Summary: Change your MSN Hotmail password with step-by-step instructions. Changing your Hotmail password is easy, and you should do it regularly.
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I get this question so often about Hotmail that it's clear that the process is not obvious enough or documented well enough by MSN.
Allow me....
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First, you must be able to log in. If you cannot login to Hotmail, you cannot change your password. Period. See the links to related articles for some help if you cannot login.
Once you've logged in to MSN Hotmail, in the upper right hand corner is a link labeled Options:
Click that.
On the resulting page, you'll find a link labeled Password:
Hotmail may then ask you to login again, to prove that you are the account holder by knowing the old password:
Once you've entered the correct password, you'll then be taken to the Change Your Password page:
Enter your old password where indicated, and then enter a new password in the two places that's requested. Press continue, and you'll be taken to the login page again where you can use your new password to login.
That's all there is to it!
Related:
How do I change my MSN Hotmail password if I forgot it? Need to change your Hotmail password, but you forgot it? There are a couple of ways to change your Hotmail password - if you set things up properly when you created the account.
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I've lost my Hotmail password, can you help get it back? If you have lost your Hotmail password, it's impossible for me to get it back for you. However, there are measures you can take to avoid this situation
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Someone has stolen my email account. What can I do to get it back? The outlook is grim if your email account has been stolen, but there are a couple things that you can try to do to recover it.
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Article C2354 - May 20, 2005
Thanks Leo, your article saved me alot of time. Someone had stolen the password for my Hotmail account, I was able to quickly and easily change thanks to you!
Posted by: Wilkie Brown at August 11, 2005 5:10 AMhi leo
someone has signed in as me on my account and i want to change my password i know how to get there but i cant read the writing how do i enlarge it so i can read it and how can i change my hotmail without losing all my contacts and emails??
manythankx
from amy wb plz
Posted by: amy at August 12, 2005 12:11 AMid like to thank you for the advice that msn should make more ovious to non-computer literate people. why do msn make simple topics seem so difficult?
Posted by: brad at August 13, 2005 10:12 AMunder options there is no password to click it must have changed.can u look into that.plz
Posted by: karkar at August 14, 2005 2:21 PMAs pictured in the article, it's right there for me. I did double check. Not sure what to tell you.
Posted by: Leo at August 14, 2005 3:33 PMhelpful
Posted by: david mclean at August 15, 2005 10:13 AMhi im stiffy some 1 has found out me password plz teel me how to get on to it because im getting sick of it
Posted by: joshua at August 18, 2005 3:34 AMhow do i
Posted by: joshua at August 18, 2005 3:35 AMchange me password
how do i change my password &change it to a new one?
Posted by: chady at August 18, 2005 10:12 AMI'm closing comments on this article. Most are simply the same question, as answered in the article, over and over again.
To change your MSN Hotmail password: read the article at the top of the page.
Posted by: Leo at August 18, 2005 10:22 AM