At his best, hotmail it was the most widely used email service. However, its transformation towards a new integration of services, which implied the transition to Live ID, forced its users to get used to a new access system. As a result, many users left the service, allowing other options like Google’s Gmail to increase their market share.
Many users still have an old email with the Hotmail address, but they don’t know how to access it, possibly because they no longer remember the password. For this reason, Outlook from Microsoft worked on systems integration.
How to recover an old Hotmail account?
To be able to enter your old Hotmail email account, you just have to follow the following steps. Remember that you must do it through Outlook and you will also be able to access it in case you do not have the password at hand.
go to login.live.com/, type the Hotmail address and press “Next”. It should be noted that it will only work with forgotten accounts, not deleted ones. If you chose to delete your Hotmail account, you simply won’t be able to log in.
If you do not remember the password, you will have to click on the “I have forgotten my password” button. There, the account recovery process will start with the identity identification. As it is an inactive email address, Microsoft will have to find out some information about you and also know what your new emails are.
For this reason, it will send you to the “Recover account” section, where you will have to rewrite the address you want to enter (Hotmail), give another email where you can be contacted and complete the security captcha.
Once you complete the steps, you will need to go to your other email address to follow the recovery steps. By clicking on the button to continue, it will send you to a tab to fill in your personal data, such as first name, last name, date of birth, country where the account was created and postal code.
The next step will be to enter old passwords that you used in Hotmail. Finally, you will have to offer other email addresses of your Hotmail contacts. The steps are not easy but it is the only way to recover your old account.
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