Windows Live Mail remove and reinstall

Hello Jim mate how did you get back to 7? as there seems to be a plethora of folks who have done what you did and now have issues.

Personally I like to wipe the drive first then reinstall 7 - a pain I know but I have this theory maybe wrongly that 10 leaves remnants which muck up any return to 7 but that is just my own view.

Any time I have tried 10 and gone back to 7 after I encountered the same sort of stuff the first time I tried 10 I have done what I have advised above and now no problems.

I am also assuming you have run these too
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Disk Check < if necessary include the /f and /r in the command line as per Option2

if no change then try these
SUPERAntiSpyware | Remove Malware | Remove Spyware - AntiMalware, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware!
Malwarebytes | Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium
AdwCleaner Download
ADW download from bleeping computer delete any rubbish found with the malware scans
NB If anyone who has Kaspersky as their security they may find it will not like ADW running and to stop the nagging just temporarily disbale the Kaspersky while one runs ADW

I meant to add above that I like to clone the original drive to try stuff out like 10 on the clone that way you can still revert back to the original drive if you are not happy with the trial of whatever say even a dual boot system.

Jim I am not sure of why the WLM is not downloading those previous emails as I have done re installs many times and the mails have always come back on my accounts and I can only think that the 10 upgrade is till playing with the system somehow.

I think a drive wipe either with DISKPART or the Partition Wizard on that drive before re installing 7 is the way to go as I mentioned is what I always do - not that I have messed in 10 that much but I am pedantic about getting rid of remnants of any other system even Linux when I have been using it.

To wipe the drive you will need a machine to do that from unless you buy a completely new drive and a SSD would be the way to go but that depends on the budget of course.

I am as a matter of fact I am trying Linux Mint out now on my secondary laptop and in case I do not keep it although it is looking better the more I try it - I do have the original drive with 7 that I can just flip back into the machine.

Lykele said:

I upgraded to Windows 10 and didn't like it and came back to Windows 7. Not sure what happened, but my Windows Live Mail loaded up hundreds of messages I had deleted previously. In trying to delete them I encountered "an unexpected error has occurred". Anyway that is the background.

I removed Windows Live Mail then reinstalled. Same story when I started up the new version. So I'm guessing there are some other files that are holding all this information I also need to remove so that Windows Live Mail starts out completely clean. Anyone know what they are? I did delete the folder Window Live Mail under AppData, but that wasn't enough.

Thanks for any advice.

Jim

Regarding your problem with the reloaded emails, I think that your email service provider does not delete the mail that you download to Live Mail. There is a setting that can be changed to delete the messages.

I have seen in the past where I would get that error when trying to delete a message. I found I could just drag it to the Deleted Items folder and then hit the x and it was gone.

Jim

Just another thought too it has occurred to me that M$ have been pushing Outlook too and maybe the 10 upgrade has got it so corrupted it will not let you download past mail from WLM.

For example on my secondary laptop I had to install Outlook from Microsoft to be able to use some Samsung software and when I used my main email account as a secondary mail source it would not download the past WLM mail of any sort. The strange thing is I have to login into Outlook using my main email account as the username