Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forums here and I'm looking for some advice. I've used Outlook 2003 (on Vista 32 bit) with Outlook Connector and my hotmail (Microsoft Office Small Business) email account for nearly a year without any issues.

Lately, I noticed that I'm not receiving emails and also I can't send, the emails just stick in the Outbox. Working directly from my hotmail account in a web browser is fine.

Also there are strange little things like the 'Work Offline' option has vanished from my 'File' menu and the 'Send/Receive' button has disappeared. I've tried downloading the latest version of Outlook Connector (12.1 Beta) but it didn't help. I've unistalled/repaired Microsoft Office and had no joy there either. The Live Mail support desk say that everything is set up fine on my account too.

I think my only option is to format my computer and then re-install MS Office from scratch but this seems a bit excessive and I'm not sure if it would actually achieve anything?

I've now set up the same system on my laptop and it works sometimes but not others and the calendar can't syncronize, but I can live with that!

Any suggestions for a way to fix this, or if formatting my PC is likely to achieve anything? I tried a rollback to a restore point from last week but that failed.

Al.