A couple of weeks ago updates from Microsoft were installed and the next time I rebooted the mail program was gone.  .  I can find my *.eml files but can't read any of them.  It appears the Microsoft has removed all download to reinstalled Microsoft mail.  In the meantime I'm using Outlook.com but I'd like to be able to access my old mail.

At the same time something in Office got broken and every time I start Word or Excel I get a setup message telling me it needs to copy files and then the program runs normal.  Every time I power up the sequence is repeated.

I'm not convinced that uninstalling the last batch of updates will help especially considering that download links don't exist for Mail.

Any suggestions?  Has anyone else experienced this?