Hey gang,
So having Windows 8.1 for a couple of days now, have been playing around with it some. I am thinking I may be getting ahead of myself, but if I could I would like to ask clarification on a couple of things?
First off, I have had an existing Hotmail email addy for some time. So I entered that in the Mail app, and I guess it coverted now my Windows 8 logon to reflect my Hotmail account when I sign on now. So does that mean I am always connected now to Hotmail, or Outlook.com?
Next up, I see the below screen when I click on the mail tile:
Now to the right there, under basics, it shows a square that says Outlook with a down arrow I could select to " hop between" those items. But this screen is what comes up when I click the mail tile, not that one showing " Outlook" or any drop down arrow.
And if I open up a window there, find it hard to know how to close it at all, end up hitting windows key to get back to start menu...
In other words, I be confused!!
So what have I done to myself, by setting up this mail thing in Windows 8?
Before I built this new machine and installed it couple days ago, I was using Thunderbird to get both my Hotmail and Comcast emails and to send them... this is very new to me.
Any guidance at all, would be very appreciated!
Thanks,
- Don
So having Windows 8.1 for a couple of days now, have been playing around with it some. I am thinking I may be getting ahead of myself, but if I could I would like to ask clarification on a couple of things?
First off, I have had an existing Hotmail email addy for some time. So I entered that in the Mail app, and I guess it coverted now my Windows 8 logon to reflect my Hotmail account when I sign on now. So does that mean I am always connected now to Hotmail, or Outlook.com?
Next up, I see the below screen when I click on the mail tile:
Now to the right there, under basics, it shows a square that says Outlook with a down arrow I could select to " hop between" those items. But this screen is what comes up when I click the mail tile, not that one showing " Outlook" or any drop down arrow.
And if I open up a window there, find it hard to know how to close it at all, end up hitting windows key to get back to start menu...
In other words, I be confused!!
So what have I done to myself, by setting up this mail thing in Windows 8?
Before I built this new machine and installed it couple days ago, I was using Thunderbird to get both my Hotmail and Comcast emails and to send them... this is very new to me.
Any guidance at all, would be very appreciated!
Thanks,
- Don
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self Made
- CPU
- I7 4820K
- Motherboard
- EVGA X-79 Dark
- Memory
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 16 gb 2133 mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX 770 4GB
- Browser
- IE11
- Antivirus
- Defender