thanks for your reply,
it was too old / when i was using my outlook,
as per your mail i hv done two exercise still its not working

this is the error message

Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error
(0x800CCCF6) : 'The server responded 'Access to Hotmail via Outlook and
Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at
http://join.msn.com/general/Email'. '

do i need to pay for using outlook now? pls let me know entire exercise to
setup my account again.