I have been using Windows Live Mail 2011 and its worked fine.  Recently my laptop automatically updated to Windows Live Essential ( incl. Mail) 2012.  Liove Mail stopped functioning properly - it would no longer sync email to my account and just got hung on 'Updating calendar'

I tried restarting my laptop and also uninstalling and re-installing Windows Essential 2012. But none of this did any good. 

I have now re-installed Windows Live Mail 2011 which is working fine thank goodness.

Any thoughts / comments - is it me or is it duff Windows Essential 2012

Tony