Depending on the speed of your computer and the number of email messages you had in that account, the deletion may take a while.

The account will first be removed from the listing inside the ' Accounts' dialog, and Windows Live Mail will then proceed to delete all emails attached to that account.

To proceed, and permanently remove this email account from Windows Live Mail, click on the ' OK' button.

This is why you are advised to backup your emails before deleting the selected email account (a later tutorial will explain how to backup emails and contacts).

Depending on how you added this email address and configured the account (during setup or after the fact), Windows Live Mail may be instructed to automatically delete some emails from the server, in which case you will no longer have a copy of them after you remove this account from Windows Live Mail.

To prevent accidental deletions, Windows Live Mail will first display a confirmation message: ' Are you sure you want to remove the 'your-email-account-name' account?', followed by an explanation.

Click to select the email account you want to delete, and click on the ' Remove' button on the right.

Windows Live Mail will open the ' Accounts' dialog, and show a listing of all email accounts you have setup (listed under the category ' Mail').

Once you are looking at the main window, press the Alt key on your keyboard to show the classic menus at the top - then click on the Tools menu and choose ' Accounts'.

First, you will need to open Windows Live Mail.

Follow these steps to permanently remove an email account from Windows Live Mail:

Windows live mail delete account