I am having issues with my computer, I am Hotmail, and the sweep option is gone for some reason. I would hit sweep, and erase 150 emails at the same page. Its not even pages not, I have to scroll down forever, cant go to page 20 any more. Scroll forever. Is anyone having this issue! There is no help for Hotmail. I have like 4000 emails right now!! I hate up dating things!! Just leave things the way Im used to doing it, help me please..

Wow. I did not know anyone still used Hotmail.

You can type in hotmail to your browser and it will redirect you to outlook or live.com. They are all the same thing. I use Live.com and like it very much. However, I never use sweep so I have no idea.

@MScat wrote:

I am having issues with my computer, I am Hotmail, and the sweep option is gone for some reason. I would hit sweep, and erase 150 emails at the same page. Its not even pages not, I have to scroll down forever, cant go to page 20 any more. Scroll forever. Is anyone having this issue! There is no help for Hotmail. I have like 4000 emails right now!! I hate up dating things!! Just leave things the way Im used to doing it, help me please..

My sweep is just fine. Is it possible you need to use something different (like Chrome or Firefox) ...try them and see if that changes anything.

I have been unhappy with hotmail since they switched to outlook. Everything seems more cumbersome but I have had the same account for so long I hate to switch.

lol i have been using yahoo for 19 years (im only 32) and these seem pretty tame to me

I have been using Hotmail forever. I like it better for spam, advertising, privacy (non-google) control.

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I have a Hotmail account that I have had since the early 90's and keep it for old time contacts. I have to say that Microsoft has done a great job with spam filtering as this email gets about 30 spams a day and only one a week makes it through.

After they changed it to Outlook.com, they started checking to see if the "User Agent" indicated that I was using Firefox and then failed to work and gave a non descriptive error when I tried to get mail. I added a plugin to Firefox that allowed me to spoof the browser type and I changed it to iPhone 3.0. Then like magic it worked again. This proves they were blocking Firefox. Also by selecting a device that does not support Java or Silverlight, it forces Microsoft to serve up old light version of Hotmail. Ad blocking works well as well with the light version.

This tool is called Custom User Agent String and works with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera:
[mybrowseraddon.com]

You can set it to report that you are using any browser or device to any site and save it to automatically change when you visit the offending site. I tell Google that I am using Chrome and then the Google Translate works in Firefox. Without the spoofing, then they block it from working.

There is a obscured option in (Hotmail) Outlook.com preferences to bring back the old simple "light" interface. You need to access your account with IE and then click on the preferences ring in the upper right corner of the screen.

Then click on "General" tab in the left menu headings and open it.
Now, click on "Light Version" and click the checkbox in the main screen and click "Save" in the upper left of the main screen.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2016 03:10AM by scanman1.