Windows 10: Win Live Mail not letting me create new message

The Message store should be located at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail You will have to enable "show hidden files" to find it. Copy the whole folder somewhere else and backup your contacts first.

Several other things.
Windows Live Mail is no longer supported by Microsoft. So, there is no download link any longer.

If you have the offline installer, it can still be installed.

If you can install it, open it up for a minute after it is installed. That will cause it to create the C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail folder.

Close the whole program completely and go find the new Windows Live mail folder and delete it and replace it with the olde WLM folder you copied from your current installation.

All of your email accounts, folders and emails should be there next time you open it. All you will have to do is enter the email password for your email accounts.

 

As title says, I have recently experienced a problem with Windows Live Mail from essentials 2011 package.
I haven't changed any settings and its been working fine up until today.
I can receive normally, but if I try to reply to a message, or create a new email, I get a box saying "A problem occurred when trying to open this message. A problem has occurred. Please try again"

Is there a way of repairing the software without uninstalling and starting again.

I am running Windows 10 Home.

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Live Mail after Windows 10 download

After Win 10 download when using Live Mail messages disappear when creating new ones. It starts off OK but suddenly the new message disappears in the middle of composing the email.

 

Sending photos by email from Windows 10 Photo app

I have Windows 10. I have just installed Windows Live email on my new computer and made that as my default mail program. When I try to send a photo from the Windows 10 Photo app (Share/Mail), it will not use my default email program but wants me to create
new mail accounts (Message is: "First things first. let's add your accounts"). I tried just adding the accounts I have already created in Windows Live, but it does not recognize them. Any suggestions on how to deal with this would be most appreciated.

 

Welcome to tenforums. If you go to uninstall programs, select Windows Essentials, you should have an option to uninstall or repair.

 

On my Win10 Home, I get modify, or uninstall. The modify is greyed out and cannot be clicked.
It looks like uninstall and reinstall is the way forward, but will that pick up the message store it used before