Hi Leon,
I'm not sure exactly what problems you have and are dealing with. From what you saying, the culprit may not even be Hotmail but something specific to your pc.
However if you are available to change email services provider, I've not doubts inviting you trying gmail (google mail).
Once you open an account with them, you can also import in it your existing contacts from your email account.
Also gmail allows attachments up to 25 MBs, while Hotmail, as far as I remember is still stuck to 10.
Hope it may help
Giorgio
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