I know absolutely nothing about OUTLOOK 2010. It is also asking me in a whole bunch of following screen’s and questions that I must click this, do this, do that, enter this, establish an enterprise(?) protocol to connect to some unknown server and etc., etc., on and on it goes. Well this is Good, very good! But, now I am encountering a whole ‘new’ dilemma – MSN is now requesting that if I want to send an email, that I use OUTLOOK 2010. I use Hotmail for both outgoing and incoming email. Good! Windows 8.0, Ah, not so good yet, still feeling my way around I go back and use Windows 7 when I get confused, which happens quite often. In other words, if you changed this password, you’ve just changed the password associated with SkyDrive, Skype (if you’re using your Microsoft account for that), and many other Microsoft services that uses this email address to login.

It’s important to realize that your Hotmail or your account (or actually any of several different Microsoft-offered email accounts) are actually your Microsoft account. Important: You’ve changed your Microsoft account password This takes you through the steps to change your password. Look for the Password and Security Info section and click the Change password link. Once you’ve entered it correctly, the Overview page opens. On the resulting page, under Managing your account, click Account details (password, aliases, time zone):įor security, you may be asked for your password again. Then, click More mail settings from the drop-down menu. Start by clicking the gear icon near the upper right.

Yes, you must be able to login to change your password. There are probably other ways to get to this, but the most familiar is to simply login to your email online using. I’ll walk through the steps to change your password in the current (as of this writing) design. Sometimes, it’s small and other times, it’s quite dramatic – such as how you change your password. As Microsoft updates its mail offering, some of its features are moving or changing.Īs I’ve mentioned before, if you have a Hotmail (or, as it’s now called) account, you should expect change.

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