I think I heard him say they would eventually do away with hotmail??? I was having a sound problem. When I first got this PC with W 7 I had to download window live mail and it was so congested/complicated and took a lot of work for me to adjust to it. It came in a suite with other things I didn't want, like messenger. I recently reformatted my PC and I did not find that suite. What I did find was a very simple email much like Outlook express. I think a lot of people were complaining about it and they changed it. If that is so they do listen to the user every once in awhile. LOL

I'm sorry I think this is user set up error here. After the creation of a message rule did you select the "Apply Now" button? Did you select all the "OK" buttons when exiting? I ask as I have been remiss in clicking all the necessary buttons when building a rule, and it has failed. In your frustration to get the message rule option to work, did you create multiple entries for the same rule? If so, remove all but one. In a last ditch effort you could remove all the message rules and start from the beginning. DA

You can have your email enabled in your My Page page, so that people can click on your name, and then will be able to email you directly. You must do the following four things; if you didn't do even one of the 4, your email won't show up in your My Page page: At the bottom of the Kitchens Forum page, click where it says "Member Services". Then click where it says "Edit your Personal Information, Page and Preferences". Then, log in, and do the following: 1) Type in your email address in both boxes. 2) Near the bottom of that same page, there is a pull-down menu for "Show my email address to", that gives you the option of "None" or "Members" or "All". Click on "Members", and make sure "Members" stays in that view box. 3) Where it says "allow other users to send you email via forms at our site", click on that box (a check appears). AND 4) Click on the box that says "Save your Member Profile". Again, if you omitted any ONE of the above steps, your email option will not appear on your page.

Outlook Express is a free email program produced by Microsoft. Sounds like your original program might be corrupted, so you could try downloading a clean version (it's free). Hopefully the new version will copy across all the messages and addresses from your old version (fingers crossed), but it's a good idea to print out anything you might miss if it were lost. Then you can download the version of Outlook Express that suits your operating system (Windows or Mac). Many sites offer Outlook Express for downloading, incuding MS itself (www.microsoft.com). I used to use Tucows (URL shown below). Here is a link that might be useful: Tucows