"Dennis Maley" <Dennis Ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Use it to verify that your connection settings are correct. Even though you
didn't change them, it could be that Microsoft changed something in the way
Hotmail is accessed from Outlook which caused your software to become unable
to connect to Hotmail.
Alternatively, if you do not use the Outlook Connector plug-in, maybe you
could give it a try?
I do not use Windows Live/Hotmail myself so I cannot vouch for it, but since
it is Microsoft's recommended method of accessing Hotmail, I doubt that it
wouldn't work properly.