Error Code 0x800CCC0F – Windows Live Mail

If you do a search online for the error code 0x800CCC0F while using Windows Live Mail there are so many people encountering the same problem. And the same suggestions are always offered as possible solutions none of which in my case have helped. I would like to add an additional detail to the conversation that I haven’t seen anyone else mention.

When I turn on my computer and open Windows Live Mail, I immediately get the error code mentioned above and no e-mails will download into my Inbox. I have to go to Yahoo Mail online in order to read them. However, if I let my laptop go to sleep then revive it (but without typing in my Windows password) my e-mails will ultimately download into WLM. Does this information add anything to the mystery of this annoying error code? In other words, re-booting the computer doesn’t help but if I let my computer fall into sleep mode then revive it by pressing just the start button, the e-mails tend to then download about 10-45 seconds later. Minutes later, after that one successful download of e-mails I will get the error code again and no additional e-mails will come in unless I repeat my little trick and even that doesn't always work either. This is a terrible work-around and I’m hoping to find a better solution.

Thanks for your reply, ICit2lol. I should have added that I used to get this error with my old laptop too, then last fall I bought a new Lenovo, downloaded Windows Live Mail (much prefer its simplicity compared to Outlook especially when it actually works), but proceeded to get the exact same error code again. So it feels more like some kind of setting glitch than a system file needing repair. As for the sleep mode trick, once I discovered it, I decreased the time it took for my computer to fall into sleep mode in order to intentionally trigger this result.

I only have one account which I run thru WLM and that's my Yahoo account (my main account). I don't like Yahoo Mail (the website) especially now that e-mail conversations are threaded like Gmail. I feel like many other people who've encountered this error seem to be Yahoo users as well. There must be a connection. If only some smart person at Yahoo could figure this out.