Windows Live Mail in Windows 8 will not download images in e-mails.  And yes, I have unchecked the box for "Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail". Every time I close down and reopen Windows Live Mail the images will download for the first few minutes, then will stop downloading again until I close and re-open the program again.  How do I get the images to always download?
Everytime we have a power outage, I have a problem with my email upon rebooting the computer.  Instead of the images and graphics sent in the email, I get the dreaded box with the red x.  How do I fix this?

Suddenly about four months ago I started getting a lot more spam addressed to my Hotmail address in my inbox. Other email accounts are not effected. It was all very similar and obviously spam. About half of it has the images blocked but a lot does not. I really want to be able to stop all images, for obvious reasons.

I have looked at another post regarding the same problem, there did not seem to be a resolution.

I have removed then added the guilty Hotmail account; no change.

Is there anything else? If this is not resolved I will have to get rid of Hotmail and/or WLM

(Original title: WLM not blocking images)