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Outlook.com is an email portal by Microsoft which also lets you manage your contacts, tasks, and calendar. It is one of the world's first webmail services, founded in 1996 as Hotmail by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for an estimated $400 million in 1997 and with time Microsoft launched a couple of versions of it. In 2013 Outlook.com replaced Hotmail.
Outlook accounts are also protected with the help of passwords. Passwords are to secure the account information and one should not forget that. In case you forgot Microsoft Outlook password you may follow the below mentioned instructions to reset it. It can also be done by contacting Microsoft, but it is very easy to do it yourself.
- Go to Outlook.com . Click on the option “I forgot my password”.
- Click on the option “Reset your password”. You will be redirected to a page where you can reset your account password.
- Provide your email address. Enter the characters which are shown in the picture.
- Click on the button “Next”.
- There will be two options to reset the password. “Email me a rest link” and “Send a code to my phone”.
To recover Outlook account password you can select only one option from the two. You may select the first option if you would like to receive a “password reset link” to another email address that you have provided during the registration or you can select the other option {Send a code to my phone] and click on the button “Send code” if you have linked your phone number with your Outlook account. You will receive a code from Microsoft to your phone in case you select the second option.
Reset Microsoft Outlook Password By Recovery Email.
- Get into your email address.
- Click on the reset link.
- You will be redirected to password reset page.
- Type a new desired password.
- Re-type your new password to confirm.
- Click the button “Next”
- Your password is changed now.
Reset Microsoft Outlook Password By Recovery Phone Number.
- Open the code that you have received from Microsoft in your phone.
- Type the code in “Enter your code” box
- Click on the button “Submit”
- It will take you to a page where you can reset your password.
- Choose and type a new desired password.
- Re-type the new password.
- Click on the button “Next”
- Your new password is active now.
Now you can add or update your alternate email, phone number, and set the security question. This information gets stored by Microsoft to keep your account secure and for future assistance in recovering lost or forgotten passwords.\
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