"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 10/07/2017 10:28, Alaric wrote:
For many years I have used Windows Live Mail. However, I bought a new
Acer laptop last week and have been unable to install it because MS no
longer supports it. I tried to transfer it from my old computer but not
having the .exe file in my Downloads folder I am stumped. Can anyone
offer me guidance in this regard. I am computer literate but by no means
an expert. My thanks in advance.

This link still seems to allow a download:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...dows_live.html

(at your own risk and all that!)

A week or so ago I tried to install this download from majorgeeks on two
different PCs: one with Windows 7 and one with Windows 10. But it failed to
install, giving a fairly uninformative error message.

All I wanted it for was as a vehicle to read .eml files that had been made
on another PC and use its "export to MS Exchange" menu to get the email
messages into Outlook's .pst file. Outlook (incredibly) doesn't have its own
"import from eml" option, nor can you drag and drop eml files into an
Outlook mail folder because there is no converter present.

Eventually I had to download a paid-for program which can read eml files
from a folder and generate a brand new pst file containing the messages in a
mail folder. From there it is a simple matter to tell Outlook to open that
data file in addition to the one it is already using, select all the
messages and drag/drop them into the folder in the "real" pst file - then
discard the temporary pst file.