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Alright. First of all, I have a similar issue as http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-program/windows-live-essentials-2012-does-not-work/3cd18bbd-11a4-44c1-8b1b-f631e467a0a5
But my error code is different. Every time I try to start Mail, the process opens, opens wlstartup.exe, then they both close without a single indication to the user as to why. The only help is when they close, a message like the following appears in logs:
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* Log opened: 2012-11-09T02:58:37Z
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* Windows Live Mail 16.4.3505.0912
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[21:58:37.93] 15c0 Mail: Zone_MailChk ERROR: (wlupdate.inl:486), failed with 0x80004005
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* Log closed (normally) at 2012-11-09T02:58:44Z
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I do not know why this occurs, but that same error happens every single time I try to start Windows Live Mail 2012.
What does that error code mean? How can I solve this problem?
For reference, I have tried the following:
* uninstalling and reinstalling
* doing a clean uninstall.
* Renaming the account folder.
* a few other things
None of them worked. Is there any way to solve this issue?
If it helps, my original try of this was upgrading from WLE 2009.
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Hi Chris Eliopoulos,
Welcome to Microsoft Community.
If you're getting the same error 0x80004005 in Windows Live Mail, please refer to this thread for the suggested solution and guide for editing registry key.
We are looking forward on the status of this issue.
Thanks,
Which Reg keys specifically?
=D I fixed the problem by deleting the Windows Live registry key. My problem is solved. I'm not sure why this fixed it, but I'm glad it did =)
