Hi All Expert, Good Day. I would like to check does anyone know how to backup and transfer windows live mail 2012 email and contact to another PC with. Download Windows Essentials. Run the setup file. When you get to the What do you want to install window select Choose the programs you want to install. Dont like the default Mail app in Windows 10 Follow this guide to download, install and setup Windows Live Mail program in Windows 10 with ease. Alternatives for Windows Live Mail and Outlook. Is the attached really true and how can I keep all my emails in hotmail on my PC and work with those when I am off line I also store all my emails on my PC in WLM as well as have many groups created for my bulk mail outs. Thats just one of several questions that arrived recently in response to Microsofts announcement that their Windows Live Mail 2. Outlook. com based email accounts, including email addresses at hotmail. Naturally, this took a lot of people by surprise. As it turns out, the dire warnings, while certainly significant, may not be entirely accurate. And, of course, the warnings fail to mention some very viable alternatives that dont involve Microsoft. The announcement. Microsoft sent the following message to email addresses accessed using Windows Live Mail 2. Dear User,Earlier this year we introduced a new Outlook. com that will help you collaborate with others, focus on what matters, and get more done. The new Outlook. com delivers an exciting set of new experiences across web, phone, and desktop, and were eager for you to start using it. It appears that you are currently using Windows Live Mail 2. Outlook. com account. Windows Live Mail 2. Outlook. com. When account upgrades begin at the end of June, you will no longer be able to receive email sent to your Outlook. com account in Windows Live Mail 2. Rest assured, you can always access your email by logging into Outlook. com from any web browser, and you will continue to have access to all your data that is currently in Windows Live Mail 2. The message continues, offering the following alternatives in addition to Outlook. Switch to the Windows Mail app in Windows 8, 8. Upgrade to Windows 1. Windows Mail app. A free one year subscription to Office 3. Outlook 2. 01. 6, the desktop email program. Presumably, after that year, normal subscription charges would apply for Office 3. And theres a deadline June 3. As it turns out, theyve glossed over as in failed to mention completely a few other alternatives. Outlook. com on the web. OK, they did mention this, but I want to reiterate it you will still to be able to access your email by visiting outlook. All your mail will still be there after June 3. This might be a fine time to consider that as your primary means of accessing your mail. This is the plan requiring the least effort. Everythings there now, and you can continue to use it just by going to outlook. Any other desktop email program. What the announcement failed to mention is that POP3, IMAP, and SMTP services will continue to work. I confirmed this with Microsoft support  this is only applicable for Windows Live Mail. Meaning, if you are using other email client or mail app, this will not affect the program or your account itself. What this means is that you can, if you like, switch to a different desktop email program completely. I generally recommend Thunderbird, but any email program capable of POP3, IMAP, and SMTP will do just fine. There are many, many, many different email programs that you might consider, and now might be a perfect time to do so. All you need are Outlook. IMAP, POP3, and SMTP settings. I recommend using IMAP so as to have all of your email available both in the email program and online at outlook. Unfortunately setting up a new email program will cause all of your email to be downloaded again. What youll lose IMAP, POP3, and SMTP are email only protocols. That means your address book will not be carried over. You can export your contacts from Outlook. Contacts and address books, and moving them from one system to another, remain an exceptionally weak link in how we handle email. I recommend you set up a desktop email program, even if you never use it directly. By that I mean that if you elect to take the first option start using Outlook. Any other email service. Theres nothing that says you need to stick with your Microsoft email account, and youve got several weeks to make the transition to another account and email address. This doesnt really make anything easier, or preserve more than any other technique. I bring it up primarily because these kinds of changes suddenly dropping support for a popular email program tend to irritate some folks to the point of wanting to leave the service completely. If thats you, this would be the time to do so. Gmails been working great for me for years. I recommend that you do not close your Microsoft account, as its likely to be tied to services you still care about. Particularly if youre using it log in to your Windows 1. PC, you want that account to remain active. But you can deal with your email elsewhere if you like. And yes, Windows Live Mail 2. Just like Outlook Express, you can keep on using Windows Live Mail 2. Microsoft email account. And like Outlook Express, it is no longer being updated no bug or security fixes. By default, Windows Live Mail 2. Microsoft servers to access your mail. Its this protocol that allows it to synchronize not only your mail, but your contacts and whatever else as well. Its also this private protocol that Microsoft is disabling on June 3. Windows Live Mail 2. HoweverYou can switch to using IMAP and SMTP. As I mentioned above, Microsoft email accounts continue to support POP3, IMAP and SMTP. Windows Live Mail 2. POP3, IMAP and SMTP. So we can simply use manual configuration to add the account using IMAP the closest in functionality to what you have now, and SMTP. Unfortunately there is no way to change the existing account configuration. I actually recommend that for now, you leave it alone. Instead, add the account again Ive verified that you can add it twice, but this time, make sure to select Manually configure server settings, and then set the IMAP and SMTP information by hand. What youll lose once again, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP are email only protocols. That means your address book will not be carried over. By leaving the old account in Windows Live Mail 2. And like setting up a new email program, configuring the account a second time will cause all of your email to be downloaded again. You have many options. As you can see, you have several options beyond what Microsoft has suggested. While its no surprise they would prefer you migrate to their more current offerings updating your operating system if necessary to do so the good news here is that there are more options that dont involve such drastic steps. The bad news, of course, is that doing nothing is not one of the options. Download right click, Save As Duration 9 0. MBSubscribe Apple Podcasts Android RSS. How To Install Windows Mail On Windows 8 For POP And IMAPRecently, I replaced one of my home laptops with a new Acer Aspire V5 Ultrabook laptop. This laptop packs plenty of features including an LED backlit screen and keyboard, 8. GB RAM, 1. TB hard drive and a touchscreen LCD with Windows 8. This is my first PC with Windows 8 and the touchscreen is a nice feature to have when using the Modern tile interface. The touchscreen is a bit awkward to use because of the physical keyboard below the screen. If this was a tablet, itd be perfect. Since this is my first experience with Windows 8, it took some time to get used to where things are and how this operating system works. I had to Google how to do simple things like how to turn off the laptop. It wasnt very intuitive. But Im past that now. Even the desktop interface has a few quirks that Im still slowly getting used to. However, when it came to really putting this laptop to work and retiring my old Dell Studio 1. I ran into a few more issues. Where Is Windows Mail One issue I ran into was getting my email on this laptop. Windows 8 comes with a Mail app in the tile interface. To set that up, I needed a Windows Live email account. I didnt really want to do that but at the time, it was the only way I thought I could get mail on this computer. I didnt have a current version of Outlook to install so I set up the Mail app. When I finally got it working, it wasnt exactly what I wanted. It was more like a web based email client.  I was used to the interface in Outlook and Windows Mail. The Mail app is great if I was on tablet but again, this isnt a tablet. On my old laptop, I was using the Windows Mail program that came free with Windows Vista. I kept searching the hard drive but there was no Windows Mail program. The good news is that after about a week of searching the internet, I finally found out how to get Windows Mail onto my Windows 8 laptop. Where To Get Windows Mail For Windows 8 I believe that Windows Mail and a few other familiar programs that came pre installed in XP, Vista and Windows 7 were left out on Windows 8 because Microsoft wants people to really start adopting their tile interface instead of the desktop. This doesnt really help people like me who want to use my computer as a traditional computer, not a tablet. There were several solutions I found from different websites that were really technical and involved moving and renaming files and other things that I didnt want to do with a brand new laptop. Now that I know how to do it, its really quite simple. However, Microsoft doesnt make it easy to figure out.  Now that I think about it, the answer I was looking for mightve been in the owners manual which by the way is still sealed but I never looked. Now one more thing before I get to the solution, the program that is equivilant to Windows Mail is now called Windows Live Mail. I think when you install it, youll be pleasantly surprised that it is very similar to the old Windows Mail. And despite the name, you dont need a Windows Live account to set it up or get started To download, youll need Windows Live Essentials 2. Microsoft. Heres the link http windows. Just click Download and save the installer to your hard drive. Then launch the installer and choose the recommended installation. Here are the applications included in Windows Live Essentials 2. Photo Gallery. Movie Maker. Mail. Microsoft Sky. Drive. Skype MessengerWriter. Family Safety. Launching Windows Live Mail. To be honest, the only program I needed was Windows Live Mail. This program is completely different than the app that is launched in the tile interface. Once you install Windows Live Essentials 2. Windows Live Mail on your computer by going to Windows C Program Files x. Windows Live Mail wlmail. Thats quite a few steps just to launch an application. Because Windows 8 no longer has a Start button, you have to launch that way unless you create a shortcut on your Taskbar like I did. A Faster Way To Launch Windows Live Mail. Without the familiar Windows Start button, access to applications isnt quite as easy as it was with prior operating systems. Heres how I created a shortcut on the Taskbar for easy launch. All you have to do is right click  on the wlmail icon, click Create Shortcut. Click Yes to create shortcut on Desktop. You can simply leave it there or just drag the shortcut icon into the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. I like to have my main programs in the taskbar because I can launch programs with one click. When you launch Windows Live Mail, youll have to enter your server information from your email accounts before you can start using it.  This is just the joy of owning a new computer But the great thing is that you can use either POP or IMAP protocols with Windows Live Mail. Starting Windows Live Mail From The Tile Interface. Heres another timesaver you may want to use to launch the Windows Live Mail application, especially if you like to use the new Modern tile interface. You can actually have a tile that appears on the main Windows 8 icon screen but dont get it confused with the Mail app. Heres how you do it. Starting with the first step when we created a desktop short cut, right click on wlmail in Windows Explorer. Click on Pin to Start. Now when you go to the tile interface, youll see a shortcut for the newly installed Windows Live Mail One Last Thing So You Dont Go Crazy. Once you get Windows Live Mail setup and running on your computer, you might think everything is great until you start reading your emails and find that images dont load in HTML based messages. Heres the solution to keep you from yelling at your computer. With Windows Live Mail open, click on File at the top left of the application window. When the next window pops up, click on Options Safety options. After you click Safety options, a new window will pop up. Click on Security at the top of the window. Then in the section titled Download Images, uncheck Block images. Then check Show images. Make sure your settings look like mine. Thats pretty much itHopefully this tutorial helps you get back on track with your emails on Windows 8.