I have not been able to go into OFFLINE mode in Windows Live Mail for months.  I know there are all kinds of issues with getting back online, but I have now lost the ability to go OFFLINE at all.  I can no longer work on emails when I am NOT connected to wifi or else when I go back on wifi, all the emails I deleted or replied to end up back in my inbox as unread... adding more time to my day sorting through emails I have already dealt with.  Not great for a small business owner.

I saw another post with the same issue in January, but there were no replies and when I tried to reply I kept getting an error message.

Receive Error Code below and Windows Live Mail is stuck in OFFLINE. Unable to change.

Unable to send or receive messages for the Berkshire.rr (camp66) account. The connection to the server has failed.

Server: 'mail.nycap.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E
Protocol: POP3
Port: 110
Secure(SSL): No
Socket Error: 10013

My msn messenger 2011 was working perfectly fine, until I had some updates for my windows. I came back and the date and time was changed and all my contacts on msn are offline when they are actually online. I have seen the tip to erase the file in :

C:\Users\<Windows logon name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts

But what to do when the
AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts doesn't exist on the computer?
Running Win8, Messenger shows me online but to everyone else, I appear offline.  How do I fix this?  I have another laptop in the household and verified I show offline to others when I'm indeed online....help! 
I just bought an new iMac and Office: mac2011 and I'm in the trial mode for the software.  No problems so far with Outlook connections to mail server, but Outlook won't let me create a new folder to store emails.  When I go to Help or New, other options are available but Folder remains in shaded grey, ie. not an option to open a new folder.

I've tried putting Outlook into Offline mode, but this doesn't help.
I added Windows Live Messenger to my website. It shows me as Offline when Im clearly online and talking to contacts. What to do about this???

My website is (removed by the moderator).

How come my Yahoo contacts appear offline in the Messenger client window even they are online?

Windows XP SP3 all upgrades/patches installed.

First tried to upgrade an old version, didn't work.

Saw an old thread that recommended making sure that old version is completely uninstalled and deleting the old folder from Program Files so I did that.  

Tried installing the most recent offline version Live Essentials, still no joy.  Always the same, gets to 100% then rolls back the entire install. Always the same error message aborted: 0x80004004
appaio offline non volutamente... e cio' che scrivo in ciat appare rosso... potete aiutarmi?grazie infinite