As Outlook Express is closing next month I recently installed Windows Live Mail on my desktop, and successfully set up my gmail and Hotmail email accounts there and everything is working fine, and I receive and send all my emails through it, and can store messages in offline files. In fact I now prefer it to Outlook Express and wish I done it ages ago.

I’m now in Bangkok with my poor old laptop, and yesterday I set up Windows live mail on this machine as well.

The gmail works fine, but I am having problems, with the Hotmail account. I have set it up, and it displays everything except the contents of each message. I have all other details, such as date/from/to/subject – but no message details. I just get this message:

Message could not be displayed

Windows Live Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.

My hard disc shows 6 GB available on C, and 13 GB available on D.

I have hundreds downloaded of messages on my gmail account and all are displayed with no problems, so why should this happen on Hotmail? To make matters worse, now, even if I just click my mail account in Windows messenger, I still don’t get message the details. The only way I can now access the messages on this PC is to log in via Firefox browser.

I have already deleted and re-installed several times, and get the same result each time.

Any suggestions? Is it disc space or something else?

Thanks

Hello

I had this problem loooong time ago and NEVER got a solution to it. If you dig a bit for threads started by me you can find it, and here's a link to some sort of blog or whatever on Microsoft's support site by me:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...p;sloc=&p=1

Now what i have done on Linux you can do on Windows: Download Thunderbird (from Mozilla) and get the "Webmail" and "Hotmail" extensions. Google for how to correctly get it set up (i would do it for you but i am out of time right now, it's easy to find nevertheless) and enjoy your Hotmail

I am still wondering how a free application on an open-source OS can do BETTER with a Microsoft service than a Microsoft application on a Microsoft OS..........

Best regards.....

Thanh