How do I change my MSN Hotmail password?I've had an MSN Hotmail account for a while and have suddenly become paranoid that I might have had my password intercepted by a key sniffer. How do I change my password in Hotmail? You are wise to change your password on MSN Hotmail (aka Microsoft Live Hotmail) as it's a frequent target of phishing attacks and other password scraping scams. If you are going to use Hotmail, I'd suggest you change your password every 2-3 months, at a minimum. To change your password, log in to your Hotmail account, then click on "Options" in the top right:  At this point you can change quite a few settings, but the two important ones are shown here:  We'll change password, but remember this is how you also change your security question in Hotmail if you ever need to make that change...  Most of that's self-explanatory, but I strongly suggest that you check off the box adjacent to "Make my password expire every 72 days". This will make the system automatically require you to change your password every ten weeks or so, which is a great way to remember that you should be changing your password with some frequency. In fact, I don't know why Hotmail doesn't automatically set this option. Hope that helps you figure out how to keep your Hotmail account more secure.
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. you left out a few steps. like how to get to this page Posted by: kenny at February 9, 2007 12:09 PMi want to change me msn and hotmail password Posted by: ian roberts at March 2, 2007 6:42 PMhow to change your password on msn Posted by: Stephanie Wilkie at April 14, 2007 3:11 PMi could NOT find anything where it tells you how to change your hotmail password. ya think you could email me and tell me or something.. cuz all i wanna do is change my password i never knew it would be this hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: michelle at April 24, 2007 8:06 PMnever let anyone change my password again Posted by: haroon younis at April 30, 2007 2:34 PMhow do i change may password hotmail? Posted by: fernando neves at May 1, 2007 12:05 AMim confused with this paport an msn im gonewildtina@msn.com but how i get password for that i forgot it an im logged in but have no clue what pass is im trying to set up trillian an need it would also like to reset while im at it so thell all be the same Posted by: TINA at May 5, 2007 9:55 AMI need to change my hotmail password because some one knows my password. Thanks Posted by: Annet Peart at May 7, 2007 1:25 PMhi i could not see these two options after clicking to options menue i.e I have an hotmail address secrets12yr and an old one secrets4yr both at hotmail.com I totally forgot my password for the 4yr address and just having been using this at all. I started a new one using 12yr. Well someone is e-mailing me from the 4yr and a friend of mind is getting the same thing. I would like 4yr to be terminated if this is at all possible. PLEASE tell me what to do Posted by: Eileen at May 17, 2007 6:47 AMI have a problem here, I'm using my previous company email to register as a user of Messenger (sclow@mnc.com.my) my email is deactivated. Somehow its still work with the MSN passport. Now my messenger got spam by some morons. I need to know how can I change my password? PLz help! Posted by: Low Sing Chyuan at May 28, 2007 12:00 AMI want to change my password but I never knew it would be this hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hi i am on the msn windows live messenger and i want to change my password becuase people keep hacking into it without permission so how do i change my hotmail address from danielle Posted by: danielle at July 20, 2007 9:36 AMI WANT TO CHANGE MY PASSWORD Posted by: ELVIRA at July 21, 2007 9:00 PMhello i needed help changing my password you didn't explainit and i had no clue what the hek you where talking about Posted by: megintish at July 22, 2007 2:46 PMhow i do change my password Posted by: lovely at July 23, 2007 2:20 PMDear Dave, Thank you Posted by: alice at July 28, 2007 10:21 PMThe "password" page in the Options doesn't open. It takes forever to load until it times out. I'm connected at 230Kbps, so my internet connection isn't the problem. How can I change my password? Posted by: Omar Nadeem at August 6, 2007 8:49 AMHiii
Thank Youu ! :);] Posted by: mollie at August 6, 2007 3:10 PMHi i can not access my old hotmail address due to the fact that very time when i enter my pass word it's rejected. Can my new password for my old email address be sent to my new email address? and if not how can i solve this problem. DEAR SIR I HAD A LONG TIME AN EMAIL WHICH I KEPT MY LESSONS AND I FORGET MY PASSWORD AND I COULD NOT FIND HOW TO REOPEN MY EMAIL. I FORGET TOO MY HSTORY PASSWORD SO HOW I CAN GET AGAIN MY EMAIL OR REOPEN. IS THERE A SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM. PLS HELP ME hi Hi, Dave, how do I change my hotmail password regards please take me back to where i am coming from the main yahoomail i have a lot of work to do there i am bidding on something veryvery important Posted by: peterphillip at August 19, 2007 6:53 PMHey, I tried to click on optional of my password change, but it has struggled to wait and continue. Also I again click on "Optional" a few times, it's not response the show on a personal account from the optional on a error website.. I'm very afraid of that someone checked up and match of my password in my e-mail becuz I find out who was stranger someone put in my friend's email in the block. Please let u know.. I need your help.. Elvia Posted by: Elvia S. at August 31, 2007 9:20 AMplease help me retrive my password or create a new one beacuse i recently change my passwoed and can remeber it. please help me in creating a new password so i can check my emails. you can email me @ lynlee65@hotmail.com\ Patricia Paul Posted by: Patricia Paul at September 11, 2007 5:28 PMhey how do i change my password on tagged??my boyfriend just guessed it n now i wanna change it..help!!! Posted by: jen at September 19, 2007 5:36 PMhi am glad u show me how to change my password nah mi m8ts cant get on mi web and delete mi m8ts from mi messanger it is so annoying thanx :) Posted by: kirsty at September 22, 2007 10:31 AMUm... i got the "option" part but i coudn't find the "reset password" button or "reset secret question" button.It is hopeless and i advice you people out there "DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE!!!" wat happends if you upgraded hotmail and (option) is not there any more Posted by: tegan at September 29, 2007 10:44 PMthe msn is site is worst site that i had ever seen it is not having a option of changing a site soooo from my and from my friends its the worst site iv change my pasword loads of times but its no use cuz i no that other ppl can just hack into it simpley ,its easy this is oh they do it.. they click on forgot password then it probally says write new one soo they do they try this loads of time on diffrent pages,what i mean is ,if it says forgot passowrd and it says secrity question they would click something elese till they find some way of changeing it without useing secrity question Posted by: david at December 31, 2007 11:20 AMmerci Posted by: larbi at January 29, 2008 7:06 AMplease i need help ..i forgot the password of my another email, and the secter answer ..please heelp me get back my email ..reply soon on this email please Posted by: nabeel at January 31, 2008 11:18 AMi dont find wat u said::::::: I HAD A LONG TIME AN EMAIL WHICH I KEPT MY FILES AND I FORGET MY PASSWORD AND I COULD NOT FIND HOW TO REOPEN MY EMAIL. I FORGET TOO MY HSTORY PASSWORD SO HOW I CAN GET AGAIN MY EMAIL OR REOPEN. IS THERE A SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM THNX SIR HOPE U HELP ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Posted by: tamoo at February 15, 2008 7:23 AMdear dave sir iam so worried i forget my pasword and 1 i dnt know who miss use my acccount and i also forget my secrete question answer plz help me Posted by: nisar at February 22, 2008 1:33 AMu are so cool Posted by: Miley at February 23, 2008 3:54 PMi cant get in my emails is this normal? Posted by: Lisa Lavoie at February 23, 2008 10:31 PMyou have told me how to change my password but a cannot find what you told me to click on please help me !!!!!!!! Posted by: kayleigh at February 24, 2008 10:32 AMmy language is automatically changed into spanish what should i do to change it into english????????????????? Posted by: anny at March 7, 2008 2:13 AMi want to remember my password or i want to have my old passwoord that i had forget again thats for hotmail important i seriously need mah password changing but sumone knws mah secret answer i dont kno how 2 change secret answer... plzzzzzzzzz sumone tell me what 2 do!! * but the right correct thing 2 do* hi im sarah and i really need to change my secret and secret question becuase my friend knows it coz she knows my best friend and my best friend is the answer well its her name!! but can u help me?? Posted by: sarah at April 2, 2008 4:22 AMHi Dave, just today my computer reset from a power surge and I lost my Messenger box, which allows my emails to pop up instantly. About a month ago I changed my hotmail password, but I cannot remember it, and the system won't let me answer any of my security questions unless I'm already in my hotmail. I tried sending to alternate email, but it's not my sympatico email, as I had thought, so I'm stuck. I need immediate access to my account and ability to answer my security questions and reset my password as this is my all-purpose Internet account, and my account for business too. Could you help? I'm willing to pay your fee for service, please respond asap, thanks! Help me!! I changed my password last night and compelty forgot it. I also have no idea what my secret question is. I have an important email in my account... How to I get into it, or how do I contact hotmail....??? Posted by: alyson at April 11, 2008 12:31 AMi want to change my password because someone knows it Posted by: kristi at April 18, 2008 3:03 AMPLEASE HELP ME i dont know how 2 change my msn password can u email telling me how to do it step by step that will help ALOT FAMKS Posted by: eda at April 19, 2008 8:49 AMhi I used to have my hotmail password saved on my harddrive, but when my pc came back from the technician my harddrive information was erased. I can't remember my secret question. Is there anyway of getting back my hotmail password or do i need to open another account? Posted by: veronica at April 20, 2008 6:47 PMI HAD A LONG TIME AN EMAIL WHICH I KEPT MY FILES AND I FORGET MY PASSWORD AND I COULD NOT FIND HOW TO REOPEN MY EMAIL. I FORGET TOO MY HSTORY PASSWORD AND MY SECRET QUESTION, SO HOW I CAN GET AGAIN MY EMAIL OR REOPEN. IS THERE A SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM, PLEASE DO YOUR BEST TO HELP ME, I NEED IT URGENT. THNX SIR Posted by: Ryan at April 30, 2008 12:10 AMhello its me gul. i have forgotten my password, someone has misused it. i tried to reset my password but failed because i also forgot my secret answer. there is an important email in my account . hope u will help me out as soon as possible thnxxxx..... Posted by: gul at May 4, 2008 11:08 PMi had forgot my password, i tried to reset my password but i failed because i had forgotten my secret answer also, plz u help me out coz there is an important email in my account. thnx. i have a to big of a pass word and its just one letter long and i canit change it can you help me plz. ): plz Posted by: kolton at May 6, 2008 4:06 PMI m not able to change my hotmail pswd :( . pleas help Posted by: Rachana at May 11, 2008 8:54 AMCan anybody help me in changing hotmail pswd. I m not able to chnage. i clicked on options, but there is no option to change pswd. pls help Posted by: rachna at May 16, 2008 12:24 AMI deleted cookies on my computer and now what I believed to be my Hotmail password is not getting me in. Hotmail is sending me info on how to change my password, but they're sending it to the Hotmail account that I can't access. Can you help me? Posted by: Armida at June 1, 2008 7:23 PMPlease can you help me i cant remember my passwork or sec question! I have try to contact msn but they just keep telling me to do the same thing....answer some questions on the account but they wont get back to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Shorrell at June 11, 2008 12:54 AMI set my password to expire after 72 days not knowing that you have to know the answer to your secret question. Now, i can't log in because there is no way i can reset. I don't remember the security question, and i don't know any other way to get my account back. I have been using this account since forever and all my information are inside. Help. Me. Posted by: austen at June 24, 2008 6:11 AMMy account summary take a long time to load (well actually it never display the information)i wana change my pass. If you can help me i wrilly apprisiate that . Thx Posted by: MONARCH at June 26, 2008 3:11 PMi dint get the stuff u helped ................. bt replyme how to do in current style of the hotmail accounts..... reply as early as u can Posted by: talha at July 3, 2008 9:07 AMi dunno if i got hacked or if i changed my password and i cannot answer my secret question i dunno wat happened! i just didnt login for 1 day and it got hacked please help... Posted by: why at July 5, 2008 1:21 PMHi, I was using facebook and I de-activated my account, and now it won't let me sign back in because the msn account I am using for facebook is b_ball_kanak@hotmail.com ... I changed the password for this account and do not know the secret answer as well as the password itself... I can give all my information... and ... I need Help ASAP!! Please!!! Posted by: Kanak at July 6, 2008 5:04 PMHi DAVE! How do i change my msn messenger to an updated version. Thank you Posted by: katia at July 10, 2008 2:02 AMheya dave how do u change your password plz tell me Posted by: beth at July 12, 2008 1:34 AMhi dave can u send me the link to the web so i can change me password becuse some is hacking in my msn Posted by: beth at July 12, 2008 1:39 AMhi, can you please help me change my msn to an updated version (2008)? Thank you. Posted by: katia preta at July 15, 2008 2:13 AMi have no idea what my password is. I do not remember my secret question. now what do i do? Posted by: jag at July 18, 2008 11:42 PMdear sir. i forgot the password and the secret answer and i am really tensed what to do because the email address i.e. firaangel is really important for me and if I am not able to log in I might loose a lot of my important email and work related documents(its an hotmail acct) i have being having a serious problem with my yahoo!email since i have change my password these morning,i was unable to log in into my email.why? Posted by: ABORISADE J AYORINDE at August 7, 2008 8:56 AMi for got my password and my secret question in my msn and can u find it to me plz and u can talk in my G mail this is it plz help me Posted by: tam at August 17, 2008 3:12 AMhello sir,when i want to log in to ma username in MSN it says that ur e-mail or password is incorect,even though i checked alot its correct so tell me what should i do i dont remember that i have registerd in which id of mine,please i need ur help Posted by: Ahmad Mujtaba at September 11, 2008 5:35 AMI can't remember my hotmail password. What can I do? The option to reset goes into my same hotmail address i cannot access! Thanks Posted by: John at September 16, 2008 3:40 PMsave me in changing my password , i want 2 change it plz Posted by: dany at September 17, 2008 2:39 PMi changed my password but when i singin i get a message says " Before you can sign in to Windows Live, you need to choose a new question and secret answer and provide your location and birth year " and it loads for hours without seeing any informations... please help me i really need my email...thanks... Posted by: Firas at September 30, 2008 11:17 AMu cant e mail because someone change my blabla password and all i want is to get into my own comp which has ben 3 hours i know who did it she was homesless young girl big mistake she drove my husband tro the docters who cares please get i used to bepookie67 Posted by: p at October 11, 2008 12:18 AMI WANT TO CAHNGE MY PASS WORD IM SURE SOEMONE KNOWS MY PASS WORD N IM NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT Posted by: ALICIA at October 20, 2008 2:41 PMHow do I go about changing my Username as I dont want to use the one I have up anymore as Ive come to realise that is a big give away so any help & what steps I need to take to change my username from what I have put up now to something else so people wont know me yr advice would be helpful looking forward to hearing fr you soon thanks Ann Posted by: Anne Lewis at October 25, 2008 1:55 AMmy sister has changed my password and security question please can you help me with this you can e-mail me at cwats@live.co.uk thanks Posted by: craig watson at October 27, 2008 8:37 AMCOULD YOU TELL ME HOW ARE YOU MENT TO ACCESS YOUR MSN E-MAIL TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU CANT SIGN IN BECAUSE YOU HAVE FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD AND THATS WHY IM RESETTING IT Posted by: SUE at November 9, 2008 10:00 AMhow can i change my info password and ? on hotmail Posted by: MEL at November 23, 2008 10:44 AMi dont rember my passward Posted by: janet at November 29, 2008 2:42 PMplz can u help me to find out how to change my password because people keep hacking my password without my permission plz dave help me tell me how to change it kind regards samiro i changed my hotmail password but didnt update my secret question or anything that may remind me of my new password for my hotmail account. The account is very important for me and now ive forgotton my password i cant access it at all. Is there any way of retrieving my password? Posted by: Andy at December 8, 2008 8:03 AMi need to change my password because people hack into mt msn Posted by: elizbeth at December 19, 2008 8:10 AMi want to change my password Posted by: sergio at December 20, 2008 1:51 PMi like to change my password,please help Posted by: tatjana at December 22, 2008 7:29 AMI've changed my password before but this time my page does not have the options to click on. Somebody keeps sending my contacts a link that i'm not approving. Please help me change my password fast!!!! Posted by: Beatriz at December 29, 2008 9:23 AMhello,can u help me coz someone is hacking my acount and i need to change my password and i dont no how to plz plz plz help me emanuel Posted by: emanuel at December 30, 2008 10:17 AMClick profile then near the top right corner there is the word 'options' click on it then go 'more options' then there is a reset your password sign. Posted by: Magic at January 5, 2009 2:33 AMHi, much like the other comments on here, I think I got a virus that reset my password to get into hotmail. I didn't set up a secret question and do not have an alternative e-mail, so when I try to reset my password, hotmail send the link to my e-mail that I can't access. Please help, all my contacts and info are held at this e-mail address that I have had for years. Is there someone at hotmail that I can contact to help with this? Any info appreciated! Posted by: Tam at January 5, 2009 12:09 PMmy friend has had her msn account hacked and they have changed her password so she cannot get into her emails and all her work emails go to there can you please help us by telling us how to change her passsword even though she doesnt know the one that they have changed thank you ben Posted by: Benjamin at January 14, 2009 6:18 AMforgot my password &secret question answer for msn cant get any joy from msn. how do i get straightened out? i am a retired person who does not know their way round a computor. i live in Cyprus Posted by: bill at January 31, 2009 11:59 AMidont know my password I am having problems with my MSN hotmail acct. I can log in but I can't open my mail box. I keep getting a prompt that the requested URL could not be retrieved. Can this be fixed or would I be better to open up an account again and if I did that would I lose my present mail? Hope that you can help me. Both my laptop and pc use vista and this problem only started on the weekend. Posted by: Larry Lyonnais at February 2, 2009 6:26 PMi am from afghanistan and i realy like to chat from hotmail but it is not posibble plz help me I would like to change my msn password, please could you send me the page link where i can do this. Thanks Posted by: Nicola at February 19, 2009 9:08 AMThis is rubbish it dont tell you how to change ypur password I NEED TO CHANGE MY PASSWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: beth at February 19, 2009 11:37 AMsir, I cant reset my 10yr old hotmail password! I forgot the password but when I try to reset it, it doesn't give me the option to use a test question or the option to use an alternative email...the instructions are sent to the same email i cant into....please help!! Posted by: Mo at March 8, 2009 2:36 PMhi dave, i have 3 e-mail account this is the only one i can access. i suppose i could say iv been locked out of my other accounts, my passwords, secret questions and everything are drifferent... i need to change my password somebody is hacking my account PLZ PLZ tell me how to get a new pasword. Posted by: lewis at March 15, 2009 9:00 AMHi Dave I forgot my password and did go to the reset password option, my pass word was reset BUT since I cannot open my hotmail account how can i get my new password, please help as there is some urgent email in my in box. You could reply me on aneelakilledar@yahoo.com I have also tried the secret question thing for password reset and I have forgotten it too. Please assist. Best regards Posted by: Aneela at March 15, 2009 10:46 PMPlease help:I forgot my password and secret question nor i gave an alternative email address while Signing up...and i really very badly need this account..it will be thankful if u could help me... and whn i tried logging in it tells me all the information which i gave was wrong..if u can send me my password recovery page link to my yazhini.samuel@gmail.com this id it would be big help. kindly do the needful...... Posted by: Yazhini at March 17, 2009 2:37 AMI forgot my password and requested to set up a new one through computer address and secret question. Now I can not stop it from automatically signing in. I want to stop my hotmail account from signing up automatically. Please help. Posted by: NOLA at March 25, 2009 8:32 PMI also need a password recovery page as my hotmail locked me out and told me all my info is wrong. Plus, my alternate email is out of service, so i cant check that... Posted by: alec at March 26, 2009 10:11 AMmy gf is changing my password wenever she wants... i dont knw how she is doin dis... nyway i need a software in which i can give my orginal password and if it canges it shoud provide me d new password with a mail... is der a software lyk dat??? if ny1 knws pls mail me in youngster_999@hotmail.com Posted by: annana at March 30, 2009 12:18 PMhello, i can no longer get into my account, and i dont remember my secret question, can you please help me get my account back, you can email me to arsenaultdebbie@hotmail.com. my account is justin_lanctin@hotmail.com. thank you Posted by: Justin Lanctin at April 4, 2009 12:17 PMi have a hotmail id i just forgot my password, i didn't know the secret question also, so please help me I Can't Change My Password But I Want To Coz I Got A Virus And It Keeps Sending Porn To Other People On My Account And Its Really Annoying !! Lool Posted by: Chloe at April 23, 2009 9:28 AMHi Dave! uum wats URL 4?????????????????? Posted by: sean gallagher at May 10, 2009 11:05 AMI need a new password since I forgot my old one with my hotmail email address. Posted by: Sarah Johnson at May 15, 2009 12:55 PMi have to change my password I HATE THIS FRICKEN THING !!!! Hi.i hoep u can help me..I have another hotmail account..n_p4t3l@live.co.uk..for which i have forgotten my password and secret answer..they have sent me password reset info. to the email address i ahve forgetten the password for!! is there any way of getting that info. I can't remember which alternate email address I used but it isn;t for any of the accounts I use now. Thankyou I use msn windows messenger when i was at my last job. i only had one email set to that account which was my work email...i no longer have access to that email. when i request a password change it sends it to that email address. how can i have the new password sent to my personal email address? Posted by: thomas at June 7, 2009 6:07 AMi need to change my msn hotmail Dear Dave, I forgot my password on hotmail. I looked online for a solution, and one of them were to answer a secret question. But when I went to hotmail.com and clicked forgot password, they didn't give me an option to answer my secret question. It only gave me the options to send it to the email I used, or an alternate email, which I can't remember. Is there any way I can answer my secret question? Posted by: Jin at June 26, 2009 5:13 PMhey dave i want to change my password because same knows my password Posted by: mahnoor at August 15, 2009 8:21 AMI've had an MSN Hotmail account for a while and have suddenly become paranoid that I might have had my password intercepted by a key sniffer. How do I change my password in Hotmail? Posted by: enxhi at August 31, 2009 7:32 PMI have a msn hotmail accountand have forgottenthe password. Can you help me? 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