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Very interesting. I was not given an option to sign in, as used to be the case with OE 6.
OE never had a "sign-in" since it did not have the "Windows Live" features. However, they both have a "login" to each of your email accounts so that you can access your email service providers. "Sign-in" refers to using your "LiveID" to use the "contacts.live.com" website for duplicating your contact list on-line and for the Photo-email feature where emailed photos are viewed and saved on Microsoft servers (SkyDrive). To enable sign-in you must go to the Connections tab under options.
Go to WLM options/connections/"connecting to Windows Live Services" and push the "sign-in..." button. I don't use Messenger and Spaces either, but if you have WLM then you also have a LiveID and access to PhotoEmail and the Contacts web synchronization feature. You will only see one contact list at a time depending on whether or not you are signed-in.
I accept that OE did not have a "sign in", but it did have the facility to set up a password to access your account, thus making it more difficult for anyone else to access it. I cannot find any similar facility on Windows Live Mail which means that if I leave my computer unattended anyone can read my emails simply by clicking on the Live Mail icon. Not very satisfactory!
I have no recollection of using a Windows Live ID to sign in to Windows Live Mail and I am not able to find the page in your image in order to uncheck the "remember password" box. I do not use Windows Live, apart from Windows Live Mail.
The image shown was the window that shows up if you don't already have your password remembered and you attempt to sign in. In order to stop signing in automatically you need to go to Options/Connection Tab and push the "stop signing in" button. Keep in mind that if you stop signing in your contact list will switch to the "not signed in" list, which may be empty if you have been signing in. So you will have to import your list from an export you make of your contacts prior to selecting "stop signing in". There are two disadvantages to not signing in with respect to contacts: first, you need to backup your contacts manually since they will no longer be synchronized with the "contacts.live.com" website; second, the export copy is unable to save the way your contacts are grouped into categories, so when you use the backup you will have all the contacts but not grouped into categories, so you will have to re-group them. Another less important disadvantage is loosing Photo Email which comes in handy for sending large numbers of photos that collectively may exceed your allowed email file size.