Links not hightlighted in Live Mail

They just appear as normal text and I have to cut and paste them into my browser.

Nice one, will do

This can sometimes happen even when sender and receiver are not using plain text. For example if there are no spaces before the link, WLM won't recognize it as a link. This is likely to happen if you type Google:www... instead of Google: www... into an email.

two fixes:

1) Right after the colon [:]add a space, then go back one space. That highlights the URL.

2) easy and best- enter the URL and hit ENTER. Yes that's all- it produces the highlighting.

Up till 5 days ago the highlighting was AUTOMATIC. Have no idea what caused the loss of this automatic function after 4 years.