New
#61
It's not for W10 ...Avoid Windows Live Mail 2012 patch KB 3093594 -- it freezes Windows | InfoWorld
Maybe so but I got it to work just fine simply by having a little patience. I opened WLM about 5 times after applying the update. Each time it would crash. I decided to just leave it alone and after about an hour tried it again and it then ran just fine. I will note here that I do not have any entries in the calendar so that might make a difference in the sync process. I suggest anyone having problems just let it sit overnight and see if it works.
Back on build 16.4.3528.0331 here until I need to update.
I have noticed an annoyance with the new build and that is that on nearly all e-mails containing images I need to approve of them. It gets tedious after a while. I hope that it will eventually learn what senders is safe so I do not have to do that anymore if not then I can not stand it and will go back to the older build.
I today also received an e-mail with an attachment that WLM refuse to read but that works just fine in the Mail 10 app. So I sent myself a test mail with an attachment to see if it was a general issue but my test mail works just fine. So do not know why that other e-mail is problematic!
WLM probably identified that particular attachment as potentially containing a virus (which of course doesn't mean that it does).
Click on File > Options > Safety Options, then click on the Security Tab. There's a checkbox next to the option "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus". Make sure that's unchecked, and you should be able to open any attachment.
Hi again,
Just received another post from Microsoft Community and it looks like I was right. This patch is not for Win 10. If you download it WLM will crash. There is an upcoming change to Outlook.com and it will be changing to Outlook Mail over the next while. The poster indicated the problems that will occur and that there may be a patch coming for Win 10. If you click on the link below you can follow up with the posts and the reasons for the patch.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...f-6f6bd6d63521
Hi ricky464 - thanks for passing along the info, but did you read the thread before posting? You're correct, the patch wasn't designed for Windows 10, but it's been mentioned several times before in this thread. Not to get Post-Police on you, just wouldn't want someone reading this entry in the thread and think that they have to dump WLM because they have Windows 10. There are two solutions for now:
1. Uninstall and re-install WLM through the Windows Essentials item in Add/Remove Programs, which will remove the patch and WLM will function until Microsoft decides to destroy the functionality.
2. Install the patch, let WLM crash, close it, re-open it, let it crash 10 times, and then leave it open after the next crash for 30 minutes or longer (the window containing "Debug or Close Program" will remain open). Close and re-open and it should work fine. This is what I (and several others) have done, and WLM is patched and running fine now.
I would expect Microsoft to fix the patch so that it functions on Windows 10, and with Microsoft email accounts that haven't yet been migrated to "Windows Mail (Preview)". But the timetable for that is unknown, and there's no guarantee they will fix the patch, so the solutions above will work in the meantime.