Stalled Set-up of iCloud - iPhone Data in iCloud Only, Not On PC - How To Fix?

Question

I downloaded iCloud on my HP Pavilion dv9700 laptop running Windows Vista. The iCloud Control panel on my laptop is fine. I synced it with my iPhone 4 using my Apple ID and Password after creating my iCloud email address. At the iCloud Control Panel I clicked and put checks next to Bookmarks and Photostream and clicked on APPLY. The apply button faded out at this point in the process. After I long time the blue bar moved and said that I had 2.8GB storage left of 5.0GB. And the APPLY button was dark again I clicked on the MANAGE button and looked at the list of things (2+GB data) I have in iCloud.
I went back to the iCloud Control Panel and accidentally hit APPLY instead of CLOSE. My hard disk has been flashing forever 1 1/2 hours this time, way longer than the first time I hit APPLY. I think I'm stuck in some circular process. When I go to iCloud.com and enter my Apple ID and my Apple Password I see my name and one piece of email welcoming me to my new iCloud email. There is no data anywhere. No Data in my Calendar. No data in my Contacts.No data in my Reminder. No data in my Notes...and I have a lot of Notes, a lot of Contacts, a lot of appointments in my Calendar.
How do I get iCloud to stop whatever it has now been doing for nearly two hours and give me access to my data on my computer?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice given!
Alex

Answer 1

You can create up to 3 alias addresses but you have to do this on icloud.com from your computer browser.  This article explains how: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2622.  Also, incoming email to an alias address will go to your current iCloud inbox so it really isn't a separate account; just a different email address for the same account. 
Each iCloud account only has a single iCloud email account.  If you really want to set up another, you would need to add a secondary iCloud account by going to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud, then entering a different Apple ID to create the account.  You can then turn on Mail to create the new account.  Mail in secondary accounts, however, is fetch email, not push (which is only supported in the primary account).