How do I disable Windows Live Mail and use Hotmail?

maeiou

I have a nine month old Laptop running windows 7 that uses Windows live mail as the default email and I have my hotmail accounts - 5 hotmail email addresses for different family members. I do not like the way the windows live adds attachments and photos to my emails with the the skydrive - it annoys me no end!
Is it possible to just have a regular hotmail account that will attach files and photos without all the skydrive etc?
If so How do I go about changing things please?

jayme1

maeiou wrote: »

I have a nine month old Laptop running windows 7 that uses Windows live mail as the default email and I have my hotmail accounts - 5 hotmail email addresses for different family members. I do not like the way the windows live adds attachments and photos to my emails with the the skydrive - it annoys me no end!
Is it possible to just have a regular hotmail account that will attach files and photos without all the skydrive etc?
If so How do I go about changing things please?

you can't stop it by default but you can stop it on a per email basis by following the method in this link http://www.kanyak.com/noskydrive.html

maeiou

thanks for the info and your help I will try it next time I send one:beer:

vyle

You just click to add attachment and open the file rather than dragging and dropping... I was training someone how to do it the other day, it's not something that even needs disabling really, you just add attachment.