I had the online/offline problem with the repeated error messages and tried the repair and then the Live Essentials 2012 upgrade.

Those steps took care of the off and online messages, but my Live Mail is still not connecting to any of my accounts or my other users accounts. 

I can get access to the mail through the webmail pages of the two different ISPs with which we have accounts and have full internet access on IE10, but the Live Mail just keeps timing out on each of our mail accounts.

What is happening here?

The only things I have not tried are deleting and recreating accounts and the complete uninstall/reinstall because I and my other users have important emails going back years that we do not want to see disappear.

Can I fix this without the complete uninstall and reinstall or deleting and recreating accounts?

I have now spent two long nights trying to fix this mess.  It's almost enough to make us go back to Apples.

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