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My MSN Hotmail name is "something@hotmail.com". I really don't like the "something". What I'd really like is to be "soemthingelse@hotmail.com". How do I change it? This is another one of those seemingly simple questions that I get several times every day. What you're asking for is not to change your name, but your email address. Unfortunately your email address is how MSN Hotmail identifies you. A different email address means a completely different MSN Hotmail account. Let's clarify something first, though. Your MSN Hotmail identity consists of two parts: your display name (like "Leo Notenboom") and your email address ("something@hotmail.com"). You can easily change your MSN Hotmail display name, I've covered that in a previous article. But you cannot change the email address of your Hotmail account. You can only create a new account with a new email address. To do that:
"... you cannot change the email address of your Hotmail
account."
After your new account has been created, you can start using it. But your old account still exists. You will need to manually move all your contacts from your old Hotmail account to your new one. You will need to tell all your contacts that you have a new email address, and that they should stop using the old one. You will need to change anywhere else you use your old email address, for example in MSN Instant Messenger. And when you're all done, you may, or may not, want to delete your old MSN Hotmail account. Remember some time after you close your account, your old email name will become available for someone else to take and use as their own. As you can see, it's a lot of work, and it's definitely not easy to do. It's yet another reason I don't recommend free email services for anything important. Related:
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Thank you Leo for guiding me for how to get a new email account. You were definetly right about how it doesnt come up in a serch results. My father couldn't help me create one because he couldn't remember, so thanls again Posted by: Charlie at January 2, 2008 04:28 PMOn Msn Live Messenger it won't let me copy and paste letters on to my display name. How do i enable it so i can paste text on to my display name? Posted by: Jess at February 5, 2008 09:19 AMonly last name change to rahimi. Posted by: pooyan rahimi at February 11, 2008 05:10 AMI cannot find option Posted by: alex at February 23, 2008 07:16 AMI purchased additional storage under Hotmail (MSN Hotmail Plus) to get additional storage for a MSN User Group I had set up over a year ago. The Group no longer exists, but the renewal for the group was automatically reissued. I recently set up a new MSN User Group and unfortunately used my own personal email address instead of the hotmailplus account (my personal email is a Canadian ISP that does hook itself on some things to MSN. Is there any way I can move this group to my hotmail plus account? I cannot change the name of the MSN User Gp. at this time as it will only confuse the seniors who joined it, even more, but I really need the additional 30 mb of storage I paid for. The only other possibility would be for people joining or viewing the existing group to get a link on accessing the existing address that automatically forwards them to a new website in MSN groups utilizing the hotmail plus account, or a new one that I could have the billing people transfer the account/storage to. I have tried to contact MSN U.S. but since my own ISP is Canadian, I am automatically forwarded to Bell Sympatico/MSN when I press the "MSN Support and Feedback" button and they cannot help me. This is a regular question ask by many people in search of help or assistant to enable them create a net account. When answering this question many people seem to forget that it is not everyone that views the sign up options. ________________________________________
i would like to change my msn messenger email address On Msn Live Messenger it won't let me copy and paste letters on to my display name. How do i enable it so i can paste text on to my display name? Posted by: hope at June 30, 2008 09:02 AMI have a paid-for Hotmail account so by changing the profile my credit card name will no longer match the profile name. I have gone ahead and done this but will the cc bounce? My problem is that I am away for long periods without Internet access so if the cc bounces I cannot action it for some time...meaning that my 'space' and POP3 access will lapse. It seems that this ought to have a proper solution that does not involve giving a false name to Hotmail but giving your real first given name and surname on every email is a heck of a security risk when you think of all those copied emails on peoples' pcs that have no anti-virus in place. Any suggestions or comments? Many thanks. Posted by: David at July 13, 2008 09:49 AMhank you Leo for guiding me for how to get a new email account. You were definetly right about how it doesnt come up in a serch results. My father couldn't help me create one because he couldn't remember, so thanls again Post a comment on "How do I change my Hotmail name or address?":
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