[General Maximus]

Microsoft stopped supporting "Outlook Express" as well as Windows Mail a few years ago. The only supported client afaik atm is Windows Live Mail which should be installed by default in Windows 8. You'll find it on the home screen (or whatever it is called) or you can search for it easily enough. Once you are in the prog, if it is the first time you are launching it, it will start a wizard guiding you through setting up an email account. You can type in your email address, the server settings (pop3.virginmedia.com and smtp.virginmedia.com) and your account password and it will set everything else up for you. If the wizard doesn't launch. you can click on "accounts" and "email" and it will guide you through the process of adding an email account.

Edit: you also want to tick the boxes for something like "this connection requires secure authentication" and set the ports to 995 for pop3 and 25 for smtp. Once you have got all that in place you can save and close any open windows, click on the send/receive mail button and it will either work or it won't. If it doesn't work an error window will pop up and tell you if it was a problem with the server settings (indicated by the fact that it will tell you it cant find the server) or if it is password related by way of the password box popping up and asking you to re-enter the password. If you watch the status bar bottom right and see it flick through authorising, checking mail, no new messages, then everything has worked ok and you don't have any new emails.