There was an update to Windows Essentials recently (Feb 2014). When installed it deleted Windows Live Mail and left me with no access to email.
This was VERY bad for me as I needed to receive a ferry ticket immediately. I used System Restore to go back to the previous state and everything was OK but it took a long time and was very worrying. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't even know what Windows Essentials is nor whether I need it. I will not take any further updates until I can have some sort of assurance that this will not happen again.
System is:- Windows 8.1;
email is;- Windows Live Mail 2012 version 16.4.3508.0205