Well, a pop up kept bugging me to allow an automatic upgrade for Windows Essentials ... I avoided it several times because it would NOT tell WHAT was in it.  Finally I took a break from work to Google it & realized Live Mail was part of this group & essential fro business ... so allowed it to take it's time loading, then more time to require a reboot.

EVER SINCE, Live Mail on win8.1-64 takes x10+ longer to load.

I found a similar problem reported by others since win7, even a Fix It download ... that after the trouble said it didn't apply to my version.

Today, still takes a long time to load - will actually time it later this week, as if that update might matter.  Probably 5-10 minutes?

I'm sorry but do these guys know what they are doing?  They are taught to believe it's OK to release green wood on us worker bees, then we help them cure and rid their work of bugs ... at our businesses expense?