If you check on the top left corner of "old-style" hotmail accounts, there is an option to change it to
"new-style". It means you would not have to create a
new account just to get a Windows Live interface+account, and also ALL YOUR CONTACTS AND OLD DATA(MESSAGES) ARE CARRIED OVER.
adalia smash
February 26, 2008 8:19 AM
what the hell? Clicking 'sign up' does NOT take you to the process of making a new account! It takes you to the process of getting live hotmail! Get your facts right!!
Unhelpful!
Leo A. Notenboom
February 26, 2008 8:18 PM
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"getting live hotmail" *is* getting a new account. Get your
accusations right :-).
Uhh. Well. I tried this... I clicked sign up, and got a notice to download 'hotmail'. I downloaded/installed it, but what's confusing me is... getting 'Live Hotmail' meant getting a program. An e-mail based PROGRAM to check email.
I didn't get the actual "sign-up page" to make a new account. I got a e-mail checking program.
Maybe, just maybe... MSN has already been taken over by Windows Live, and now this 'live hotmail' software, after installing and running it, automatically imports any information from MICROSOFT OUTLOOK. If you don't have microsoft outlook installed, this 'live hotmail' software can't function. And also, I've had several people tell me over the past few days that they can't even sign up for Hotmail, for the first time. They only get this program. I just think that Hotmail is now Microsoft's puppet to get people to use Outlook, since now it appears that Hotmail's web-based Email is about to be extinct. That's what I've figured out so far.
I'm still a bit confused as to what is REALLY going on with hotmail, because everyone I know can't make a new account for web-based Hotmail, including me.
~Jon
lauren.
October 26, 2008 3:09 PM
is it possible to still keep my old hotmail account and use it at the same time as using a new live account? I still want to use my account but get a new one aswell.
You can have as many as you like, you just have to logout and login to each one separately.
- Leo 27-Oct-2008
mary
November 22, 2008 11:20 AM
I have had the same server address for years when I logged onto my hotmail it would say something like(by111w.bay111.mail.live) now a new server address comes up on the same account something like(co119w.co/119.mail.com).why?? do you randomly switch servers..Pleas explain these numbers and what they mean
I don't randomly change anything; I am not Hotmail or Microsoft. They, on the other hand, probably have hundreds, if not thousands of servers that host Hotmail and I'd expect those numbers to simply identify specific servers that you happened to connect to. They will change, at random, and there should never really be a need to care.
- Leo 23-Nov-2008
dipti
December 2, 2008 2:36 AM
as soon as i click on the sign up button next page comes which asks me to download some stuff and after downloading also the process of creating a new account does not begin pls try it yourself
That is not at all what I experience. Check your machine for spyware.
- Leo 27-Dec-2008
tekhee
January 3, 2009 6:24 AM
Hi!I had a free hotmail acct.address [personal email address removed] but recently i ws very busy and had not opened it so now it seems to be blocked/inaccessible.What should i do?Thanks.
Create a new account and start over. And remember to login to the account once a month or so to prevent this from happening again.
- Leo 03-Jan-2009
chas fitz
February 7, 2009 4:00 PM
I do you the courtesy of reading four9 free) letters and find them useful-especially for simpler things 'either orgotten or bigger problems i didn't know I had in the first place!
For which-much thanks!
Please do me the courtesy of acceptng that I HAVE SUBSCRIBED (or I wouldn't be reading U ) and cuit out the pup-ups asking me to subscribe-or I fear I will be driven to unscribe......
My husband is trying to access his hotmail account from my computer. It won't let me sign out! It keeps coming back to the page with my hotmail account asking for my password. At work, I can go to his hotmail just fine; it's just on the home computer.
If it's asking for your password, you're not signed in. There should be a link to sign in using another account.
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Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
December 18, 2007 10:33 PM
If you check on the top left corner of "old-style" hotmail accounts, there is an option to change it to
"new-style". It means you would not have to create a
new account just to get a Windows Live interface+account, and also ALL YOUR CONTACTS AND OLD DATA(MESSAGES) ARE CARRIED OVER.
February 26, 2008 8:19 AM
what the hell? Clicking 'sign up' does NOT take you to the process of making a new account! It takes you to the process of getting live hotmail! Get your facts right!!
Unhelpful!
February 26, 2008 8:18 PM
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Leo
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April 12, 2008 10:46 PM
Uhh. Well. I tried this... I clicked sign up, and got a notice to download 'hotmail'. I downloaded/installed it, but what's confusing me is... getting 'Live Hotmail' meant getting a program. An e-mail based PROGRAM to check email.
I didn't get the actual "sign-up page" to make a new account. I got a e-mail checking program.
Maybe, just maybe... MSN has already been taken over by Windows Live, and now this 'live hotmail' software, after installing and running it, automatically imports any information from MICROSOFT OUTLOOK. If you don't have microsoft outlook installed, this 'live hotmail' software can't function. And also, I've had several people tell me over the past few days that they can't even sign up for Hotmail, for the first time. They only get this program. I just think that Hotmail is now Microsoft's puppet to get people to use Outlook, since now it appears that Hotmail's web-based Email is about to be extinct. That's what I've figured out so far.
I'm still a bit confused as to what is REALLY going on with hotmail, because everyone I know can't make a new account for web-based Hotmail, including me.
~Jon
October 26, 2008 3:09 PM
is it possible to still keep my old hotmail account and use it at the same time as using a new live account? I still want to use my account but get a new one aswell.
27-Oct-2008
November 22, 2008 11:20 AM
I have had the same server address for years when I logged onto my hotmail it would say something like(by111w.bay111.mail.live) now a new server address comes up on the same account something like(co119w.co/119.mail.com).why?? do you randomly switch servers..Pleas explain these numbers and what they mean
23-Nov-2008
December 2, 2008 2:36 AM
as soon as i click on the sign up button next page comes which asks me to download some stuff and after downloading also the process of creating a new account does not begin pls try it yourself
27-Dec-2008
January 3, 2009 6:24 AM
Hi!I had a free hotmail acct.address [personal email address removed] but recently i ws very busy and had not opened it so now it seems to be blocked/inaccessible.What should i do?Thanks.
03-Jan-2009
February 7, 2009 4:00 PM
I do you the courtesy of reading four9 free) letters and find them useful-especially for simpler things 'either orgotten or bigger problems i didn't know I had in the first place!
For which-much thanks!
Please do me the courtesy of acceptng that I HAVE SUBSCRIBED (or I wouldn't be reading U ) and cuit out the pup-ups asking me to subscribe-or I fear I will be driven to unscribe......
08-Feb-2009
April 10, 2009 6:44 PM
My husband is trying to access his hotmail account from my computer. It won't let me sign out! It keeps coming back to the page with my hotmail account asking for my password. At work, I can go to his hotmail just fine; it's just on the home computer.
09-Apr-2009
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