By Sophia | Last Updated
Hotmail is one of the most popular free web-based email services, which everyone can use to build up the connection with friends or business partners. Yes, with the account and password, you can access Hotmail no matter where you are. But what if you forgot the email password? How to recover Hotmail account password? Here, we will show you how to retrieve forgotten password for Hotmail account.
The email service developer has took this situation into consideration so that it offers you the solution to reset the forgotten Hotmail account.
Step 1: Go to Outlook.com and click the Sign in button. Then enter your Hotmail account and click Next.
Step 2: In the sign in window, you can click Forgot my password button and it will ask you to enter your Hotmail account. After that, click Next.
Step 3: It needs to identify your identity. Yes, you are offered two options here.
Option 1: you can get the security code from the connected phone and enter the last 4 digits of phone number and click Get Code.
Then you can get the code on your phone and enter it in the following box and click Next. After that, you can reset your password now.
Option 2: If you cannot get the phone to receive the code, you can click I don't have any of these.
Then you will get new window to enter the Hotmail account, another email address and the character you see. If you do not have another email address, you can create a new one with outlook.com now. Click Next to continue.
Enter the code you get and click Verify.
Answer the security questions and if you do not know the answer, try your best guess. Then, click Next. And enter the password you have used before and check the questions as screenshot shows.
Follow the steps to answer the questions until your get this box.
As you can see in the first way, if you did not connect a phone number with the email, the information which you need to validate your Hotmail account ownership is related to too many aspects which we do not take it seriously when we use the account. If we failed in the first way for the insufficient information, what can we do it retrieve password for Hotmail account?
If you have used Hotmail in Microsoft Outlook as the IMAP/POP3 type account and let Microsoft Outlook remember your password, you can use Outlook Email Password Genius to recover the Hotmail password easily.
Step 1: Install Outlook Email Password Genius on your computer. You can download it from iSunshare official website.
Step 2: Open the software and click the Recover button. You will get all used email account and password displayed on the software interface.
Step 3: Click the Save button and save the account details to a text file. After that, you can copy the password to log in web page email account.
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