Since moving to a new laptop, and installing Windows Live Mail 2011, I find that I cannot receive emails on it.  I can send but cannot receive.

It gets worse.   Even on my old laptop I am faced with a sign on text box which does not recognise my name or password.  I have simply selected <CANCEL> and proceeded as normal.    Since moving to the new laptop it too will not recognise my name and password.  Despite a message in the text box to say that I cannot send or receive messages, I can send them.  I tested this by sending them to myself.  They are picked up on my Kindle okay, AND my old laptop, but not the new one.

Why?

I suspect that the answer is to ditch Windows Live Mail and move to another client [or whatever the correct terminology is].

I would be reluctant to do this as I felt comfortable using it for the last five years or so.