hotmail has made me bald

Welcome,

The settings are very specific. You have to make sure all the right boxes are checked, all ports are correct, all secure servers, etc are proper. Question are you using the same iSP for both computers, ie one can be at work etc?

Hi westikle

Is hotmail the only email account you are useing?? If so there's really only one thing to set it up, your hotmail email address, password, the name you want shown, check the box to remember password and your done. If there are other accounts you want to set up come back and let us know.

westikle said:

thanks richard. these two computers are on the same isp. both connect to my wireless router at home. the only thing about making sure the settings are correct is, when you let WLM setup your hotmail account, you have no option to change or view settings. there is no advanced tab to make any corrections. the server it tries to connect to is "http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaS....0.0/sync.aspx." there is no ingoing or outgoing server or ports or anything. now i know i can manually configure the account and put hotmail's pop3 settings in, but, it still won't work correctly, plus, the laptop is not configured that way and has no problems.

OK, I must admit that although, I use WLM, I do not have a Hotmail account. I use GMS, which is fantastic. Found it through a recommendation, a while back. In any event, I was of the opinion that the settings, etc., had to be set up like other email accounts, but based upon your answer and Bowtie, that is not the situation.

If everything is set up automatically,it does not make any sense that it is not working properly. If you did not have another computer that works properly, I would suggest that the ISP is blocking one of the ports,which is obviously not the case.

My next suggestion was to do it yourself, but have already taken that action.

There is only one variable left, WLM. After trying everything, you will have time since you will not have to comb your hair, I would suggest reinstalling WLM. The coruption or cause of the problem could be there.

Although, I am sorry tht your are having this problem, this is the type of challenge that I like, as I know there is an answer. Keep us posted, I will keep thinking and hopefully before too much longer, you will be receiving a lot of good news via email.

- POP3 Server: pop3.live.com (port 995)
- SMTP Server: smtp.live.com (port 25)

{Note: If port 25 has been blocked in your network or by your ISP, you can set SMTP port to 587 with TLS or SSL Encryption depending on the client in use}

Note: Please make sure to check the box that indicates that your outgoing server requires authentication (in most e-mail clients, this is not checked by default).

- Send and Receive Windows Live Hotmail emails from a Mail Client - Mail and Settings - Windows Live Help

It's probably something simple, and you may have looked a hundred times, but perhaps you can't see the wood for the trees. Delete the account in WLM and start over using Manually configure server settings.

I've got Hotmail and Gmail configured with it with no issues.

Hopefully, the solution is simple. Either way let us know.Try system restore from before the bad uninstall. I want to know the results, for the future, so report back.

It will show as "Windows Live Services", so click on that, and it will give you option to uninstall one component or all of them.

Unless you have prob's uninstalling a program, why do you need a third party uninstaller. I have never used anything but add / remove or the one built in to Win 7, they just work.