I can't turn on calendar notifications

I see the checkbox for "Turn notifications on or off" Get notifications (reminders, changes to calendars and daily summaries) but it is greyed out and I can't tick it?
My Hotmail account was never merged into Outlook.com, and I have tried the posted suggestions regarding looking for it in the Deleted folder etc. My Hotmail account was active and I had used it ever since it was run by a standalone company, many years ago. Please help.
my laptop has been switching off on its own. i recently took it to a technician who cleaned my fan and tha processor and applied a paste on top of the cpu. bt the problem still pesist what can i do? Am using a windows 7 ultimate operating system on an compact 610 laptop.
pliz help.

Dear,

I have updated to Win8.1,

and I have turn on the sky drive option "Access All Files Offline" so it starts download a lot of file but at the end it stuck with downloading status for more than 150 files

when I click on the status it open a list of files that the sky drive trying to download with "Completed" status on each one of the

although all my files available offline ,

what I have to do??

I continue to have my hotmail hacked every month for the past 6 months. I have added security and have changed my password to something obsure a million times. Please help!!! I use this email for my business so I really don't want to change it, but someone is sending spam to my entire address book!!!
I presently am using windows 2007 office and windows 6 movie maker and have completed a movie and I am unable to save on a DVd. . When I click on publish...I t states wmovie maker will close and DVD maker will open.  This does not occur.  I have tried to add on DVD maker but it does not recognize my project. Thanks for any Help
Is it possible to insert pre-written text (in Outlook 2010 it is called "Quick Parts") into an outlook.com email?
I have a group that I regularly use in outlook, but it doesn't appear under the people tab.  I need to edit this group. How is this accomplished?
I am now getting messages to say my msn account is about to be suspended???