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hotmail / windows live
Has anyone any experience of hotmail upgrading to 'windows live' mail.
My daughter has been on a world tour during which her hotmail account, automatically, (according to her) upgraded to 'Windows live'. On her return home the account refuses to work on our humble Win ME machine. WE rae wondering how we can make it work again. Thanks for any help |
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hotmail / windows live
Windows Live AFAIK, doesn't work on Win 9x systems - so you should continue
to use Hotmail..... one complicating factor is that Hotmail also withdrew support for Outlook Express access to the free accounts some time ago, so this may be the effect that you are now seeing on the home machine. If not - post back, or to Hotmail groups, for more assistance. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "frank" wrote in message . uk... Has anyone any experience of hotmail upgrading to 'windows live' mail. My daughter has been on a world tour during which her hotmail account, automatically, (according to her) upgraded to 'Windows live'. On her return home the account refuses to work on our humble Win ME machine. WE rae wondering how we can make it work again. Thanks for any help |
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hotmail / windows live
What exact problems is tour daughter experiencing? How is she accessing
Windows Live mail - via the web or using Outlook Express? Is the problem logging on to the web site? If so she using the correct Passport? Is another Passport logged in, not necessarily to Livemail, on the PC? If so sign out from that passport and then sign in using the passport associated with the account. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows frank wrote: Has anyone any experience of hotmail upgrading to 'windows live' mail. My daughter has been on a world tour during which her hotmail account, automatically, (according to her) upgraded to 'Windows live'. On her return home the account refuses to work on our humble Win ME machine. WE rae wondering how we can make it work again. Thanks for any help |
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hotmail / windows live
Noel,
Windows Live Mail is working fine here on Win Me. I've just checked. It's possible that my system though is a little different having been one of those testing Live Mail for the last year so my settings may just be different from the norm. OE access. Free accounts that were using OE to access Hotmail prior to the withdrawal in late 2004 continue to have access for the most part although mistakes were made and some did lose access that should never have done so. Mine included but OE access was restored and the allocation increased from the former miserly 2MB to 2GB when I mentioned this at an early stage during the beta. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006] Noel Paton wrote: Windows Live AFAIK, doesn't work on Win 9x systems - so you should continue to use Hotmail..... one complicating factor is that Hotmail also withdrew support for Outlook Express access to the free accounts some time ago, so this may be the effect that you are now seeing on the home machine. If not - post back, or to Hotmail groups, for more assistance. |
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Ah - thanks, Mike - wasn't aware of that......
I have one Hotmail account that continues to work, and one that is defunct (at least AFA OE is concerned)... I probably have another couple that I don't remember as well, that clutter up MS's servers, but WTH, they can afford it -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Noel, Windows Live Mail is working fine here on Win Me. I've just checked. It's possible that my system though is a little different having been one of those testing Live Mail for the last year so my settings may just be different from the norm. OE access. Free accounts that were using OE to access Hotmail prior to the withdrawal in late 2004 continue to have access for the most part although mistakes were made and some did lose access that should never have done so. Mine included but OE access was restored and the allocation increased from the former miserly 2MB to 2GB when I mentioned this at an early stage during the beta. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006] Noel Paton wrote: Windows Live AFAIK, doesn't work on Win 9x systems - so you should continue to use Hotmail..... one complicating factor is that Hotmail also withdrew support for Outlook Express access to the free accounts some time ago, so this may be the effect that you are now seeing on the home machine. If not - post back, or to Hotmail groups, for more assistance. |
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hotmail / windows live
Thanks for all replies. problem appears to be cleared now she had been using web hotmail abroad, which was 'upgraded' to windows live sometime either automatically as claimed by her or pehaps by inadvertant selection. windows live continued to work while abroad (internet cafes). however on returning home it refused to work on Win Me. however later in the evening it did work. I know not why. I suggested that she used the 'opt out' link i found which disconnected her from windows live without any comment, goodbye, good luck or anything. She was then able to use her hotmail account again thanks for your kind interest |
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