This category will teach you how to use E-Mail with the Windows Live Mail 2011 program (also known as an E-Mail Client). Although Windows Live Mail 2011 comes preinstalled with the latest computers running Windows 7, it may still need downloading if you are using an earlier edition of Windows 7 or Windows. So in this section I will show you how to download and install Windows Live Mail 2011.
Windows Live Mail 2011 has the job of sending and receiving your e-mail by communicating with the mail servers (e-mail computers) belonging to your
broadband company. When you sign up for broadband internet services for example that company (i.e. TalkTalk), also known as an ISP (Internet Service
Provider), has computers (servers/master computers) that are responsable for your e-mail.
One computer (the Incoming/Receiving Mail Server) is responsible for receiving your e-mail and storing it, until it is requested by Windows Live Mail 2011
or by a web browser such as Internet Explorer 9 (via WebMail - online e-mail). And the other computer (the Outgoing/Sending Mail Server) is responsible
for any e-mail you send, using Windows Live Mail 2011 or a web browser such as Internet Explorer 9 for example.
The above diagram (top-left) shows that you should start Windows Live Mail, Write (compose) an e-mail and then instruct windows live mail to SEND that
e-mail to your ISP's computer. Windows Live Mail communicates with your ISP's computer and gives it your e-mail account details along with the e-mail
itself. Your ISP's computer, which monitors all extended internet connections coming from Internet Explorer as well as from Windows Live Mail and so on,
then has to verify/authorize the received e-mail account's username & password and check the email for malware (viruses and so on) before it can then
forward your email to the recipients ISP's computer. An example of setting up an e-mail account is given in the next section.
Assuming the verification/authorization all went well, when the recipient's ISP computer receives the email it goes through a similar verification/authorization
process before putting the e-mail into the recipient's INBOX. So at this point, assuming all went well, your e-mail is now on your recipient's ISP computer
waiting to be downloaded (received) by them. When your recipient wants to receive their e-mail they have to launch Windows Live Mail first, on their
computer (shown above in blue, Recipient Starts Their Windows Live Mail), and then tell windows live mail to RECEIVE ALL e-mail. What happens next is that
their ISP's computer receives the RECEIVE ALL E-MAIL request from windows live mail, verifies/authorizes the request (by checking their e-mail account
details) and then sends (downloads) them their e-mails if all went well with the verification/authorization process. When they have received all of their
e-mails they should have the e-mail you sent amongst them.
| DOWNLOAD WINDOWS LIVE MAIL 2011 |
To download Windows Live Mail 2011 you first need to open your web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer or Firefox), type http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mail?os=other into its Address Bar edit box and then either click on the GO (blue arrow) button or press the ENTER keyboard key. Either way, you will end up on the Windows Live Mail 2011 Download web page.
When the download web page appears simply click on its DOWNLOAD NOW button to bring up your web browser's Information Bar options - RUN, SAVE and CANCEL
in the case of Internet Explorer 9. From there, to keep things simple for this example, just click on the RUN button to continue.
Clicking on the SAVE button will allow you to save (download to a specific folder) the 1.22MB executable Installation Wizard file called wlsetup-web.exe.
It is the Windows Live Essentials file that contains the necessary instructions to install programs such as Windows Live Mail 2011, MSN Messenger and
other windows tools via its built-in installation wizard. Once that .exe (executable) file has been saved, into your chosen folder, it's then up to you
to double click on it in order to launch/execute the installation wizard within it.
Clicking on the RUN button avoids the saving options/actions. The .exe file is downloaded (saved) into a temporary system folder, as opposed to your own
chosen folder, and then the installation wizard within it is automatically launched/executed (run) for you.
When the .exe file has finished downloading, from this point onwards, you might see a UAC (User Account Control) security requester appear (depending on your security settings and so on). If this is the case for you simply click on its CONTINUE/YES button to continue.
User Account Control (UAC) is a feature of Windows 7 that helps to prevent unauthorized changes to the computer, such as deleting a system file or installing some software. When attempting to install some software the UAC security requester will automatically block you off, because it wants to know if you are the one attempting to install that software and not a piece of malicious software for example. So if a UAC Security Requester does appear simply click on its CONTINUE/YES button to continue.
Regardless if any UAC security requester appears or not, either way the next window you will see is the Windows Live Essentials window with the first
step (window) of its installation wizard displayed (Fig 1.4 below). It asks you if you want to install all of the windows live essentials programs
(Windows Live Mail 2011, Windows Live Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and so on) or just a selection of the windows live essentials programs.
For this example click on the option called CHOOSE THE PROGRAMS YOU WANT TO INSTALL. This option then allows you to deselect (untick) the programs you
don't want installed and therefore leave the programs you do want installed selected (ticked).
With only the MAIL option ticked (above) click on the INSTALL button (below) to begin the installation of Windows Live Mail 2011. You can always install the other programs later, if need be, by following these steps again.
That's it! Windows Live Mail 2011 has been successfully installed......but you will still need to set up an e-mail account within Windows Live Mail 2011 in order to use it. This is explained in the next section.
Microsoft product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation. As stated here by the Microsoft Corporation.
