Hello Souris,
Welcome to Microsoft Community. I understand that you're having issues on Windows Live Mail when trying to log-in to your account. No worries, I will help you on your concern.
It is possible that the issue is caused by a corrupted data within your Windows Live Mail. For this issue,
we would need you to reinstall your Windows Essentials. To do this, you can follow the steps below:
Note: Since you are using Windows Mail, please save them on a safe folder as you will delete folders that is included within Windows Essentials. To know how to import and export e-mails, please check this **link**.
1. Perform **Windows Update**
2. Uninstall Essentials by following the steps within this **link**.
**3.******Delete the following files for a clean installation:
For 32 bit
C:\Program Files\Windows Live
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Windows Live
For 64 bit
C:\Program Files(x86)\Windows Live
C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\Windows Live
**4.******Disable firewall (Note that disabling the firewall makes your computer prone to virus attack. We suggest that you only visit the websites below and enable your firewall after installation is done).
**5.******Reset browser to factory settings.
**6.******Reinstall Windows Essentials:
**Windows Essentials 2012******(for Windows 7 and Windows 8)
**Windows Essentials 2011** (for Windows Vista and Windows 7)
Note: Please read the system requirements before installing Windows Essentials 2012.
If this did not solve your issue, please give us an update for us to further investigate your concern.
Thank you.
I have the same issue and followed the above step by step. After wasting 45 minutes performing the above I still have the issue.