Hmm..... earlier today I signed into our Hotmail a/c - no worries, but this afternoon I found that Microsoft would not let me in, even though I signed in as before, but now they want more personal info, saying that a password is not enough if they need to get in touch with us!!!! Has anyone else come across this, and if so, how do I 'fix' the situation so I can get back into our Hotmail a/c. Ta and thank you.
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A few years ago I was able to open my hotmail but not actually do anything... this went on for about a week, then it locked me out. Nothing I could do. Fortunately I'd written down all the e-mail addresses on my list, and later opened a gmail account. So far so good, but it keeps asking me for my moblie #. I reckon Google knows enough about me already! Good luck with it Pejay!
yes, it happened to me only a few weeks ago. Exactly how you are describing, maybe because we went back in for the 2nd time that day, although I often go back in to hotmail 5 or 6 times a day. Anyway I had to go through that process and it took 5 days. When I was back in they sent me an email asking me to rate them. Boy, did I give them a piece of my mind. Heard nothing since.
A few years ago I was able to open my hotmail but not actually do anything... this went on for about a week, then it locked me out. Nothing I could do. Fortunately I'd written down all the e-mail addresses on my list, and later opened a gmail account. So far so good, but it keeps asking me for my moblie #. I reckon Google knows enough about me already! Good luck with it Pejay!
I tried it for awhile but found it a damned nuisance. Otherwise, no probs at all with gmail.
Thanks, yes got Win Live. Would you believe I have used that for all my "official e-mails" up until my partner downloaded some stupid program that was supposed to clean up the junk out of the computer and it deleted the whole Win Live from my user!!!. Its just not there. His still works of course.
Same with hotmail, can use it on any computer anywhere. My biggest problem when I lost mine for 5 days was all my online accounts send their notifications to that address.. Plus centrelink and a few other important notifications. Wasn't sure what I was going to do if I lost it permanently. Mainly because I wouldn't remember who they all were.
I was locked out of hotmail by microsoft a while ago but did get an email from them. They said my address had been hijacked by spammers and was sending hundreds of emails via my computer everytime i logged on. Apparently microsoft monitors the number of emails sent and blocks it if they think it is too high. I had to go through a long winded process of identifying myself.You can open another hotmail account if you want to continue sending email however I eventually went to gmail where I never receive any spam.
No, you can use the new Outlook.com interface with an existing @hotmail.com or @live.com address. Microsoft has no plans (and no reason) to abandon support for those addresses.
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Cheers, Chris...
"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin
Well yesterday was trying to get my mail that worked in the morning and not that afternoon from (outlook) part of Microsoft Office, what I do is have my gmail come through outlook and have never had a problem till yesterday, for somebody that's been in computers for 20 years you would think it would be fix by now, no not yet just can not work it out but I do know there was a microsoft update the other day and trying to see if that has done somthing
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Well good on Google, looks like they are to blame, now to get it to work...
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