do you play counter-strike exessively on that computer? lol j/k. that has happened to me before but on a windows XP. Try accessing hotmail through a different site such as from MSN or using the MSN instant messenger to retreive your emails. When you sign on to MSN, it has the option to sign you right into your hotmail account and it should be able to open the page. Try clearing up yoru cookies and chache. Make sure your Firewall is not blocking any of its ports. Maybe a virus/trojan could be closing those ports and opening up some others.




EDIT: Speaking of emails, for those of you who have email accounts such as a student one given to you by your school, there might be 2 ways to open up your emails. Let me explain:

I go to school at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. My schools initials are WIT and my school's main page is "http://www.wit.edu. Now, there's a separate page that is used by students to do their stuff such as getting classes, grades and email and whatnot. Now, I could go and access my email through the school by going to the student page, entering my info and continue from there: or I could just go to webmail.wit.edu and get in much faster. Many schools have default email addresses such as that....I.E. Joe Shmoe Tech might have something called webmail.sjt.edu. Its worth asking yhoru school what they use, because i can tell you by personal experience that the school's page is always crashing, and sometimes its impossible or very very very laggy for you to get into your email. This might also be true for corporate emails.

Cheers,