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How to change your Hotmail password isn't always obvious, particularly when Windows Live keeps changing. I'll walk through changing your Hotmail password.
I cannot get into the account summary page or options of my Windows Live Hotmail account. I needed to change my password.
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This is something that changes from time to time as Windows Live Hotmail updates. As I've said before, if you use Windows Live Hotmail, you should expect change. Sometimes small change, sometimes dramatic change, but change nonetheless.
Including the steps to change your Windows Live Hotmail password.
I'll walk through the steps to change your password in the current (as of this writing) design.
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Change Your Hotmail Password
After you login to Windows Live Hotmail, click on the Options menu:
On the resulting drop down menu, click on More options:
On the resulting "Hotmail Options" page, underneath "Manage Your Account", click on the Account details (password, aliases, time zone) link:
For security, Windows Live may ask you for your password again. Once you've entered it, you should end up on an account information page, that includes "Account Information":
Click on the Change button and you'll be taken through the steps to change your password.
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Note that this changes your password for your Windows Live account, and will affect all Windows Live services on which you use that account. We got here through Hotmail, but if you use this account for Windows Live (MSN) Messenger or any of the other Windows Live (formerly MSN branded) services, this password change will apply to all of them.
(This is an update to an article originally published December 4, 2008.)
Article C3582 - December 17, 2010
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.
Thanks Leo for all your help. I would not know what to do without you. Gayle
Posted by: gayle steele-manning at April 25, 2012 6:36 PMThank you, thank you, thank you. Why is this so damn hard for me to find every time?
Posted by: Cindy at April 28, 2012 10:58 PMWell, I reckon I'd have spent all day struggling to work out how to change the password if I'd not found your pages, so thank you. In the end it's so easy. Bravo.
Posted by: Philip at May 10, 2012 2:25 AMThank you very much! I can never remember where it is!
Posted by: Lise Lajeunesse at May 12, 2012 7:30 AMThank you, thank you, thank you.Thank you very much! I can never remember where it is!
Posted by: Mohit Panwar at May 15, 2012 6:43 AM