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smactilactus said:

Just poking fun with ya. Not trying to be offensive. I guess it's like someone still driving a 1950's Edsel Ranger. Yeah, it'll get ya from point a to point b, but it's not as safe, economical or efficient as my Bimmer!

Wynona said: View Post
Ummm, I still have my original hotmail account from when I first started beta testing back in 1985 or so. I've pretty much used it exclusively as my Microsoft Account for Windows.xxx.

Wasn't 1985 that I first started using Hotmail, but it's been a long, long, long time. Even long term memory suffers with age.

Don't know nuttin' about the Edsel Ranger, but I do know about Hotmail. It was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California. I was using it when Microsoft bought it in 1997 and it's been called many things since then, but above all, it's been as safe as any other email service. From HoTMail, to MSN Hotmail, to Windows Live Hotmail, I've never had it spammed, which is saying a lot.

In 2013, Hotmail was "taken over" by Outlook.com. What this means is that although there's still a someone@hotmail.com email address, it's a part of Outlook.com.

When all is said and done, my hotmail.com email address is just as safe as anyone else's outlook.com email address.

Rocky said:

I thought HotMail was a porn thing.

There's also word HotRod but that's not what you may think either.

Rocky said:

I have my trusty old MSN mail account. Is this what you guys call HotMail? I thought HotMail was a porn thing.

Don't hold me to it, Rocky, since I've found that even my long term memory is no longer reliable . . .

I was on the beta of MSN, Outlook and several other apps way back then, and I'm not sure, but there may have been both an @msn.com and @HOTmail.com. I'm pretty sure, though, that at some point they were combined.

Fisher Mann said:

Had to change to normal start up from Fast. Intel video driver was not loading properly and everything was a weird mauve color
on some start ups.

Went from Live Mail to Outlook. I did like Live Mail a lot.

As a test, put it back to Fast. Let it reboot and get weird. Leave on Fast, but when you shutdown, hold the shift key when clicking Shutdown. Let it sit 15 seconds or so. Power back up and see if it's normal, with the Fast enabled. Holding the Shift while Shutting Down bypasses the hiberfil.sys writing, as if it were not enabled.