Windows Live Mail asking for username & password

Brennub

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Today when my father went to open his windows mail account, the program opened. It asked him for a username and password, and it has never done this before. According to him he does not know of any such passwords exsistence. However, I believe he might not realize there is one (I mean, there has to be..... I do not see how there could not be). Either way he does not know what this password is, and cannot access the account. Because of this he cannot send or recieve e-mail, and is quite agitated because of it.

I tried to got in and access tools, and from there see if the the box which says you need a password for account authentication was ticked. It was not, so at this point, I have no idea what I should do.

Our anti-virus software has not picked up on anything, so I don't think it is infected with anything. I've been told there is a chance the software itself could be causing the problem. I do not know if this is true-- my parents have only ever used this e-mail, and everything has always been fine up to this point.

Does anyone have any tips?
 

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Today when my father went to open his windows mail account, the program opened. It asked him for a username and password, and it has never done this before. According to him he does not know of any such passwords exsistence. However, I believe he might not realize there is one (I mean, there has to be..... I do not see how there could not be). Either way he does not know what this password is, and cannot access the account. Because of this he cannot send or recieve e-mail, and is quite agitated because of it.

I tried to got in and access tools, and from there see if the the box which says you need a password for account authentication was ticked. It was not, so at this point, I have no idea what I should do.

Our anti-virus software has not picked up on anything, so I don't think it is infected with anything. I've been told there is a chance the software itself could be causing the problem. I do not know if this is true-- my parents have only ever used this e-mail, and everything has always been fine up to this point.

Does anyone have any tips?

Not that it would make any difference to you problem, please note that on your Title field, you wrote Windows Live Mail, while on your message body, you wrote Windows Mail.

I think it is not the virus, but your anti-virus program causing the problem.
Would you try just temporarily disable your AV ( anti-virus ) program and see if you still face the same issue.

t-4-2
 

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