My Windows Live Mail quit receiving from both Live.com and Outlook.com about a week ago.

I tried repairing Windows Live Mail (as suggested in some messages), nothing changed.

Another message suggested deleting the accounts out of Windows Live Mail and letting

them re-sync from the server: 

I deleted a couple accounts, and now they have been "syncing" for a couple days.

How long is it supposed to take for the account to re-download to my laptop computer?

How do I know if the message "Windows Live Mail is synchronizing this account. Check back..." means anything or is still actually doing anything?  That is, how do I know when it is still working and when it is simply "hung" and has ceased actually doing any "synchronizing"???

And, how do I get my functionality back in Windows Live Mail for those two mail.live.com accounts?

(Seen in a IE browser, they are still receiving messages, but none are coming down to Windows Live Mail on notebook.)

Steve