How to change your Hotmail password ?




Easy instructions for changing your Live Hotmail password.

If you have registered an account with a free web based email service provider (such as Hotmail / Live Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo Mail etc’), you might want to keep your account secure by periodically changing its password.

Here’s a quick procedure you should follow in order to change your Hotmail (now named Windows Live Hotmail) password:

  1. Login to your Hotmail mail account.
  2. Click the Options button (at the right hand side)
  3. Click More Options
  4. In the Manage your Account Settings, click View and edit your personal information.
  5. At this stage you might be prompted to authenticate yourself by supplying your current password.
  6. Click the Change link at the right hand side of your password. The following form will open up: image
  7. Enter your current password, and type your new selected password twice.
  8. Tip: If you want your password to auto-expire, click the Make my password expire every 72 days check box. 
  9.  Click Save.

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3 Responses to “How to change your Hotmail password ?”

  1. sarika on February 3rd, 2008 7:46 am

    Hotmail live a/c is not proper respond to change the password. After going to personal information it shows loading…… option contineous and nothing going onward option.
    This hotmail A/c is very bad experience for me.
    Sorry to say but our company is going to close your hotmail a/c and search new a/c.
    Bad bad…… a/c hotmail live ….
    I think on website this hotmail will be removed….

  2. Jim Webb on March 30th, 2008 12:13 pm

    this instruction message is not working for my computer W2000 ….? why …? NO ONE at Microsoft Service Support will help me very frustrating …………for a novice you are tooooo big ,.,., >>> NO Service< NO FEEDBACK

  3. Ali Baba on April 15th, 2008 6:09 am

    Hotmail live a/c is not proper working to change my password. After going into personal information it shows loading…… option contineous and nothing doing further.
    This hotmail A/c have become very bad for me.
    if anyone can help me plz do my help i am in need of change my hotmail password.

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