How can I get the old Windows Live Hotmail back?

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Regarding your comments on CHANGE , I sugest that you do the same as Hotmail if youn do not like change as done by them. You do the same "CHANGE," I have done , and am now with gmail which so far has been O.K , i have not had any problems at all .

My problem is that the new Hotmail live mail refuses to recognize my ISP, so any time I try to send a link message it is blocked! Is there any way I can uninstall Windows live mail without losing the hotmail account? Thanks.

LEO,
I anm in the same boat with other people. I cannot get my msn hotmail. I cannot find a phone number for tech support. I am put in my alternate email address but everything is so screwed up with this Live Hotmail. PLEASE HELP! Lorrie G

My problem I am having with the new version of windows live hotmail.is my instant messenging, now I cant do it any more. , now I have to be transferring my contact list on YAHOO MESSENGER. TO BE ABLE TO SEND MY CONTACTS INSTANT MESSAGES. Which I think Microsoft was running from in the first place. there are some times , its best to leave things alone. When making improvement one should make sure that it really worth it. even bing was not fully thought out. because they try to block google . and when you try to search for something on bing it does not work .unlike google. microsift may want to contact me to help them come up with solution . which will bring changes but keep their clientel happy.

Leo. you see this is what will kill Microsoft. disloyalties to its customers. by chasing Google and yahoo. just look at your question!...

Windows Live Hotmail changes occasionally and typically there's no going back. If that's a problem, my question is: Why are you still using Hotmail?
Are they going to try to top twitter too? what microsoft should realize , is there are more and more fads comming on to the market. and they should know that they will never be able to stop them. so the best thing to do is to try and keep the clientel they have happy and i can assure you that they will increase their numbers. because when other new fads failed . people will want to be able to come home and just know exactly where to find things. instead of all this frustration.

This seem to becoming like the dog and its bone and its shadow, he drop his bone in the water . because he he think he saw a bigger bone in the water. so he drop his to go get it. not realising that he was seeing his own bone, that showed up as a bigger bone in the water. Microsoft may be doing this to its self and not even realize it.

What about hose of us who PAY for the premium level of hotmail, meaning it ISN"T FREE. I have had the same email address for years, rather than using the ones offered by my provider. I have gone through several providers for one reason or another, including relocating.
Some may be confusing the issues, of going to the Hotmail website to check their mail, or using windows LOVE which does download and store the mail on the computer, which is ALWAYS my own preference as I have thousands of emails saved as a matter of record and reference form years past. I know how to find and keep them backed up to save against loss.
The newest version of Windows Live doesn't display the SED/RECEIVE button to allow me to force a mail check before the scheduled check. How do I get that back? And the text in emails that I reply to has gotten more difficult to manipulate with cutting, pasting, deleteing. Such a pain! Outlook Express is working with hotmail again so I guess I'll just use that old program again.

I am a paid hotmail subscriber (for about 3 years), and I recently had to upgrade my Outlook with "Outlook connector" and for whatever reason only about half of my folders transferred on the first day it is five days later and the rest of the folders did finally show up. On day two I had emailed Hotmail support (starting with Microsoft help through the FAQ's, and then onto they question it did take some tie to wade through the webpages) and quickly did receive more useful information from them. Earlier in the year I had to use a lesser service than Hotmail, and what a painful experience it was it took hours to do minutes worth of work, and the company I was working for was paying for that service. There are services out there far worse than Hotmail. I was with Hotmail maybe a decade ago. I stopped using their service as it had become "the" spam address of choice. I recently tried their free service when my other email company was losing ground and emails, and they had not made any changes ever in the ten or so years I was with them. Hotmail impressed me so much that I became a paid subscriber. Some of their "improvements" I probably will not be able to use, but things do change and maybe even a dinosaur like myself will figure out how to make these features work for me.
Send your complaints and suggestions for improvement to Microsoft, somebody apparently is there wading through all of the stuff we send them.

There is MANY people CLEARLY asking why there folders have disappeared from there hotmail accounts. You avoid answering the question and point them in the direction of "How can I get the old Windows Live Hotmail back?" page where you rant on about if you’re not happy with hotmail then stop using it.
The reason people want the old hotmail back is because they want their folders that are full of important emails back.

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