Users who had sign up for Hotmail.com to explore the new email service and now want to close the account can complete the below mentioned steps to close the account and delete all personal information.

Please note that when you close your account, your user name, password, account profile will be permanently deleted. Because of this, you won’t be able to sign in to your Microsoft account, Xbox LIVE or anywhere else using this account. Also note that you will lose access to your Messenger and Hotmail contacts.

If you have used the Outlook.com account that you want to close as an ID with any other websites or services, we suggest you sign in to those sites and services first and delete your personal info or change the email address to the alternate one before closing your Outlook.com account.

Steps to close and delete your Outlook.com account

Step 1: Visit Outlook.com, sign in with your Outlook email address that you want to close and delete.

Step 2: Click on the Options “cog” in the upper-right corner of the page and click More mail settings to open Outlook options page.

Step 3: Under Managing your account, you will see Account details (password, addresses, time zone) option. Click on it to open Microsoft account overview page where you can edit and update your personal and security info, and also close the account.

Scroll down to see Close account option. Click on it to see Close your Microsoft account page. Here you will see what happens when you close your Outlook.com account.

Step 4: Scroll down the page, enter the password for your account (if you have forgotten your password, follow our how to reset or recover Outlook.com account password guide) and then click Next button.

Step 5: On the next page, you will see “To close your @outlook.com account you need to deactivate your Hotmail account” message. Click on deactivate your Hotmail account link to see a new page where you need to click Close account button to permanently close your account and delete all info.

Please note that Microsoft reserves your email address for 270 days after closing your account, and other people won’t be able to get that email address during that time. After that time, it becomes available for other people to use.

I discovered that when using hotmail on my new Windows 7 laptop it automatically signs me into msn / live messenger. After trying to find a setting somewhere to disable this feature i have finally found it (and it’s really very easy)…

I discovered that all you need to do to stop messenger logging in every time you check your email, just log into hotmail as usual, click your name in the top right, or open the messenger list and click “Sign out of messenger”.

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This will permanently sign you out of messenger in hotmail, and only hotmail.
If you are logged in on the normal desktop app you will stay logged in.

If you sign out / close your browser and sign back in to hotmail login, messenger won’t load leaving you free to check your emails in peace!

Office Outlook Hotmail Connector is by a wide margin the most ideal approach to utilize an Outlook.com, Hotmail login or Microsoft Live email account with Microsoft Outlook 2010 or 2007 (it's not required for Outlook 2013). The connector use EAS (Exchange Active Sync) and opens up the full usefulness of Microsoft Outlook including Email, Calendar and Contacts Sync. It's far better than utilizing POP3 or IMAP and on the off chance that you've put resources into the full Hotmail customer, there's extremely no reason not to utilize the Connector. Here's the means by which to introduce and design it, all with idealize screen captures for you groovyReader delight! 

Once downloaded, Launch the install by double-clicking it (OutlookConnector.exe).

Review and Accept the License agreement and Click Install.

There is nothing to configure at this point. Click Finish when prompted.

Launch Outlook as normal and follow the prompts by Clicking Next.

Ensure the Radio Button Yes is selected, Click Next.

Enter all the account information as displayed below. Click Next when done.

With the new connector installed, everything from here is automatic and as long as you entered in the correct email address and password.

If you get all green check boxes as shown below, you’re golden.  Just click Finish.

Test it out by launching Outlook. Your Email, Calendar and Contacts should all be waiting there for you!

Yes, this is one of the most important aspects of getting started with your account, which everyone must do. When you sign up a new Hotmail account, especially if it is live.com, you need to verify it.

The truth is that if you are making use of your email account on your computer set at home, you might tend not to understand the need for this.

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This is because of the fact that whenever you fill in the same email address and password in the same system for some time, it will simply memorize it, only to bring it up for you whenever you want to log in.

In some other cases, you might even use the “remind me later” option below your email address and especially password.

But what of those days when you travel to far places and wants to check your email on a new computer set. If you ever forget your password, you will find it difficult to recover this, unless you have a verified account.

This is the reason why in most cases when you sign up for a new hotmail account, you are asked to verify your account before you can send an email.

Even if this demand is not made of you, you have to go ahead and do this on your own.

Procedure to Verify Your Hotmail Account

If the prompt is coming to you from the email account, you will get a message on a bar above the email you want to send, reading “please verify your account” with two bold options at the extreme end. This includes “verify” and “close,” choose “verify.”

This will take you to a page that has the option to “enter your mobile number.”

There is a text field below the “enter your mobile number.” option. Just enter your mobile number in the right format, including your country code and click next.

But before this, you have to go through the terms and conditions of service, as it will take you through all the terms upon which the services will be offered to you.

From here, it will then take you to a page that says enter your “verification code.” Check the message that was sent to the phone number you provided and enter the numbers correctly.

If this is done correctly and accepted, it will direct you to a page that says “Thank you for verifying your account.” This means that your account verification is successful. Click “done” below the message and it will take you back to your inbox.

Benefits

The benefits of verification cannot be overbored. It makes your account to be your own and gives you the leverage and avenue to recover whatever you want to recover when lost.

If you are the type that makes use of multiple email accounts, you will be running the risk of forgetting your password on many occasions, (especially if you make use of different email accounts from the same email provider) this will help you a big deal. Apart from it you can easily arrange your all emails easily.

Outlook.com is a latest gig played by Microsoft, and the obsession of company with the Metro Style is somewhat showing-off everywhere. The company has launched it Preview Outlook.com yesterday. We can say its the update of the Microsoft Hotmail, although the old version of Hotmail will remain active. The company has tried to make it as an next level sort of thing, lets have a Preview to find it out more on the Outlook.com.

Appearance

Microsoft bring the nice and clean update this time and there motive to make it more easy user interface along with the taste of metro style is successful this time. The While using it first user will definitely feels the idea of presence of the windows 8. From a simple loading circle when sending a message to animations throughout the interface, Microsoft has pulled together the best elements of Metro and applied them to Hotmail. A dotted line loading bar at the top also matches the Windows Phone’s user interface.

By default the Outlook has been divided into three column. The first column consist of Folder, Quick View and the search box at the top in the left. Emails are lined up in the middle column and the and a new command bar on the right-hand side. Outlook’s command bar dynamically changes based on email activity, providing contact information from Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere and also serves as an ad-place for Microsoft which generally shows Ads from the Bing Products.

The above panel bar has the Smiley like face gives user access to Skype, Facebook Chat & Windows Live Chat. Through the panel bar you can change the color(colour) of the panel bar. Just as shown in the Picture below:

PANEL BAR

As showing in the picture user can change the Column Layout by right and bottom layout. The optional reading pane will switch the view to a four column layout with a message preview on the right-hand side. A trio of Metro style icons also provide access to switch between Mail, People, Calendar, and SkyDrive from a dropdown menu at the top of each section.

 “Brand New Look But Has Some Trace Left of Hotmail in the Outlook”

One change to the layout and functionality of Microsoft’s webmail client is the switch to default threaded conversations. Traditionally in Hotmail, Microsoft never grouped message conversations together by default, although the option is there for users to switch on. In Outlook.com, threaded messaging is enabled by default, surfacing a feature that many Hotmail users are likely unaware of. Hotmail’s legacy hasn’t been removed entirely, Junk, Sweep, and Quick View settings all remain from Hotmail, and Microsoft has ensured that right clicking on most elements in Outlook.com will provide the usual context menus. Instant actions, such as mark as unread, delete, or flag also appear inline in the message list.

Microsoft is also pushing its SkyDrive cloud storage service here, providing the usual 7GB of free storage to share photos and video content on SkyDrive for emails, which should help free up email attachment headaches. Unfortunately, there’s still no sign of offline mail support. so if users gonna pull the plug on his connection then he’ll only be able to load emails he had  previously cached.

Contacts Improved

The Contact interface is nearly identical to the Windows 8 interface and is very tempting and look wise is very good. In the contacts the users can import the Contact list from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Microsoft Outlook CSV.

Microsoft tried to merge the all contacts into Outlook Single contact card which is Good and Beneficial but can be very tedious to handle sometimes. There are only options to view all, available, or favorite contacts. If user fill up his/her contacts with photo information and link them to Facebook then it certainly makes for a much nicer experience in the Mail client of Outlook.com providing avatar pictures in conversations.

The thing which remained unchanged is the Windows live Calender, it’s just same as the old Hotmail look.

Outlook Support

At the moment, there aren’t any standalone mobile applications, so if you want to access Outlook.com on the go you’ll need to use either a browser or any app that already supports Exchange ActiveSync. In fact, if you open the Hotmail.com app and log in using your Outlook.com credentials, you’ll be able to use the app (minus, of course, the UI you’ll get on Outlook’s full site). For now, Microsoft won’t say which mobile platforms it’s considering, or when the first apps might arrive.

And if you’re an Outlook user and using Windows 8 and Logged into it by the same Microsoft Account then the Mail, Calendar, and People apps will be automatically configured with Outlook.com’s email, schedule, and address book. It supports very well on other platform Tab’s and while using it on Touch Devices it clearly proves that, Outlook has been targeted mainly for touch devices.

OUTLOOK SUPPORT

Conclusion

Besides Look, Feel and Skype Integration there is no drastic change in the Outlook and remained some features as an Hotmail. Though the Address book including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & CSV and merging together is a good way to keep everything handy. But the lame arises when we find no Spam Protection by Outlook and here Gmail gets the Crown.

CONCLUSION

But as this is a Fresh Attempt and this is in Preview Stage we can hope for many other Features to get added in it’s Future Updates.

When Microsoft released an update for the online e-mail service Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail) can grab the latest, Hotmail this new version it will produce a number of settings and with the latest innovative, helpful more work for the user.
 Exciting new features of Hotmail:

It is quite common to delete emails from our Hotmail or Outlook inbox , especially older ones, however, it is often the case that we sometimes need that email that we have already deleted. For this type of situation, Outlook.com has an alternative that allows us to recover emails that we have already deleted from our Hotmail inbox .

The steps to follow are extremely simple, so in a matter of a few minutes we will have that mail that we need to recover.

Note that this is the only way to recover deleted emails in Outlook , so we should never accept the help of third parties or a program that promises to recover deleted emails .

Steps to recover deleted messages from Hotmail or Outlook

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We click on "Deleted items" to be taken to a page where all the emails that we have discarded are. If it has not been long since we deleted the mail , possibly it is in this folder, we just have to mark the mail that we want to recover, go to the option "Move to" and select the inbox ./iniciarsesionhotmail.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Cómo-recuperar-los-mensajes-borrados-de-Hotmail3-300x174.png" target="_blank">http://iniciarsesionhotmail.biz/wp-content/uploads...rrados-de-Hotmail3-300x174.png 300w, http://iniciarsesionhotmail.biz/wp-content/uploads...rrados-de-Hotmail3-768x445.png 768w, http://iniciarsesionhotmail.biz/wp-content/uploads...rados-de-Hotmail3-1024x594.png 1024w" width="1280" />

However, the tray of deleted items is usually emptied from time to time, so if it is not here we must click on the option "Recover deleted items". A new window will open and the recently deleted messages will be shown to us, we just have to select the mail that we want to recover and click on the "Recover" option.

Hotmail sign up

If you don’t have a Hotmail email account yet, you can sign up for a new account. And below are the steps to create a new Hotmail email address:

1 Go to Microsoft Outlook website or type in Hotmail.com which will redirect you to Outlook website.

2 Then you will see the Create new account button.

3 Next, you can choose the Hotmail.com domain address.

4 Fill out the required information for signing up for Hotmail account and you can also complete other details.

Hotmail sign in

Once you’ve already have an existing Hotmail account, yoiu can follow below steps to sign into your account:

1 Type in Hotmail.com on your web browser address bar and you will be redirected to the Live domain of Microsoft.

2 Here you will find the sign in options for any Microsoft account. As Hotmail comes under Microsoft, you can use your Hotmail account details to log into your account.

3 If you have forgotten your login details, you can use the help link to get the help and ask for to Hotmail account login details.

And if you’ve recently created a new Hotmail address, you can sign into your new account by  following below steps:

1 Log onto Hotmail.com or Live domain of Microsoft.

2 You will be presented with the log in panel on the front page.

3 Here you can sign in with the email address you’ve just created.

4 And then you will be prompted to enter the password in the consecutive page.

5 In case you want to do away with the password, there is an option to receive a unique identification number or code in a registered phone number. This can be keyed in to access one’s account.

Above are the tutorials for Windows live Hotmail sign in. You can refer to them if you could not find the way to sign in your Hotmail account.

Introduction

A lot of people have Hotmail accounts and for some reason they might want to get away from it. This could be because they start operarting their own email server or because Hotmail has feature-wise not everything desired nowadays. The problem is that you can't just forward new incoming mail to another non-Hotmail account wihtout paying for it. There are, however two ways, to circumvent that.

Disclaimer: I know, this is not Linux specific but I still think this to be interesting for a few people.

Step 1: Requirements

For setting up an auto-forwarder to a non-Hotmail account there are two things needed:

(1) You need a Hotmail account (well, that's kind of obvious).

(2) You need a cell phone.

Step 2: Setting Up Mobile Notification

The first step that you have to do, is to set up the mobile notification. This requires you to register your cell phone with Hotmail (or rather mobile.live.com).

The simplest way is to:

(1) Log in to your Hotmail account (if you enter http://www.hotmail.com you'll end up at the Windows Live login page).

(2) Below your username on the top right of the screen, you have "Options". Click on it and you get a drop down and among various entries one that is called "More options". Select this one.

(3) You get to a new screen with different categories. Under the "Manage your account" category you could set up a forwarder to other email addresses. However if you try it to forward the email to a non-Hotmail account it will not be accepted. Instead use the "Mobile alerts for new messages" option in the "Customize your email" category.

(4) Click then the "Signup for Windows Live Mobile"

(5) You are then asked to enter your cell number. Enter your carrier number without leading zero and then your phone number. It should then look something like 12 3456789.

(6) You are then asked to enter your cell provider and other stuff. This will depend on where you are from.

(7) If everything is ok you will then end up on the next page where you can enter the code that will be sent to you by sms.

(8) You get now the confirmation that your phone was registered. Now set up the "Hotmail alerts".

(9) You then need to agree to the pricing and terms of use. It is highly recommended that you read this!

(10) A pup-up appears and this time you will "finish the sign-up process".

(11) Receiving and replying to those alerts will be charged on your cell phone bill. So you select here "none - never send me mobile alerts".

(12) You end up again at the hotmail options. This time select to "forward mail to another email account".

(13) You can now forward the incoming email to another account. Also chose whether to keep a copy in the hotmail inbox.

(14) If it is accepted, then you end up again at the account management. Go again into the forward mail option.

(15) You see now that the forwarding is setup.

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If you run into problems it might be that (for some reason) the mobile device notification wasn't properly setup (see here). If that is the case, then do as told in that thread.

- go again to mobile notification setup page

- click on the "Windows Live Mobile" link

- then select "Hotmail notification"

- chose there to do no notification and save it

- retry to setup the forwarding email address

If it still does not work, then repeat the above but select to be notified on every incoming email, send yourself a test email to check whether notification works (you'll be charged for that). If it does work, then turn it off again and now it should definitively work. 

Step 3: Get A Copy Of The Existing Emails

Well, very likely you have already a large collection of emails that you want to keep. You could just forward it all to your new email account. However that would alter the sender and date as displayed in the new webmail or email client or.... So, this is not such a good method.

However there are two ways in which you can get hold of it all.

 (a) Using Thunderbird

There are plugins for Thunderbird that will be able to fetch all Hotmail emails through the web access. Here's a good guide for it: http://ubuntuswitch.blogspot.com/2007/09/ubuntu-how-to-get-yahoohotmail-emails.html. However one improvement can be made. Install first both addons, restart Thunderbird and then add the actual Hotmail account.

Once you have a local copy of all your emails then you can just use the Copy To function in Thunerbird to copy all messages into any folders in TB (local folders or IMAP). If you use mutliple computers to access your email, then I'd suggest getting an IMAP account somewhere. 

However, depending on your mailbox sizes, it is very slow and you get often time outs. For initial "synching" I suggest way (b) to use.

(b) Using Outlook Connector

For this to be working you will need Outlook installed and WGA verified. You can download the Outlook Connector here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?di...6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4. Once the Outlook Connector is installed, you will get a new menu entry in Outlook for the Connector. Use that to set up the Hotmail account. It will kind of make an IMAP like local copy of it. It won't be much faster either than the Thunderbird way, however you will not get time outs. Once you have you a local copy, be sure to change the Hotmail password in the Outlook Connector so that you can then move around the messages (I couldn't find a Copy To option in the Outlook Connector) so that you still keep - at least for a little while - all your email also in the Hotmail account.

So, with that you should be able to migrate all your email away from Hotmail onto a new account and set up a forwarder, so that incoming new emails will be auto-forwarded.

Step 4: Problem - Inactive Account Deletion

There is one thing more to be considered. Hotmail will delete (or at least they say so) accounts that have been inactive for three months. If you don't use MSN (messenger) and log in there, you need from time to time to connect to the Hotmail account, otherwise after three months it's gone and nothing will be forwarded anymore.

If you don't like MSN  (messenger) and if you're using Thunderbird, you could then, after some time, just delete all email in the Hotmail account and disable the periodic checking of the account and only do a checking at the startup of Thunderbird. That should not generate any timeouts then. Or do it equally in Outlook.

If you lost or forgot Hotmail password, you can quickly reset it using alternative information added on your account. It’s quite easy to follow Hotmail reset password steps if you’ve updated Hotmail account recovery information like alternative email address, phone number, or verification application, etc. while signing up for Microsoft account. If you haven’t added yet, you’ll need to fill out and submit a questionnaire prepared by Microsoft team. Later Microsoft team verify your identity and provide you instructions to reset Hotmail password. Only then you will be able to do Hotmail email login with the recovered password.

Before resetting your Hotmail password make sure that: –

• Caps Lock key is turned off or not. (Passwords are case-sensitive)
• You entered email address correctly.
• You entered the email address with a domain. (ex. @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com)

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Hotmail Password Reset

1. Step 1: Navigate www.hotmail.com on your web browser.
   Never be confused, your browser will direct you to Microsoft sign in page. Outlook, Hotmail, and Live belong to the same platform, and you can reset your password using Outlook.com too.
2. Step 2: Enter your username and click next option.
3. Step 3: Click ‘Forget my password’.
   By clicking this button, you’ll be directed to ‘Why can’t you sign in’ page.
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4. Step 4: Select ‘I forgot my password’ and click Next.
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5. Step 5: Enter the characters you see in the box and click ‘Next’.
   In this section, find the characters and enter in the box below. If you confused, click ‘New’ you will be provided with a new one. Or if you’ve problem on display, you can switch to audio challenge by clicking ‘Audio’ button. Notice that characters are not case sensitive.
6. Step 6: Choose among ‘how would you like to get your security code’ options.
   
   If you have access to your alternative email address, enter an email address in the input box and click ‘Send code’. If you are not sure about an alternative email address, you can verify its first two digits. If you don’t have access to an alternative email address but can use your phone number to receive the verification code, click ‘text *********’ option. Now you need to enter last four digits of your phone number. And click ‘Send code’ button. You can make yourself sure about your phone number as last two digits will appear on your screen.
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   Or You can use authenticator app to receive security code if you’ve enabled this service earlier. Click ‘Use my authenticator app’ to run this process. And click ‘Send code’ button.
7. Step 7: Enter security code you receive and click ‘Next’.
   You will receive security code on your alternative recovery options you provided in earlier steps. If you’ve entered an alternative email address, open an email in next tab or device and check inbox. Check your mobile phone if you’ve chosen ‘text’ option before. Remember, if you have enabled two-step verification, then you need to verify your identity using two methods. Enter the code you just receive and click next.
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8. Step 8: Reset your password and click ‘Next’ to complete.
   Once you set a new password, your Skype and Microsoft accounts will be merged. This will allow you to use Skype, Office, Xbox and other Microsoft apps with a single account. We suggest a strong password for your Microsoft account. Note that passwords are case-sensitive. They must be 8-character minimum.
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Hotmail Password Reset (If recovery options are not set previously)

Or you don’t have any option to receive Microsoft security code; then you have to choose ‘I don’t have any of these‘ on identity verification page. Or If other options listed on recovering Hotmail password steps fails and you believe you can prove your ownership to Microsoft account, give a try to this method. But we can’t guarantee on resetting Microsoft account password unless you show yourself as a real owner of the account.

Follow the steps as mentioned above till step 5

• Step 6: Click on ‘I don’t have any of these’ option while Microsoft asks to verify your identity. And click ‘Next’.
• Step 7: Enter contact email address and click ‘Next’.
  This email address needs to be different from the one you’re going to recover the password. You can use any webmail service providers’ email address to receive information from Microsoft team. If you don’t have any existing alternative email address, you can sign up your Outlook.com account.
• Step 8: Verify your alternative email address
  Check the inbox of your alternative email address and enter the verification code as shown below. And click ‘Verify’ button.
• Step 9: You’ll be provided with a long form to fill in.
  Try to fill in the questionnaire as much as you can to as best as to your knowledge. The more correctly you provide the answer to each section the more chances of recovering your Microsoft account password. Correct answers prove you as the real owner of the account.
  Submit questionnaire form after completion by clicking ‘Submit’ button. Microsoft team will examine it and inform you later on your alternative email address with the result. If you succeed providing sufficient reasons to make believe them you are real owner, Microsoft will send you password reset link to your alternative email address.

If you failed on providing enough information regarding Microsoft account, you’ve lost your account. But if you believe in providing correct information later, you can start the Hotmail password reset process again.