I cannot get to the Account Summary or Options page for my Hotmail account. I needed to change my password. As Microsoft updates its mail offering, some of its features are moving or changing.
Add Your Gmail Account to Microsoft Outlook for Mac Using IMAP. Step by step. Enter your email address, password and user name. Select IMAP for type.
As I’ve mentioned before, if you have a Hotmail (or Outlook.com, as it’s now called) account, you should expect change. Change happens.
Sometimes, it’s small and other times, it’s quite dramatic – such as how you change your password. I’ll walk through the steps to change your password in the current (as of this writing) design. Become a and go ad-free! Login to Outlook.com There are probably other ways to get to this, but the most familiar is to simply login to your email online using Outlook.com.
Yes, you must be able to login to change your password. Start by clicking the gear icon near the upper right. Then, click More mail settings from the drop-down menu.
On the resulting page, under Managing your account, click Account details (password, aliases, time zone): For security, you may be asked for your password again. Once you’ve entered it correctly, the Overview page opens. Look for the Password and Security Info section and click the Change password link. This takes you through the steps to change your password. Important: You’ve changed your Microsoft account password It’s important to realize that your Hotmail or your Outlook.com account (or actually any of several different Microsoft-offered email accounts) are actually your Microsoft account.
In other words, if you changed this password, you’ve just changed the password associated with SkyDrive, Skype (if you’re using your Microsoft account for that), and many other Microsoft services that uses this email address to login. Forgot your Hotmail password? Your Outlook.com password?
There are a couple of ways to regain access to your account. Using recovery information you set up originally, or information you can remember about the account, I'll show you how to go about getting your account back. It's now fairly easy to automatically forward Hotmail and Outlook.com messages to another email account. I'll walk you through the steps. Like many Microsoft products, Hotmail's name has changed a time or two and caused a great deal of confusion. I'll try to make sense of it all. Changing your Hotmail address is not possible, but you can set up a new account.
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Posted: September 19, 2013 in: Shortlink: TAGS. Greeting’s i have this dilemma, i have a msn account i created over 8 years ago.and until about a month a go i never had a problem with it i got to log in now and it says ‘ ur account might have been hacked’.go to the revovery processproblem is i can not remember what name and details i gave at the time.beacuse i was new to the net, i was wary of ‘privacy’i DID have it written down.but i have moved home 5 times since then. And have lost the details.masn tech support keeps reffering me back to the recovery process. EVEN after i have typed to them 10 TIMESwhat i am typing to you now. This is very frustrating i did however manage to remember 2 contacts on the account.and the secret pet’s name question can anyone help me with this?.cheers and thnx Pete: ). I am currently using IE 10.
Windows 8.0, Ah, not so good yet, still feeling my way around; I go back and use Windows 7 when I get confused, which happens quite often. I use Hotmail for both outgoing and incoming email. Well this is Good, very good! But, now I am encountering a whole ‘new’ dilemma – MSN is now requesting that if I want to send an email, that I use OUTLOOK 2010. It is also asking me in a whole bunch of following screen’s and questions that I must click this, do this, do that, enter this, establish an enterprise(?) protocol to connect to some unknown server; and etc., etc., on and on it goes. I know absolutely nothing about OUTLOOK 2010.
I’m really not interested in using outlook 2010, unless it is absolutely necessary and if that is the case; where and to whom can I turn for a set of detailed instructions? The following may be deleted, but I felt that it may aid you, if you respond to my current predicament: I use Verizon as my portal to the MSN network. I am on the low end of the Broadband (under 4mps) scale, and landline only – FiOS nor Comcast not available in this area and probably never will be.
If you need more information please let me know; I’m not that knowledgeable with regards to some of the terminology used for the internet. Thank you, Very much, James Colby. The number of dots is often NOT a representation of how many characters are in a password – so don’t make that assumption. More likely your account has been hacked. You can try the options outlined in this article: – I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think you have any legal leg to stand on – part of the terms of service that you agreed to when you created your account prevents Microsoft from being held liable for pretty much anything. This is why it’s so critical to backup your online accounts.
If this is the only place you have copies of important information then you are not backed up and you risk losing it all – forever. My odd situation has not been addressed. I can log into my hotmail account, just as I have for years. I can log out. I can log back in. And read my mail, and delete items, and reply, and everything else you’d expect to be able to do. Thus, I know my current password is fine, and nobody has changed it out from under me.
HOWEVER, while I’m logged in, I try to change my password by clicking on “Account Settings” and then “Change Password”, and then I type in the same exact current “Current Password” I use to log in every day, and then I choose a nice “New Password” and retype the new password in “Reenter password”, and then click “Save”. THE RESULT is that the same (cleared) Change Your Password page comes up, but the exact text “The password is incorrect. Please try again.” shows up in RED just above “Current Password” and below “Microsoft Account” (which shows my correct account name below it).
I tried this a month ago, and I tried again today, multiple times. And I can still log out and in and out and in using the same Current Password, and read my email, etc. (I think this is the same problem Gabrielle Spain was trying to describe two years ago, fwiw.) Any ideas appreciated. Here’s a few things to try.
Put in a recovery email (which is a good idea anyway) and then retrieve your password to the recovery email. It might be that some weird code is auto-inserting into either one of the password fields. One of my favorite helpers is Notepad. It’s very good at creating plain text.
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So open up Notepad. Type in your password.
Now use copy/paste to log into Hotmail. If it works then go to the change password page and use copy/paste again. That will at least prove that no typos or auto-fill is causing the problem. I just want to change my hotmail password. Suddenly i am getting junk mail from myself which to me, means someone is messing around with my hotmail account again. Since 1997 you would thing microsoft would have this worked out by now. But the problem is i need a code that is sent to another hotmail account which also requires a code this time sent by cell phone to a number that i had years ago.
There is no option to change it. I searched and according to microsoft if i use internet explorer, which i hate but was willing to do so it says i can do something called InPrivate Browsing. I follow steps 1 and 2 but don’t see what they are talking about because it’s doesn’t appear as they say. I am using windows 8.1 and generally use chrome because it’s faster than internet explorer and i don’t have any issues as i do with the former (like when i am on facebook and it wants to send secure info, yes or no, i never know what to pick so i use chrome).
So, i saw info you had about the code but it was dated from 2009. It’s 2014 and hotmail/outlook does not appear as you show it at the top of this page. So, how do i change it. And yes, i tried, really all i could do was give feedback, to get help from microsoft but they are useless. I’d like to change my password, however, after I log in correctly, and after I enter the sms code correctly and it takes me to the correct page, it asks for the old password, then for the new password twice (so far so good), THEN it tells me that my password is wrong (when I just used it to log in and I’ve typed it very carefully). What does that mean?
I’m authenticated by being allowed to have access to my account, then I’m authenticated again through my cell phone, only to be told that my password is wrong. Thanks in advance. Leo,i had email on sunday night and monday morningbit was all gone.I think it is windows 7,it was set up 13yrs ago,so idea of password and im not at all computer savvy.Someone else set up the email account for me. My problem is i cant do anything on center link or receive any job alerts,messages from America,our only way for them to contact us,anything i have given to businesses as contact.Just absolutly so annoyed,dont know what to do,and no money for any one to look at it.What do i do it is urgent?!!!! On my iPad, suddenly and for no apparent reason, the wretched thing announced that my password was incorrect and would not let me send emails. I had just sent an email successfully hours before, and not made any changes. So, I went into settings and re-entered the password.
I entered other passwords, which the computer helpfully told me were wrong. Then I entered the original password in. The iPad accepted this and gave me an encouraging check mark. I sent a test email.
Would not go–error message said the password was incorrect. So, I thought I would change the password.
Went to outlook.com, where it opened my inbox immediately. Could not get out of the inbox or find any way to get to settings in this program. There is no gear icon, as you say to press. How do I solve this problem? I don’t care what the password is, but the horrid machine must recognize it.
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Thanks to the new simplified Account Setting dialog in Outlook, the password field and server settings are no longer accessible through the File, Account Settings dialog. While Outlook will ask you to enter the password on the next send and receive, you can use the Reset Mail Settings button in the bottom left of the dialog to reset the account. Note that you can only change POP3, IMAP, and SMTP passwords using these methods. Outlook.com, Office 365 Exchange online, and other Exchange users will need to wait for Outlook to ask for the password. You can also delete the credential from Credential Manager to force Outlook to bring up the password dialog.
If you want to check the server and port settings, customize IMAP Sent and Deleted folder settings (yes, these options are back) or change the password before Outlook asks for it, you can access the full account settings dialog through the Send and Receive settings dialog. Accessing the properties dialog from Send/Receive Settings is not new, but for the most part, it was just another way to get into properties dialog. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open Send/Receive settings. (You can also open it from File, Options, Mail or from the Send/Receive menu Send/Receive Groups Define Send/Receive Groups.). Click Edit. Select the account.
Click Account Properties to open the Internet Account Properties dialog. Enter your new password on the email tab then click OK to save and close the dialog. Change the password through the Profile dialog You can also access the old dialog through the profile setup dialog, accessible through File, Account Settings, Manage Accounts or Control Panel, Mail.
After opening Mail Setup dialog, click Email accounts (or the Show Profiles button if you have more than one profile). Double click on the account name to open the older Change Account dialog.