Windows Live

In late 2005, Microsoft released dozens of services for its users under one name, Windows Live.

With this overriding name in place, Microsoft has been able to first re-brand older services to fit inside the Windows Live umbrella, then develop other products which integrate easily with the new and old services provided by the multimedia giant. Some of the products which fall under this heading include: Windows Live Account, Windows Live Gallery, Windows Live Hotmail, and Windows Live OneCare, and Windows Live Photos.

Other categories of services Microsoft under this brand name include products for the mobile user, software support, themes, and Live Labs.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Windows Live”

• Live Mail Trashes Folder Names!

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  For many years, I have been using underscores before a group name in order to change the sort order to the way I like, i.e., If I need a temporary group to hold bad addresses, I may create a folder called "_______Bad Addresses." I use the number of underscores to control the position in the list. Unfortunately, when I ...
  2 hours ago

• Section 8 Gets an Update

  
  www.GamesAreEvil.com — Authority: 143
  Well, after the first month of play, Timegate and Southpeak have taken all the feedback on board and produced the first patch for Section 8. They have tweaked their asses off to try and re-balance the massive multiplayer battles. The new update includes: Tank controls have been tuned, making them more intuitive ...
  3 hours ago

• messages missing from inbox

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  When you say they are disappearing, do you see them once? View | Show Or Hide. Is Show All Messages checked and nothing else? Double check your settings with these. Setting up Optimum Online in Outlook Express: http://optimum.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...ZP7Ki&p_lva=27 -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ...
  4 hours ago

• Problem clicking links within WLM

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  I suddenly started having this error message with WLM this week and I have made no changes to my system. "there was a problem sending the command to the program" This happens on any link in any email, whether its a simple text email or flash-rich type. Im running Win 7 Pro 64-bit. Auto-updates are on, windows ...
  5 hours ago

• Very confused

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  I have a live account. a while back in outlook it seems like somehow this account was added. I dont remember. My problem right now is that if I click a link in a web page to email, it opens up windows live mail in an outlook type format screen. the problem is it is sending from my yahoo and Ive apparently entered ...
  8 hours ago

• WLM doesnt detect my soundcard or USB headset

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  Hi: I run windows 7 32 bits and the latest version of Live messenger. I cannot get the audio to work (I have no webcam, so I dont know about the video part). When I want to setup audio using the wizard it tells me it cannot do so. When i try talking to someone it says I have no soundcard in my system. As a matter of ...
  8 hours ago

• Show Alerts from Windows Live Calendar

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  How do I get alerts from WL Calendar shown? What alternatives are available?
  13 hours ago

• Download New “Outlook Connector” v14 for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta

  
  Tweaking with Vishal — Authority: 470
  If you are using recently released Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and want to access your Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook 2010, you should install the new updated version of Outlook Connector. Microsoft has updated Outlook Connector to version 14 which is compatible with Outlook 2010 Beta.A few AskVG readers ...
  14 hours ago

• Windows Live Hotmail.mp4

  
  Windows Operation System — Authority: 161
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• Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail Comparison

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 166
  Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using? Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the three most popular web based email service providers Gmail , Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. This question might have become insignificant in recent ...
  16 hours ago

• I got an invitation...from Michele Martinez

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  to join her Windows Live network to chat. Is this genuine from Microsoft? What is that about? Will like to inform myself a little bit about it before I accept it. Thanks in advance.
  16 hours ago

• MinimizeToTrayPlus Lets You Minimize The Applications To The System Tray !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  MinimizeToTrayPlus is one of the useful extensions for minimizing Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird to the tray. In this addon, you can have a number of quick and flexible ways to do this function. Therefore, you can use the Minimize To Tray option from the File Menu. Instead, you can press Ctrl+Shift+M on your keyboard. ...
  19 hours ago

• HELP - Want OLD View & Preferences Back

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  Hubby "helped" fix my laptop to handle network issues, and closed lots of TSR stuff on my bottom taskbar. That included my perfectly configured "old style view" quick link to Hotmail. Now I have a huge screen that is hard to read, and my messages open automatically - that is something I wish to avoid at all costs. ...
  21 hours ago

• no sound everyday

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  I asked this question some time ago and still no soultion!! I have messenger 2009. Everyday I have to do a repair to get the sound notifications. I had sound with the version of 8.5. What is the problem? Vista Home Premium that is current NIS 2010 IE 7 speakers are turned on and they work fine!!!
  22 hours ago

• Retracting Sent e-mails

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  Only in a very few instances, in an intra-office environment. Not out in the internet. -- Windows 7 Ultimate http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "Tommy" wrote in message news:968747D5-E21C-4D81-9AA7-... > Is there a way to retract a e-mail that has been sent to someone?
  1 day ago

• Contacts Access

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  How does one just open the contacts, without having to load Live Mail first? Thx. -- Stephen Goodman http://www.vimeo.com/spgoodman http://www.myspace.com/spgoodman
  1 day ago

• hiden windows live mail messages

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  64 bit Windows 7 + Windows Live Mail with gmails pop3 and the following problem.. It seems that depending on the live mails mood, new messages in the inbox are shown or not. At program startup i can see that wlm downloading lets say 5 new messages but none of them will be shown in the inbox. If wlm are not in mood to ...
  1 day ago

• How do I set the view to only show UNread news?

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  hallelujah. thanks. "Ian Cockram" wrote in message news:... > > You may need to enable the menu bar first. Top right click the down button > on the menus bar....its to the left of the blue help circle.....then > click on show menu bar. > > Then as Bruce suggested: View | Show Or Hide. Check: Hide ...
  1 day ago

• Suddenly I cannot hear other person with Windows Line Messenger 20

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  I am using Windows 7 Pro and suddenly I cannot hear the other person when using Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Build 14.0.8089.726). Skype works fine. Messenger worked fine. Could this be an update that caused this it happen?
  1 day ago

• Importing .ics Files Into Calendar

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 169
  Ignore my last post. Importing can only be done on the live calendar. In Help, Import calendars from third-party calendar programs and the web -- Ron Sommer MS MVP-Mail "Ron Sommer" wrote in message news:... > Alt + F, Import. > -- > Ron Sommer > MS MVP-Mail > > "cliff" wrote in message > ...
  1 day ago

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