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General questions relating to both the older MSN Hotmail free email service from Microsoft.

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Am I Too Hard on Hotmail?

Can I automatically forward my Hotmail?
Unfortunately, you cannot automatically have mail forwarded through your Hotmail email address. (Continue reading...)

Can I check when my last Hotmail login was?

Can I find my Hotmail mail on my machine somewhere?
Web based email services like Hotmail keep your mail on their servers. But your browser might be caching the email you read on your hard disk. (Continue reading...)

Can I rename my Hotmail account?

Can I tell when my Hotmail account was created?
Windows Live Hotmail will typically show you the date your Windows Live account was created - even if it was created before Windows Live existed. (Continue reading...)

Can I use Outlook Express or Outlook to access my Hotmail account?

Could the Hotmail Servers be Infected?

Does MSN Hotmail or Windows Live Hotmail keep a log of when I signed in?
Web services often log activities and usage information. Exactly how much is logged and what it takes to access the logs is typically not known. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my "From" user name in MSN Hotmail?

How do I change my Hotmail name or address?

How do I change my MSN HotMail Secret Question?

How do I change my MSN Hotmail Alternate E-mail Address?
Your alternate email address is a second email address used to recover your hacked or lost HotMail account. You must change your alternate email address if you lose access to that second account, or you risk not being able to recover your Hotmail account should you lose the password or get hacked. (Continue reading...)

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. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my MSN Hotmail password?
Changing your MSN Hotmail password with step-by-step instructions. Changing your Hotmail password is easy, and you should do it regularly. (Continue reading...)

How do I change my MSN Messenger or Hotmail password?
Changing your MSN Messenger password isn't all that obvious. Short step-by-step instructions to change your MSN Messenger and Hotmail password. (Continue reading...)

How do I choose plain text in Hotmail?
Plain text email is smaller, often easier to read, and more consistently displayed than rich text. Here's how to switch between the two in Hotmail. (Continue reading...)

How do I contact Hotmail Customer Service?

How do I contact MSN Hotmail Customer Service?
If you encounter problems with MSN Hotmail, it's natural to want to contact customer service. Not easy, perhaps not helpful, but it is possible. (Continue reading...)

How do I delete my Hotmail account?
Delete your MSN Hotmail account with these step-by-step instructions. Deleting your MSN Hotmail account isn't neccessary, but it's easy to do. (Continue reading...)

How do I display my MSN Hotmail or other email in the order it was sent?
Every so often the sort order of email in your inbox may change unexpectedly. A stray click can do that, and a not-so-stray click can fix it. (Continue reading...)

How do I download my Hotmail messages to my computer?
Downloading Hotmail messages to your computer is easy - or it's not - depending on your account. I look at some ways to download Hotmail messages, including the one I actually use myself. (Continue reading...)

How do I find out who owns a Hotmail account?

How do I make a new MSN Hotmail account?
Making a new MSN Hotmail account isn't as obvious as many think. First you need to make the option to make a new MSN Hotmail account visible - by signing out. (Continue reading...)

How do I make an msn.com email address instead of hotmail.com?
msn.com appears to be a desirable domain name for email addresses. Unfortunately it's not that easy to get an msn.com email address. (Continue reading...)

How do I make my own secret question with MSN Hotmail or Windows Live Hotmail?
Windows Live Hotmail uses a fixed set of secret questions. You can't change which you'll be asked but you can fake it by changing which one you answer. (Continue reading...)

How do I prevent MSN Hotmail from signing me in automatically?

How do I resolve my Hotmail email problems?

How do I resolve my MSN Hotmail sign in problems?

How do I switch Windows Live Hotmail back to the old style MSN Hotmail?
Windows Live Hotmail is the new interface to your Hotmail account. You can currently switch back to MSN Hotmail, but that may not stay true. (Continue reading...)

How do I transfer Hotmail contacts to another account?
With a little work, it is possible to transfer Hotmail contacts into another account such as Outlook Express. (Continue reading...)

How do I view full headers in Windows Live Hotmail?
The ability to view full headers in Windows Live Hotmail seems to be missing. Hopefully it will return. (Continue reading...)

I've forgotten the answer to my MSN Hotmail secret question, *and* my password, what do I do?

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 (Continue reading...)

Is there an email forwarding service for MSN/Hotmail?

MSN Hotmail: how long will Hotmail keep my account open?
MSN Hotmail will delete your information, and even delete your account, if you don't use it often enough. I cover those numbers, and what you should really be doing instead anyway. (Continue reading...)

What are MSN HotMail's POP3 and SMTP settings for Outlook Express?
MSN HotMail POP3 and SMTP settings are a common request. MSN HotMail provides no POP3 and SMTP servers for free accounts, but third party services might. (Continue reading...)

What are the POP3 and SMTP settings for Hotmail?

Why can't I access Hotmail?
It's apparently common to have trouble accessing Hotmail. Unfortunately there is no clear reason why or even a clear direction to take. (Continue reading...)

Why can't I open attachments in Hotmail?
Opening attachments in Hotmail is easy - if Hotmail lets you. If Hotmail doesn't support the attachment type, Hotmail won't open the attachment. Period. (Continue reading...)

Why doesn't MSN Hotmail save my Sent Mail?

Why is my MSN Hotmail Inbox suddenly empty?
I get periodic reports of email disappearing from Hotmail Inboxes. "Why" might be interesting, but more important is "What now?" (Continue reading...)

Will MSN Hotmail tell me who logged into my account?

Will sending someone a link to my Hotmail allow them to get in?
It's easy to mistakenly send someone a link directly to your Hotmail mail. The good news it that, unless they know your password, it's a benign mistake. (Continue reading...)