Unable to search for ANY old emails in Hotmail. For example: I search for ‘facebook’ or ‘ebay’ = Nothing shows up, just a yellow ‘Loading.." box at botton left of screen and no results

Even after recievng about 5 emails from facebook in the last 24 hours and over 50 from ebay, when i type 'ebay' in the search box, no results are shown.

I have tried 4-5 different computers and tried to search for different words. No search results found - everytime.

The search feature is totally inactive. Without this I am unable to use the Hotmail account as needed, I need to find old emails which are needed for my everyday work, i can find them.

But what I have tried to figure out  - if I find ONE of them, (From the same sender), then i can click on 'Sweep', and click on 'Move all from...' and make a new folder to get them all moved to. But this would mean I need a folder for each sender, this is not the way forward...

I hope this method helps people temporarily, but right now I need help finding them only emails...

PLEASE HELP.