This is a long shot, but you might try disabling Vista's autotuning feature.
1. Click on the Vista start orb and type cmd
2. The search results will display a program named cmd.exe
3. Right-click on the link and select "Run as administrator"
4. After the command prompt window opens, type
"netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled" without
the quotation marks, then press Enter.
5. Test your POP account and see if you can download your mail now.
6. If nothing changes, re-enable the autotuning feature by typing
"netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal"
Hope this helps.
Gary VanderMolen
"marcusFZ6" <marcusFZ6@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2336D695-74CE-4C82-945E-A938EE8016E6@microsoft.com...
>I have tried and no such luck. I think that there might be a problem which me
> connecting through the hotels connection, doesn't let you on to all www's
> that you want. might be the way they have got things configured.
>
> Thanks for all your help and assistance, appreicated,
>
> Marcus
>
>
>> Ok Marcus,
>>
>> The only thing I can think of to try next is to delete this email
>> account and close Windows Mail. Then, open Windows Mail and setup the
>> account up again as a new one. Perhaps Norton has done it's damage to
>> it and it needs to be discarded and create a new one.
>>
>> Shawn
>>
>>
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