Windows 7 - how to get emails?

soon2bjobless

I have just got a new sparkley laptop with Windows 7 - have been fiddling about with it but am stumped as to how to send and receive emails! In the help it mentions Live mail but I cant find it! I use Outlook at work and my other computer uses Outlook Express - is there nothing like these in Windows 7
HELP!

Hammyman

Because people complained about MS bundling in software, things like an email client were left out. You can download one from http://get.live.com as part of the Windows Essentials package. I would also suggest getting the Photo Gallery software as well which is part of the same package as it has basic photo editing.

free4440273

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/ / very decent too/

SonjaLiK

I hate Live.
I've put an old Office on mine and installed Outlook, a few patches, updates etc. from Microsoft and all is fine again.

victor2

I'd also suggest Mozilla Thunderbird, but if you have a copy of office you can install with Outlook, that's even better. Thunderbird doesn't have a calendar, although you can add one with a bit of fiddling.

debitcardmayhem

The bird is the way to go + 1 from here and get lightning for calendar.

free4440273 wrote: »

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/ / very decent too/

debitcardmayhem

victor2 wrote: »

I'd also suggest Mozilla Thunderbird, but if you have a copy of office you can install with Outlook, that's even better. Thunderbird doesn't have a calendar, although you can add one with a bit of fiddling.

No fiddling get lightning from same source

jayme1

if you use hotmail then it integrates with live mail the best, also is fot install live photo gallery, live movie maker, and live mesh (backs up selected folders to the cloud), they all just are very nice programs for windows.

or usually the best interface is actually the webmail esp. for hotmail and gmail.

Andy_L

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

The bird is the way to go + 1 from here and get lightning for calendar.

another +1 for Tbird here. Although I use google calender instead as its the only way I can sync between my personal phone & works outlook calendar

Toxteth_OGrady

One excellent, freeware, lightweight email client with good functionality that is similar to Outlook Express is EM Client. I definitely recommend giving it a try. http://www.emclient.com/

:cool:

TOG

soon2bjobless

Gosh thank you for all the replies! I downloaded live mail - what a carry on! in the end I had downloaded it three times before I managed to get it to work - now have all sorts of stuff I didnt really want (messenger, bing tool bar and gawd knows what else!) I will see how I get on with it and also see what the other ones are like - thanks for the help everyone