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Can you please tell me how to change my Hotmail user name? Every time I email someone my full name and email address comes up and I don't want that to happen, I just want my email address to show on their email. How can i fix this? Hotmail automatically fills in the "From:" address in the mail you send with your email address, and your name. Changing your name is actually fairly simple, but getting exactly what you want? Not so much. To change your user name, sign in to Hotmail, and then click the Options link in the upper right:
Then click on Personal on the list that shows up on the far left, and then click on My Profile. On the resulting page you'll find places to put your First name and Last name. Those are combined to become the name that is displayed with your email address on the "From:" line in your sent email. So change those, click save, and you're done. Right? Not quite. There are two potential issues. First, you might need to sign out and sign back in again for the changes to "take". The change took immediately for me when I tried it out for this article, but I've also read of people experiencing delays. Another problem I did experience is that I was unable to erase my name. The erase "took" - my name showed up as "Leo" with no last name, but the test emails I sent still said "Leo Notenboom". My assumption, then, is that the first and last name cannot be blank - they need to be set to something. Setting the last name to a period, for example, worked. So if your email address is "example@hotmail.com" you might consider setting your "First name" to "example", and your last name to "@hotmail.com", which would simply duplicate the email address information your recipient already sees. Related:
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Hmmm I'm using Firefox. Simply wish to change the name displayed next to my email address when I send out an email. Following all the steps mentioned here nothing changes. Is there some refresh period required to see the change? Is there a customer service email address where you can write for assistance? Thank you for any help on this one Leo. Its really important my full name NOT display on my outgoing emails (as it is doing right now). Thanks!
Posted by: Douglas Moore at July 15, 2008 12:31 PMI'm also unable to change any information. I am using MSN (Qwest) Live Hotmail and there is no place under "options" that is titled "personal" and then "my profile". I have searched all entries under "options" and there is no option that I see to change my displayed name. I KNOW that before this was "Windows Live", I was able to very easily change my name.
Posted by: Robyn at August 1, 2008 10:17 PMDo you have any suggestions?
I have tried this from Explorer and MSN browsers.
Thanks.
I figured it out! After reading the article and posting earlier, I went back and messed with it again. This is what I did: from the www.hotmail.com page (NOT my MSN hotmail page), click "options", then "more options", then "view and edit personal information". After retyping password, click "registered information" in center column. You MUST enter SOMETHING in BOTH the first AND last name areas. I typed an exclamation point for my last name and it accepted it. So now I show up as "Robyn!". My mistake was that I had NOT entered anything for my last name, and it automatically entered my last name for me in the "from" column in emails, even though my last name did NOT show up in my registered information section.
Posted by: Robyn (again) at August 1, 2008 11:34 PMThanks Leo, and good luck everyone else!
Yeah, I have a problem. No matter what I change my nickname to when I sign into msn, as soon as I sign out and then back in again it goes back to "Rebecca". What's that all about and how do I fix it :S
Posted by: Rebecca at August 4, 2008 2:36 PMhi, leo. it's unbelievably bugging me. no matter how i change my user name, the change doesn't seem to 'take' at all. oh my godness
Posted by: gabriella at August 13, 2008 9:28 AMI'm also unable to change any information. I am using Windows Live Hotmail and there is no place under "options" that is titled "personal" and then "my profile". I was def able to do this before!!!
Posted by: melanie at August 30, 2008 1:26 PMDo you have any suggestions? all help appreciated x thanx
Thanks Robyn! She is right... however make sure you are signed into the "Full" version of Hotmail, not "classic." You can switch once you're inside at any time. Otherwise you won't be able to change your registered information for some reason.
Posted by: stalepie at October 1, 2008 11:11 AMIf you are using Windows Live Hotmail here's what to do:
Posted by: Mel at October 22, 2008 11:02 PM1. On the top right corner click 'Options"
2.Then click 'More options'
(you will be directed to another page)
3. Under 'Manage your account' click 'View and edit your personal information'
(you will then be directed to another page and might need to type in your password)
4.In your account summary page, under all your personal information, you'll see a link that says 'Registered information' - click on it
5. In the name and lastname fiels type in the name you wish to appear as a sender. *This cant be left blank.
6. click on 'Save' at the bottom of the page
7. click on 'sign out' at top of page
hi,
i just cant change my display name...when i log in to option and than to more option my account summary keeps on downloading and result in nothing
please tell me how to change my display name thanx
and regards
Posted by: mr bilal at November 3, 2008 5:46 AMbilal
hi,
i just cant change my display name...when i log in to option and than to more option my account summary keeps on downloading and result in nothing
please tell me how to change my display name thanx
Posted by: hamza at November 11, 2008 4:07 AMand regards
hamza