![]() ![]() Remember, you must have access to the email address to which Hotmail will send that approval link. Since this is a change you requested, click on the “Approve” link, and you’ll be taken back to the Account information page, with the newly added email address shown. To learn more, please read our online privacy If you didn’t add leonew********, cancel the request by using this link: ![]() If you added leonew*********, great! Use this link to confirm It looks like you added an alternate email address to your Windows Live You can use this email address to reset your password if Here’s the email confirmation that I received: ![]() This is critically important to prevent someone from being able to add their address to your account – if they got the confirmation request, they could confirm it and in doing so would be able to take over your account. Note that the email was not sent to the new address, but rather to an existing email address associated with the account – either the Hotmail address itself, or another alternate email address already associated with the account. Once you click on Add you’ll be taken to this page:Īs you can see I have a mobile phone associated with the account, so I received both a text message and an email indicating that the change needed to be confirmed. You’ll then be asked to enter the new email address (twice – you’d be shocked at how often people mistype their own email address): You’ll be asked to confirm your password (to avoid someone walking by and adding their email address while you’re away from your computer). ![]() To add a new email address in its place, click on the Add link. If it’s no longer valid, click the corresponding Remove link. This takes you to the following page showing you the details of your account including your name, attributes that you included about you, and an important section on “Password reset information”:Īs you can see, your current alternate email address is listed, if you have one. On the resulting page, underneath “Managing your account”, click on the Account details link: If you have lost access to your account, if it’s been hacked, if you’ve forgotten your password then it’s too late.Īfter logging into Hotmail, click on the Options link at the upper right of the screen, and then the More Options link that appears at the bottom of the resulting menu: ![]()
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