wlmail 2012, “sign in” to windows live services, wlmail crashes

Wlmail is suddenly crashing when starting  (only see splash screen, then error message).

Went through repairs,  uninstall/reinstall (s) .   Still crashed.

Finally renamed its registry folder.  It started up.  YEAH.   It remembered my accounts, so it restored all my emails and CAN get emails.

It CANNOT however "sign in" to my main MSLive account, that has my Contact info (email addresses).   When I try to "sign in" , wlmail crashes.  This happens to be a Hotmail.com account.  (and I can log into it).    Once you do this, it remembers the account and tries to "sign in" when launched, which causes it to crash again,   I assume this is how the issue started.

I CAN "sign in" to a different MSLive account.  It of course doesn't have my Contact info.

What can be up with this "sign in" problem.   It has been working fine for some time.

Looking in the WindowsLiveMail.log file:

[19:17:04.07] 1c18                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (serverq.cpp:891), failed with 0x80004005 
[19:17:04.07] 1c18                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (imapsync.cpp:7574), failed with 0x80004005 
[19:17:04.07] 1c18                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (imapsync.cpp:518), failed with 0x80004005 
[19:17:14.90] 1c18                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (asynconn.cpp:562), failed with 0x800CCC0A 
[19:17:14.90] 1c18                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (asynconn.cpp:562), failed with 0x800CCC0A 
...

[19:19:55.27] 1cec                 Mail:            Zone_MailChk ERROR: (primaryaccount.cpp:631), failed with 0x80048842

Thanks