I am unable to send or receive email with my Windows Live client.  In Windows Live Mail 2011 (and 2012), my mail and folders do not appear.  The pane is blank except for a message - "Windows Live Mail is synchronizing this account.  Check back in a few minutes to read your messages."  I select Send and Receive, Update All and I get the subject error message.  (My calendar and contacts appear ok.  I don't use Feeds or Newsgroups.)

I have searched the Community related to this issue and have not found anything that fixes the problem.  I did all the suggestions in the most comprehensive article at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-email/how-can-i-solve-synchronization-send-and-receive/dee0c2d9-998c-472e-aac9-0374c082854b?tm=1349387143840 , but still no fix.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Live several times.  When the problem began, I was using Live Mail 2011.  The install upgraded to Live Mail 2012.

I don't know how to verify under network suggestions whether the mail server I am trying to access is available or not.  This problem has been going on for 3 days now.

I have removed, added, and reconfigured the hotmail accounts several times.  I have created a new hotmail account and have the same problem with it.  Both work fine on my Android phone, my Kindle, and in Outlook.com.  I added my gmail account to Live Mail 2012 and it works fine.

I have gone through all the machine config suggestions in the above referenced article.  Another article suggested checking some registry items.  The only problem was not finding initpki.dll.  I don't know what to do to fix that.

I went through all the software config suggestions to no avail.

There was a suggestion to access the account via POP3, but I don't know how to do that one.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Bernie