Outlook express is far more accesible but of course will not develop further. Windows live is managable but more cumbersome to me. From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 7:03 PM To: org, jfw@freelists. Subject: choosing email client I do have windows 7 64 bit desktop and use Ms outlook or try to. However i kept my xp laptop and like to use Outlook express,, but since I had to put Office 7 on it as the original cd's were scratched,the engineer used my copy of office 7,ibought it for windows 7 but think I am allowed to use on 2 computers? Now as was explained by dave last weekthe snag is the spell checker will only spell in french,and there is a choice either a tool such as dave suggested,or I am told the microsoft website suggest windows live, I do not know a thing about windows live,but if some of you have used both Outlook express and windows live, are they very different? Which do you prefer, my laptop is xp and has Jaws 11 fully patched Dorothy Ps I am finding ms outlook on windows 7 very hard I need simplicity for this little laptop thanks