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Email password recovery?

I have a hotmail account that I am unable to log into for the last one week. I really do not know the reason.

Is there any way I can recover it? I do not remember answer to the secret question also.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    if you have given an alternate email id for your account then try giving the alternate email id in the password recovery process to get the password in that email id. if not then create a new one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you've simply forgotten your password, MSN Hotmail does provide at least one level of back-door that you can use to recover it - your alternate email address or secret question. If you don't have those, you're probably out of luck.

    Here's the approach to take when you've lost your password....

    If your sign in to Hotmail fails, notice that there's a link immediately below the password field

    "forgot your password"

    Click on that, and you'll be taken the "match the picture" question

    This dialog exists solely to prove that you are human ... current technology makes it extremely difficult for computers to examine that picture and understand the letters that are displayed within it. It's not always that easy for humans either! But the point is to prevent computer programs from being written which can try to guess passwords in some high-speed automated fashion ... you have to prove you're human first.

    Assuming you are human, you're then given two options

    If you've configured Hotmail with an alternate email address, as I strongly recommend you do, you can have Hotmail email you at the alternate address a special message with a link that will then allow you to select a new Hotmail password.

    Since most people having problems are using Hotmail as their only email address (another practice I strongly discourage), we'll go the other route and click on "Provide account information and answer your secret question.

    i doubt whether it is your account or someone else account

  • 1 decade ago

    OOOOOpppppsssss..., as per i know there is no any method now to get ur mailbox back.. Try to remeber the forgotten password or hint answer.....

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