Why is windows live essentails 2011 so slow at receving emails. My windows phone gets them before my computer does. is there any way I can speed it up how offten it checks for mail?

 

Original Title: Windows Live Essentails 2011 Email is slow

I was at a site recently and they were offering a free download for windows phone. It's called windows live messenger. Why isn't windows offering this tool?
Every time I try to access a Windows Phone page, I get this error message: "Something went wrong and we can't sign you in at the moment. Please try again later." I can however still access other Microsoft sites, such as Xbox, and Outlook. This started back when I got my Nokia Lumia 820 on Tuesday and linked my Microsoft account to my phone.
Although my windows phone can send and receive emails - i can't use IE or chrome to view emails.
Sky Drive is OK


I get 
Service Unavailable

HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.



Seems like part of the service is unavailable, attempts to log this are just met with - "we can't respond directly but..."


Its been like this for 2 hours now.  (12 am 25th feb 2013)

I am having a strange problem and I can't figure what the cause of it is. Ever since I switched from a Gmail account to a Live.com email account (at the same time I switched to a Windows 8 computer and a Windows Phone 8 smartphone), I have been having email threading issues.

 

On my end, the conversations work perfectly fine, each email in a conversation is grouped together and very organized. However, my friend and colleagues that use Gmail keep telling me that every time I reply to an email of theirs it creates a whole new thread rather than having them all grouped together. The common denominator here is my Live.com account as none of the other people they correspond with use Microsoft email and I am the only contact that causes this problem.

 

I am wondering if this is a problem with the Mail apps on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 or a glitch in Microsoft's email system. I would really, really like to know how to fix it as it is a recurring problem.

 

Thanks so much! Hope someone can help me.

In my desktop Outlook I could get Jewish, Islamic and Christian holidays. How can I get this in Hotmail and, by extension, on my Windows phone? Why hasn't Microsoft support answered this?
I need an app to sync my macbook with my windows phone 8X by HTC.
  • The Hotmail account is active and has been for over a decade
  • I did NOT delete the folders- just got up one AM last week and they were gone
  • I have restarted my PC and logged in on my Windows phone, my Windows 8 PC, my iphone and my kindle without problems
  • I am getting new emails so the account has not been deleted
  • I do not have a virus on my machine
  • I have not opened up any "bad" apps or emails
  • I really need them back

 

  I cannot find anything online except that others have had a similar issue. Please help me. Thanks