Windows 10: Outlook update

So exactly what is the problem? Where do you see Outlook? How do you check your email? Do you still use three different email addresses? Why?

 

Just a little note to this post. I have had one email address since 1992. It is the only email address that I have ever had, so in over two decades I have had just this one email address. With that one email address I have bought and sold about a dozen cars, about 1,000 CDs and books and I have performed all of my personal and business communications. Just because you are going to perform a new transaction does not mean that you have to create a new email address.

If you create a new email address it is your responsibility to maintain it. The world does not have an infinite amount of email addresses. There is a finite amount of email addresses. So you always have to think responsibly when ever you create a new email address.

 

I never installed Outlook, it takes me there when I hit the bookmark "Hotmail". I just keep getting a msg telling me Outlook needs to be updated, why update something that I don't use but was told if I didn't keep it I wouldn't be able to get updates from Microsoft, not sure how true that is, but I'm certain I was told that by someone from Microsoft.

 

I think that we are making headway. So you are checking your email with a web browser? You do not use the built in Windows 10 email app, right? Which web browser do you use? Which web site are you visiting? It sounds like you are using outlook.com as a website to check your email, correct?

1. You are using Windows 10?
2. You do not use the built in mail app?
3. Which web browser are you using?

 

I receive email through Windows Live Mail which I have been doing for quite a long time but it is also coming into Outlook, I'm receiving duplicates, I'll keep the outlook acct but just how do I stop it from receiving email, our main email acct is WLM. I've searched youtube for answers but everything I tried does not work, must be old postings.

If I do a reset will this solve the problem, because I had no problems till this past May when I got updates?

 

So you do have Outlook installed on your computer? Outlook is a mail app.

Also, Windows Live Mail (WLM) is not an acct. it is an app. It does not have any accounts attached to it, you can use it as an app to view your email.

 

Open your store app and see if there are any updates available for your Windows Live Mail.

 

No I didn't see any but it did tell me it wasn't connected, it was not online, I just clicked to refresh the page. I also just about 20 min ago went into Outlook and there were maybe 20 emails there but on the left side of the page the inbox had a # of 188, I saw the word more and I got 188 emails that have been sitting there for over a month. So now I guess I'll be back to getting duplicates. I just won't look at it anymore, let it fill up I'm sick of it all.

 

If I do a restore will all the updates I've received since Last July be gone, or are they all now combined? I just want to rid myself of this problem and I can't find an answer.

 

I am so very sorry. This post leaves me wondering what your problem is and what you are trying to say. I will have to leave your problem to somebody else because I have no clue what your problem is or what you are trying to do.

Bennett

 

My problem is.....I am getting the exact same emails in 2 different accounts, WLM, which I prefer and Outlook which I do not want But I will keep it since Microsoft tells me I will no longer get updates unless I have a Microsoft account, I just want the duplicates to stop.

 

Laserbeam125, as you were told previously, Microsoft Office Outlook (aka Outlook) and Windows Live Mail (WLM) are merely applications that up- & download messages from your email mailboxes on any ISP -- including Microsoft's service formerly known as Hotmail, but is now called Outlook.com. (I share your aggravation at how MS has confused everyone by reusing the Outlook name.)

Because you use both applications to access the same mailbox on the same ISP, the same messages will always be downloaded to both applications, unless you delete them from the mailbox in the 1st application before the 2nd application is run. Yes, there's a strong likelihood that a lot of unwanted duplicate messages will download when you run the 2nd application, because you may not have "emptied your trash" before you exited the 1st application. (Also, Google the differences between IMAP and POP3.)

Like Rocky, I'm unclear whether your mail mailboxes are, in fact, on Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, or another ISP like Gmail or Yahoo. Please confirm this, since it affects how you configure your email application(s) for your mail account.

BTW, since WLM has been abandoned by MS almost a year ago, there definitely won't be any upgrades to it (or any other component of Windows Live Services).

 

Our mail comes through Comcast, in is IMAP...out is SMTP

You didn't answer weather or not a reset will fix anything?

 

As you have been told many times, there is no problem. You are confusing an app with an account. There is no relationship. You need to choose an app that you like and stick to it. You can use any app to access any account, you do not need to use so many apps.

 

Comcast is your ISP, not your email provider. Hotmail is an email provider, Comcast is just your ISP.