What's the difference between Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail?

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I am using Windows Live Mail, problem is that when I receive any emails with images in them the images are coming in as an attachment and not in the body of the email. Is there anyway to change this? I want them in the body of the email and not as an attachment.
Thanks

I'm using Windows Mail which came pre installed with Vist Home. Recently I started to "lose2 barches of emails from mt inbox even though they had not been accessed. How do I recover them? My ISP says they were "delivered" and have been deleted from the ISP server

Regarding email attachment problems i experienced similar problems with attachments not being able to be opened ( i removed IE8 from my system to cure the problem!)

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I'v been a fan of Windows for years, 3.1 days, and while it seems like Microsoft has somewhat of a 'memory problem' when it comes to program cleanliness and organization, there's still nothing that can compare. Thanks for the helpful outline, though - it helps a lot to be able to find a source that eliminates some of the confusion!

Hello Leo,

again, like many other, would want to appreciate the fantastic web-page layout. This certainly is very simple, yet effective (to navigate to the required information one is looking for).

My Q.s here is simple, i'm using 13.3" notebook with a Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor with a 2GB RAM (with feather-light weight n over 8hrs of workable batt time) and i just got started with Win Mail. Also, read updates regarding WLM. I wanted to understand, which of the before mentioned (WM, WLM) will be a lighter version of a mail client for a Solo Processor powered Notepads like mine..

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Arnob

i seem to have both wlm wlh gmail and ny local mail. they all go to wlh but i get loads of duplicates. what can i do please.
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suttlem

The above email address has somehow been changed to hotmail windows live, so I am not receiving emails and have lost about 3 months of emails that were in my inox. How can I change the default to my address in Windows Live and delete the hotmail windows live address? Is there telephone support for Windows Live (I searched and only tech businesses numbers came up)? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

we are all being taken for idiots with this guff from microsoft..what was wrong with oe..nice and simple to use never caused offence ...so why do these people mess up the whole thing to try and make a fast buck

I use Outlook because it's the only one that will sync with my smart phone. I do use both window mail & window live mail (thinking they were the same). I have the Outlook Connector, but not real sure if it works with wm or wlm...so I'n not real sure into which program I should enter my appointments and "to dos"?
I like Outlook because I can upload multiple files at one time, plus I'm able to include a fancy signature w/picture in my signature. Is there a window mail program that has these capabilities?

You think your are confused? So is Microsoft!

After my account was recently hacked (as were about 10,000 other Hotmail accounts) I spent two hours on the phone being transferred between about 8 different Microsoft departments (including Vista, Office, Outlook, and MSN) only to finally be told that Windows Live Mail had NO telephone support and that I would have to use the online support instead.

After that, people from India kept calling me about my "Windows Mail" problems, despite telling them clearly that I had problems with "Windows LIVE Mail". (But between accent problems and bad satellite phone service much of the conversation was unintelligible.)

In the end, they lost all my Contacts, and because of version changes the contact backups on my machine were not readable by the new version.

A friend recommended gmail, but I was shocked at some of the limitations in that program.

Can anybody recommend a good--non-Microsoft--mail program?

Windows Live mail has just refused to open and has lost all my contacts and emails.There is a fix on the microsft site for getting the messages back, but you have to be an experinced user to follow the instructions. They all get imported again into an imported folder. This gives you a duplication of emails folders. I so far have not worked out a way to get my contacts back.

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