

  Now there’s some hope. An anonymous poster has found a fix:

  HI all there! It might be long time ago since this post has been updated, but there is an easy fix for this problem, by uninstalling the darned update in the following way:

  Close (exit) Windows Live Mail completely.

  Run the following command in an elevated (i.e. as administrator) command line:

  Msiexec /package {B775C26B-EAA8-4A11-ACBF-76E52DF6B805} /uninstall {342DCD5D-5946-453B-97AC-D53B7662EDF5}

  OR (if the previous command does not work):

  Msiexec /I {B775C26B-EAA8-4A11-ACBF-76E52DF6B805} MSIPATCHREMOVE={342DCD5D-5946-453B-97AC-D53B7662EDF5} /qb

  N.B.: IF (!) the msp setup wizard asks to remove or repair the application, you need to click “Repair”.

  Don’t start Windows Live Mail yet and reboot.
  The problem should be fixed now.

  Thanks, AC!

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3093594, Windows Live Mail

• Outlook, Windows Live Mail problems – caused by Exchange?

  Posted on January 21, 2016 at 13:18 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Just got this interesting letter from reader LL:

  Hi Woody, I really do not like to beat a dead horse, but the problems that MS is having with their web mail service and their email client continues and has become a nightmare for many home and corporate users. Office users get hit due to the link to Outlook.com or Outlook Preview.  

  MS appears to be fiddling at the server end because Outlook has been up and down since January 18th. Users are reporting a myriad of issues, especially in the UK. 

  https://downtoday.co.uk/outlook-problems/

  I no longer user WLM/Outlook, but a friend of mine uses Hotmail and tells me that they have received emails over the past 3 days but they can not delete them after they are read,  nor can they move the ones they want to save to a storage folder. They get a popup which just states that an error has occurred. This has just happened out of the blue. 

  It may be that the MS new Exchange Protocol is the real issue (an assumption on my part – I have no proof). I say this because MS has still not been able to fix the syncing problem which they have admitted resides on their servers. 
  If there is an upside to all of this, maybe MS is putting some priority on fixing the syncing problems. The outages may be the result of them testing different fix scenarios. However, they should back them out when they do not work. Days on end of problems is just not acceptable. MS has some weird idea that negatively  impacting users has no consequences.
  Other Exchange, Outlook, Windows Live Mail

• Windows Live Mail woes continue – more problems with the re-re-released KB 3093594

  Posted on January 15, 2016 at 11:07 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you’re using Windows Live Mail 2012, my first suggestion is to just give up. Microsoft apparently doesn’t care about WLM, and hasn’t devoted enough resources to solving the problem they’ve created. Move to Outlook.com or (my favorite) Gmail.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3093594, Windows Live Mail

• Windows Live Mail 2012 patch 3093594 freezes Win10, other problems

  Posted on December 14, 2015 at 09:33 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft’s email announcement looks like malware. Whoever did this should be publicly flogged – and I’m being charitable. Must be the holidays.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3093594, Windows Live Mail