Hotmail classic or advanced full view. How to change?

Lady_K

My hotmail windows live account has been updated and I can't find how to swap from classic to full or vice versa. I'm not sure what I'm on either as it doesnt say anywhere but I always chose classic before as I'm on the 2gb broadband it just seemed better for me.

I vaguely rember seeing a swp icon where it now says 'so wjhat do you think?' in the lower left corner but I can't find an option to switch anywhere or anything in the help section. I hope it wasn't a one time option as when you first log in on the new one you just don't do everything straight away

sunshine54

i dont like the look and feel of the new hotmail.
i think the classic and full option has been removed and replaced with this update. it is supposed to combine the benefits of the two.
hope it improves

thor

I don't know why they bother. The previous version of hotmail was worse than the one that preceded that. Each update just makes it worse. If it ain't broke don't fix it MS!

Lady_K

Yes I see now they have done away with the classic view completely. I always used that one as it was quicker and the other one froze up for me.

This one is also freezing up completely every few minutes I hope that gets sorted. I prefer the simpler classic way less stuff to go wrong then

buglawton

Oddly enough the new style of Hotmail looks cheap and nasty compared to the old. Went to read some other chats about Hotmail and there seems to be almost no way to back up your old mails. So you should not be using Hotmail for anything important as tales of "all mail deleted" after you did not access your account for x days or after you lost your login details are all too common. Also if anyone knows of an efficient way to purge all ones oldest emails please announce!

Rock_Bottom

buglawton wrote: »

Oddly enough the new style of Hotmail looks cheap and nasty compared to the old. Went to read some other chats about Hotmail and there seems to be almost no way to back up your old mails. So you should not be using Hotmail for anything important as tales of "all mail deleted" after you did not access your account for x days or after you lost your login details are all too common. Also if anyone knows of an efficient way to purge all ones oldest emails please announce!

Click on the "Empty" button.

dawnie1972

Well i'm completely stuffed with the new version of hotmail! I can't reply to any emails! Its not allowing me to click into the area where you type your reply. I believe its something to do with a drop down box at the top that says Rich Text, HTML text, Plain Text and i've tried changing that but it won't let me!! Any help?>

jon_r_2

yep,same problem,when i type there is no cursor either,why cant they just LEAVE THINGS ALONE!

Old_Sherlock

Why not just download the desktop client.

Here

buglawton

Interesting, Live Mail as per above link can also download Gmail and Yahoo but only Premium paid for Yahoo Mail. Wonder if Ypops will be avail for Live Mail, it downloads non-paid Yahoo email.