It's easy to reset your Hotmail password if you've forgotten
it. Maybe it's been too long since you last used your email and so you're having
trouble remembering the password. Regardless of the reason for resetting your
Hotmail password, you can use Outlook to do it.
How to Reset a
Forgotten Live Mail Hotmail Account Password?
When you're on the Outlook login screen, all you have to do
is follow the on-screen steps to choose a new password and get back into your mail.
You have to use Outlook instead of Hotmail.com since the former is how you
access Hotmail email—both @outlook accounts and @Hotmail accounts are accessed
through Outlook.
Resetting a Hotmail password is just as easy as reset password Hotmail account: just
follow the instructions to verify your identity and get a new email password.
1.
Open Outlook in your web browser to find the
sign-in page.
2.
Enter your Hotmail email address and then click
next.
3.
On the password screen, click the Forgot my
password link.
4.
From the Why can't you sign in? Page, choose I
forgot my password and then click next.
5.
To recover your Hotmail password, verify your
email address on the next screen and then type the characters you see in the
image, followed by Next.
6.
Regardless of what's on the Verify your identity
page—since the options there depend on how you've set up security in your
Hotmail account—choose Use a different verification option.
7.
Choose an appropriate option from that list:
·
The email option sends a password reset link to
the email address on file. You have to enter the full address in order to use
this method.
·
The text option sends a text message to help you
log in. Type the last four digits of your phone number to use it.
·
Another option, if you've enabled it in the
past, is to use the authenticator app to reset your password.
·
Finally, if you don't have access to any of
those reset methods, you can choose I don't have any of these.
·
Choose Send code if you picked the email or text
option, or click Next if you're using the app to reset your Hotmail password or
if you don't have access to any of those methods.
8.
Enter a new password into both fields provided
on the website, and click Next to finish resetting your Hotmail password.
If you don't use your Hotmail
account recovery very much anymore, and that's the reason you've forgotten
the password, consider forwarding emails sent to that address to some other
account that you do use and check often (like a Gmail or Yahoo account, or even
another Outlook account).
