Should add, I've worked around it by doing a copy/paste, but shouldn't have to...

Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com (all the same!) goes down. A lot. It has nothing to do with your end's equipment. If one of their servers goes south, it drags. It shows up badly because it keeps EVERYTHING except your message headers and preferences on its servers. That includes your attachments, mail, mail aliases, and address book. You rely on their servers to be hot and spicy, and they ain't always so. If you complain (I have) they'll get back to you after things are fixed and report no problem found.

Sometimes that happens. Not often. Usually DNS server with bad or old info. Slow to update. . bunch of address's choices to load Hotmail www.hotmail.com www.live.com www.outlook.com might look in your recent activity for any odd things; account.live.com Here is a link that might be useful: OneDrive.Live.com This post was edited by mikie on Sun, Jul 13, 14 at 19:23

yep DA I have had to in the past do some back door entries LOL well I guess it just needed to hear me complain a little because finally it seems to be back and working, hope it lasts. With all the changes they are doing almost daily it will likely be hit and miss. I am not liking a lot of the changes and may end up forcing me to change my primary email to one of my other ones or at least have it fetch the hotmail for me and not have to deal with the actual hotmail interface. Had to use my gmail today and realized that at some point recently my entire address book disappeared, all that is now showing up is my hotmail addy and my husbands addy, no clue why gmail would have made any changes that would affect my address book. Thanks for the replies