Hi Addison, no one is asking you to get rid of your hotmail account. Although you can get another one, like google mail, and slowly transfer all your settings and contact over before the June deadline. the problem lies in that Microsoft owns hotmail. and has decided to drop support for outlook express to communicate and interact with hotmail. The solution is that a person must upgrade to windows live mail program. At this time, it does work almost like outlook express, but with a few differences. Jaws also doesn't work 100% with live mail yet, but soon probably will. keep watching the list for comments and suggestions on using jaws and what other suggestions are available. Also, at this time, outlook express and live mail can be used side by side. Ask the list on how this is accomplished. Hope this helps with your concern, Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: addison gethers Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:19 PM Hello all, I'm getting confuse with this outlook express situation and I have hotmail account and I'm not getting rid off my hotmail e-mail address ,because I have friends and family who have my hotmail address . So if outlook express will not work with hotmail with window live messenger instead of window live mail or whatever ,this don't make no send to me at all. Addison -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx