Only Hotmail running very slowly and errors in loading correct page

recently Hotmail havs taken a long time to load pages. Plus when a email is selected page flickers and wrong page displayed.
this is not happening with Yahoo mail. Sometimes error message such as "not responding" or "cannot complete". But only when trying to get hotmail

Hi Larry,
Thankyou for your reply, this is a partial answer
This server has been running for about 3 years now,
The faults started after I did an service pack update for sharepoint. I then did the manual update but the C drive then started to run very slowly and was giving disk size too low errors so I moved the SUS to a different drive but this hasnt helped. It is
still running painfully slow. Ran SBS BPA and found no faults. However ran Exchange BPA and did find faults which I have now fixed. Still have large number of errors
Brian

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    Problem description:
    My mac is running very slowly and I have difficulty staying connected to wifi networks. I have only used half of my hard drive. My computer was purchased in Canada, where I used it for over a year but now I am living in the US.
    EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
    Report generated January 11, 2015 at 5:56:14 PM MST
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    Hardware Information: ℹ️
      MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011) (Verified)
      MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir4,2
      1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
      4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
      BANK 0/DIMM0
      2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
      BANK 1/DIMM0
      2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
      Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
      Wireless:  en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Video Information: ℹ️
      Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
      Color LCD 1440 x 900
    System Software: ℹ️
      OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 0:31:38
    Disk Information: ℹ️
      APPLE SSD SM128C disk0 : (121.33 GB)
      EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
      Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB
      Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 120.10 GB (59.92 GB free)
      Core Storage: disk0s2 120.47 GB Online
    USB Information: ℹ️
      Apple Inc. FaceTime Camera (Built-in)
      Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
      Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
      Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
    Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
      Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
    Gatekeeper: ℹ️
      Mac App Store and identified developers
    Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
      /Applications/Splashtop Streamer.app
      [not loaded] com.splashtop.driver.SRXDisplayCard (1.6 - SDK 10.7) [Support]
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      [loaded] com.splashtop.streamer-for-user.plist [Support]
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