Windows Live e-mail address

[Maggie472]

When Windows Live e-mail message offered to make it my principal e-mail I
clicked yes. But when it came to entering my address it rejected the address
I've been using forever! What should I enter as my new address?
I have Vista Home Premium.

 

[Dave]

Are you trying to set up Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail?
Who provides your email account?

 

[Maggie472]

The mailbox in the tool bar is MSN Mail - MSN Explorer. I thought I had
previously set up Windows Live and got to it with an icon on my desktop, but
this morning when I clicked on the icon got the message about making Windows
Live as the principal e-mail. I hope this answers your question

 

[Dave]

No, I'm confused.
I thought MSN Explorer was a version of Internet Explorer that could access
a MSN/Hotmail webmail account. And I didn't think it works on Vista.

This group is for Windows Mail, which is Vista's replacement for Outlook
Express.

The term "Windows Live" is ambiguous, since there are a whole host of
Windows Live products.

If you installed Windows Live Mail, then it should be able to access your
MSN/Hotmail/Live email account. But probably not thru MSN Explorer, as it's
a standalone program.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

"Windows Live" is not a program, it is a whole suite of different programs,
see http://get.live.com .
If you mean Windows Live Mail, that program is covered in a different
newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Maggie472]

Now I'm really confused! My tool bar's mail is MSN Explorer. What the new
one is Windows Mail. I don't know what it replaced. I would like to use the
new one (Windows Mail) , but I don't know how to get the e-mail address to
use it. It rejects my old one. My question is, how do I get a new e-mail
address.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you have a msn.com, hotmail.com, or live.com email address, it
won't work in Windows Mail. To use one of those email addresses, you
have to download and install Windows Live Mail:

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)

Now I'm really confused! My tool bar's mail is MSN Explorer. What the new
one is Windows Mail. I don't know what it replaced. I would like to use the
new one (Windows Mail) , but I don't know how to get the e-mail address to
use it. It rejects my old one. My question is, how do I get a new e-mail
address.

 

[Maggie472]

Thank you. I installed Windows Live Mail without any problems, and I
don't have to change my e-mail address. I would like it to be the default
e-mail.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Installing Windows Live Mail should make it the default automatically.
Do you have any reason to believe it is not the default email program?