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Windows Live Hotmail will typically show you the date your Windows Live account was created - even if it was created before Windows Live existed.

I want to know the year I signed in with my e-mail address: ****@hotmail.com.

I'm going to assume you mean what year you first signed in. The history of other sign-ins, including the most recent, is to the best of my knowledge not available.

However, the date you created your account may well be.

Here's what I did to get mine:

After signing in to the full version of Windows Live Hotmail, click on the Options link in the upper right of the window:

"You should be able to follow these steps and get similar information about your own account."

Windows Live Hotmail Options link

That presents a drop-down list, at the bottom of which is the More options... link. Click on that and you'll be taken to a page that includes, in part this:

Windows Live Hotmail More Options highlighting the View and Edit Personal Information link

Click on View and Edit Personal Information and you'll reach your destination:

Windows Live Hotmail personal information with Registered Since date

Here you can see I've had my account since 1999, not long after Microsoft acquired Hotmail. (I blur my Hotmail address because it's most definitely not the way to contact me.)

You should be able to follow these steps and get similar information about your own account.

One caveat: since your account may be used for multiple services such as Hotmail, MSN Instant Messenger the date would be the date you created the account, regardless of which service you first used to create it. Thus, if you create the account to use MSN Instant Messenger, and then a year later start using Hotmail with the same address, the date shown would be the earlier of the two.

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Leo Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed. After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.

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10 Comments
dhiren roy
February 28, 2009 3:22 AM

you cannot receive or send a message before your regristration date.

choob choober
October 8, 2012 3:54 PM

The layout seems to have changed, is there still a way to find out this information?

They sure have. Looks like all the information is now very much "outlook.com"-like in appearance. And, no, I cannot find this information any longer.
Leo
09-Oct-2012

diibag
November 12, 2012 12:51 PM

this is not working now ? how can i do plz

YJM_Strat
November 26, 2012 12:15 PM

This is correct, it used to be the registration date that you could always check. However, since they have changed the layout, this info is no longer visible.

Orlando
December 5, 2012 7:29 AM

Not possible I still can't see the day I open my Hotmail account