Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail was working fine until 6/17/'14 but now it says it is " tasking" to connect to my web mail site and the status is "executing", however, I cannot send or receive emails and there is no error message to address or anymore details. When I shut down my laptop, I get a message that I have a task host at work and should go back and close it and save files before I shut down but there is no way to do this and so I have to choose, "shut down anyway"?????????