On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:09:58 -0500, D.H. Cesare wrote:

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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"D.H. Cesare" wrote in message
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I installed Windows 7 Ultimate (trial) on my Acer laptop and now OE is
missing.
How do I go about getting OE installed on the machine?

When I tried to find it online, Microsoft suggested I use Windows Live
in place of OE. I installed Windows Live and set up the mail client,
but it doesn't work. I would like to use OE as my email client.

Windows Live is several programs.
Windows Live Mail is the email program.
What do you mean it doesn't work? Do you get any error messages?
You add accounts to WLMail almost the same as adding accounts to OE.

I know what Windows Live Mail is ...

Some people conflate "Windows Live" with "Windows Live Mail", just as the
conflate "MS Outlook" with "MS Outlook Express". It really helps, if you do
know what things are to call them what they are, and not use some creative,
personal shorthand which seems to indicate confusion.

... and I set it up just like you'd set up OE. Very simple to do;
emailuser namepasswordPOP3 addressSMTP addresssave password.
Nothing to it. After doing that it should sign into my primary email
account and retrieve messages.

Indeed; and so it worked when I set up a POP3 account.

It doesn't work. It doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and I don't know
why.

Nor do I, because it does work as expected for me.

When I bring up the email client it has a box to sign in. Same as Windows
Live Signin.

I don't get the same box with Windows Live Mail, as I get with a "Windows
Live" sign in. The latter is used with a browser, not an email client. Nor
do I get a place to enter a user name, just a splash screen announcing that
Windows Live Mail is signing in to the Windows Live Services. I can control
that behavior in the "ToolsOptionsConnection" section of Windows Live
Mail. At the bottom of that tab is a section labeled, "Connecting to Windows
Live services". I can either, "Sign in with another ID", or "Stop signing
in". If I choose the latter, I do not get the "Signing in to Windows Live ID
services" splash screen.

It also helps to point out that "Signing in to Windows Live services" is
*not* the same thing as signing in to an email account. And, if you do not
have a Windows Live ID (I have several), or do not wish to use one with
Windows Live Mail, you can disable it, as noted above.

But it will not allow me to signin. The box has a "grayed out" example user
name and a grayed out password. The cursor is flashing at the far left side of
the example user name. The cursor will not move and I cannot type anything in where
the samples are.

As a test, I would strongly suggest going to the "ToolsOptionsConnection"
menu of Windows Live Mail, and changing the "Connecting to Windows Live
services" by clicking on the "Stop signing in" button, followed by, "Apply",
and "OK". Close Windows Live Mail, restart Windows Live Mail, and report
back with the results of this test.

This should be way easy and it's not working the way it's supposed to work.

This is a new email client, designed to work with a new Microsoft online
service, and it is confusing as hell if you've never played with it before.
It works in a rather different manner than Mozilla Thunderbird. Don't worry;
I've been playing with another email client, bundled with the Opera browser,
and it is so different from anything I've used before that I keep forgetting
how to do things with that client.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum