Hi Pepene,
Welcome to the forum.
Since you have a Hotmail account, you might consider switching to Windows Live Mail Beta 2 (
WLM) instead of Windows Mail. This way Windows Live Messenger will open the Hotmail inbox in WLM instead of IE7.
WLM supports Pop3, IMAP, HTTP website (EX: Hotmail) email, and is a lot more stable. Plus, WLM will minimize to a tray bar icon and has a separate Inbox for each account. WLM will automatically import Windows Mail messages, accounts, and settings into it.
Contacts will have to be manually imported from within WLM. (Tools, Contacts, File, Import, Address book for current Windows User.) To see the
Menu bar, press ALT+M and check "Show all menus".
For US and UK (32 bit Vista): http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas For US and UK (64 bit Vista): Windows Live Beta 2 Suite Downloads For non-US and non-UK locations (direct download): http://g.live.com/1rebeta/WLM_en-us
Shawn