**How do I recover my Hotmail Account if I forget my password?**

Did you forget your Hotmail password and can’t access your account? It’s easy to recover your password through Microsoft Outlook online, which is now the official email provider for any email address ending in “@hotmail.com”. We’ll teach you the easiest way to reset your Hotmail login password using your recovery email address or phone number.

Using a Computer with a Recovery Email or Phone Number

Go to https://account.live.com/resetpassword.aspx in your browser. This website allows you to reset your password for an account provided you still have access to the backup you used to set up the Hotmail or Outlook account.

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Enter the email address you want to recover and click Next. Make sure you enter the email address of the account you want to recover. Then click the blue button that says Next

Click the radio option next to your preferred recovery method. You should see a partial alternate email address or phone number that you provided when you set up the account. Click whichever method you want to use to recover your account.

If you do not have a recovery option or cannot access any of the recovery methods listed, you will need to fill out a form on Microsoft’s website to recover your account.

Enter the email address or phone number and click Get code. Once you select a recovery method, it asks you to provide either the full recovery email address or the last 4 digits of your phone number on the space provided. Then click Get code. An email or text message with a verification code will be sent to you.

Retrieve the recovery code. Use one of the following steps to retrieve the recovery code:

Email: Open the recovery email address, select the email from “Microsoft account team”, and note the code next to the “Security code” heading.

Text: Open your phone’s Messages app, tap the text from Microsoft (usually a six-digit phone number), and note the code in the text message.

Enter the recovery code and click Next. Type the code into the text field in the middle of the page, then click Next. As long as the code that you enter matches the one that you received, you’ll be taken to the password reset page.

Enter a new password. Type your new password into the “New password” and “Reenter password” fields. Make sure you enter the password exactly the same for both fields.

Click Next when prompted. This will take you back to the sign-in page where you can sign into your account using your new password.

Using a Computer Without a Recovery Email or Phone Number

Go to https://account.live.com/acsr using a web browser. You can use any web browser of your choice, like Google Chrome. This website allows you to recover a Microsoft account without access to the backup email accounts or phone number you used to create the account. You will need to provide as much information as possible. Microsoft will review the information you send and determine if it’s adequate enough to allow you to recover your account.

Enter the account you want to recover. Enter the email address you want to recover in the box below “Email, phone, or Skype name”. You can enter a Hotmail, or Outlook account.

Enter an alternate email address. This is an email address that will be used to send a verification code. Enter an alternate email address in the box below “Where should we contact you?”.

Enter the characters at the bottom and click Next. There is an image with some letters at the bottom. Enter the letters you see in the box at the bottom and click Next.

If you can’t read the characters, you can either click New for a different image, or click Audio to hear the letters spoken allowed.

5. Retrieve the verification code. To do so, check the backup email address you enter and look for an email address from “Microsoft account team”. Check for a 4-digit code in bold. It’s next to “Security code” in the message.

6. Enter the security code and click Verify. Enter the 4-digit security code you retrieved from your email and click the blue button that says “Verify.

”7. Fill out your personal information and click Next. You will need to enter your name, date of birth, country, state, and zip code, as well as answer the security question you provided an answer for when you set up the account. Click Next when you are finished.

If you don’t know the answers to any of the questions asked on any of these forms, just leave the field blank and continue to the next one.

8. Enter any passwords you might remember. If you can remember any passwords you might have used with the Hotmail or Outlook account you want to recover, enter in the spaces at the top

To add more passwords, click Add another password below the two boxes. The more information you can provide, the better.

9. Click the checkbox next to any other Microsoft accounts you might have. Click all that apply. Click the checkbox if you have any of the following:

Outlook.com or Hotmail: Click this checkbox if you have any other Hotmail or Outlook.com accounts, besides the one you are trying to recover.

Skype: Click this checkbox if you have a Skype account.

Xbox: Click this checkbox if you have an Xbox account.

10. Click “Yes” or “No” if you purchased anything from Microsoft and click Next. If you have made any purchases directly from Microsoft, either using an Xbox account or the Microsoft Store on Windows, click Yes. This can include software, devices, or subscriptions such as Office 365. If you have not purchased anything from Microsoft, click No. Click Next when you are ready to continue.

11. Enter any contacts or subject lines you remember and click Next. If you can remember any contacts you sent to using the account you want to recover, enter them in the boxes at the top. If you can remember any subject lines you sent, enter them in the boxes at the bottom. Click Next when you are ready to continue.

If you can’t remember any contacts or subject lines, try contacting friends and family that may have received emails from you and see if they can help.

12. Enter your Skype information and click Next (if needed). If you checked that you have a Skype account, enter your Skype name and email address you used to sign up for your Skype account. Then enter 3 Skype contacts and click Next.

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