Hotmail problems

Apart from getting the "can't connect to Outlook at the moment" message which is becoming increasing annoying there are other problems.  Having got though to raise an email, on sending the icon keeps spinning and I am unable to to tell whether the email has gone or not, nor can I got out of it without closing down and starting again.  Sometimes when I delete emails and then empty the delete box the next time I go to it the emails have all come back.  I am not a techie so cannot following some of the ideas put forward in the forum but I have tried some.  I never had any problems until I got forced into the new system - I don't want to Skype and a hundred and one other things I just want to be able to send and receive emails without hassle.