{"id":449,"date":"2022-03-12T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2025-04-19T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:38:11","slug":"what-is-windows-live-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/what-is-windows-live-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Windows Live Mail? Everything you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Windows Live Mail previously known as Window Mail desktop is a free email client developed by Microsoft. It is a successor to both Outlook Express in Windows XP and Windows Mail in Vista. It is an easy-to-use desktop email program that lets you send and receive emails including calendar and conversation view, as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/what-is-windows-live-mail.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-456\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows Live Mail is designed to run on&nbsp;Windows 7 and 8 but compatible with later versions also. WLM is part of the&nbsp;Windows Essentials 2012&nbsp;suite, which includes several fine programs like Live Mail, Live Writer, photo Gallery and One Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows Live Mail 2012 is a discontinued freeware email but will not stop working, and you can still use it to download emails from any standard email service. However, a lot of users looks for solution to migrate from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/mbox.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/mbox.php\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Live mail to Thunderbird<\/a> or Outlook, so that they can use a more advance features provided by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Default Location of Windows Live Mail is:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Location of Window Live Mail file depends on where you have installed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>For Vista or Windows 7<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; C:\\Users\\(username)\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows Live Mail<\/li><li><strong>For XP&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; C:\\DocumentsandSettings\\uname\\LocalSettings\\ApplicationData\\Microsoft\\WindowsLive Mail<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows Live Mail<strong>\u2019s special and unique features:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Besides e-mail and instant messaging Windows Live Mail also have several added features such as word processing with online services such as file sharing, blogs and off-site file storage. Users can access some of these services online while downloading others to their hard drives.<\/li><li>It offers feature of photo-email by which we can send and receive good quality image via attachment in the email.<\/li><li>It supports several programs like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus and more in one place which allows you to download mail from several other accounts in one single window and can even access your emails, calendar and contacts etc. offline.<\/li><li>Windows Live Mail has enhanced security features as it has been equipped with antivirus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to backup Window live mail?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/email\/what-is-an-eml-file\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/email\/what-is-an-eml-file\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EML (.eml)<\/strong><\/a> is the extension file for a Windows Live Mail data file. EML allows users to easily move from one application to another to share and store information as EML files are supported by different emailing clients like&nbsp;Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/email\/what-is-apple-mail\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/email\/what-is-apple-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Mail<\/a> and others but not in MS Outlook. For that Windows Live mail contains an export wizard, by using this manual method you can easily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/pst.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/pst.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>export the windows live mail in PST file format<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Launch Windows Live Mail email and click on&nbsp;<strong>\u201cExport email\u201d in File menu<\/strong><\/li><li>&nbsp;Then choose \u201c<strong>Email messages<\/strong>\u201d option<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-451\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Now in Window Live Mail dialog box, choose the&nbsp;<strong>Microsoft Exchange<\/strong>&nbsp;option and click on&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Next, you will see a message pops up, click Ok on it to proceed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Now, select the folders you want to backup. After that, choose&nbsp;<strong>selected folder<\/strong>&nbsp;option and then click&nbsp;<strong>Ok<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Select Outlook and Ok<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Now the process gets started, wait until it gets completed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wlm-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You can now use Outlook Import-Export utility to add these PST files in Outlook.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily backup Windows Live Mail for free by using this manual method, but it is little time consuming and have high risk of data loss. To ensure security of your data you can use any <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/pst.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.magustools.com\/eml-conversion\/pst.php\" target=\"_blank\">EML to PST converter Tool<\/a> available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no limitation with such tools because they work with utmost efficiency and make sure complete data gets converted into PST formats. On the contrary, you can also convert PST file or <a href=\"https:\/\/magustools.com\/ost-conversion\/eml.php\"><strong>OST file into EML file<\/strong><\/a> format. This helps you read the emails within OST file in windows live mail or any other applications which support EML file format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Live Mail previously known as Window Mail desktop is a free email client developed by Microsoft. 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