On 2021-02-08 1:36 p.m., US Janet wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:13:50 -0500, Dave Smith

>> I used Windows Live Mail with the old computers. It is now no longer
>> supported and not even available for download. They now have Outlook
>> mail. I much prefer the Live Mail, so I have been using Thunderbird for
>> mail as well as news groups because it is more like my old news reader.
>
> I haven't been able to activate Outlook email in Windows yet although
> I am using Outlook on my old computer thanks to cloned drive. Office
> wants to do everything for you even if you don't want it done.
> Everything has been simplified beyond simple. I'm afraid to open my
> tablet for fear of what has happened there. I'm operating on my old
> computer -- should have just saved the money I spent on a new laptop.
> NOTE: write to Help and tell them to give you a key. It's their
> problem, not yours.
>

Oh yeah... that was another of my problems. When I got the laptop it set
up a lot of things, including my Outlook email account. I was
impressed. When I got the desk top and got it going it seemed to be
going through the same process. However, there was no email downloaded.
I sent myself an email to test it. It went to the lap top and my cell,
but not to the desktop. I then set went to my wife's profile to set up
her email. It seemed to work. A bunch of emails were downloaded, but
then I realized there had only been a a dozen emails in the in box and
they were from 2016-17.I figured that I had to edit the POP and SMTP
server settings but could not find them in Outlook.

After a lot of looking around the net for advice I found out that I
had to go back to the computer's Windows settings, accounts..... I
made the changes there, then went back to Outlet, deleted my email
account and then set up a new one. Windows took over and ... voila...
Outlook mail was working.