A simple procedure for discontinuing your Hotmail / Live mail account..
Wandering around at some PC forums , i saw that many people are concerned about how to delete MSN Hotmail accounts (now Live Mail).
A few caveats before you decide to delete your Live mail account:
- The MSN account is also commonly used as a Microsoft Passport, which grant you access to Live Messenger, MSDN (if you are a developer), newsgroups and communities etc’.
- If you close your account, someone can potentially open a new account with the same name, thus actually taking over your email identity.
- Before you go on and delete your MSN account, grab your list of contacts and update them that your MSN email address won’t be active any more (remember, mail might reach your MSN account without you be able to read them). Don’t forget to update them about your new email address.
There are two ways to terminate your account:
- Delete the MSN account:
- Click Help on any Hotmail page.
- Type Close Account in the keyword search section of the Help screen.
- Click the Close Your Hotmail Account tip within the Help screen.
- Click the Close Account link that is highlighted in blue.
- Click Close Account
- Inactivate your MSN account: In this case all you need to do is stop using Hotmail. After 30 days your MSN account becomes inactive, and after 90 days the passport becomes inactive as well.
My recommendation to you is to choose the second way. I believe that the potential risk of having someone taking over your account and ruining your online reputation is too high to overlook.
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this is very good and very helpful, but i’m still confused about something. After you delete your or “close” your hotmail account, you can no longer receive emails on that account, right? and when anyone tries to it just says “it could not be sent to so and so hotmail…blah blah”….well you can STILL sign on your MSN MESSENGER with that account email and password…how can I delete the account so it doesn’t exist at all! Meaning it doesn’t exist for my hotmail ..so no one can send me emails and I can’t use it to sign in either…how???
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can you PLEASE PLEASE email me and tell me how?
i dont wish to receieve any more mails to my address ponysam003@yahoo.com.in hence i wish to close the account with immediare effect thks.
im trying to delete my msn account.
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im trying to delete my msn account.
wht is a hotmail page?
I want my msn account gone and when i tryed to delete it the only thing that is deleted is my hotmail ..i want it all gone , I have a new account and dont’t want anything from the old one …no emails or messages … Please how do I get rid of all of it !???
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hi i need your help pls. how can i deactivate the link or to run my friendster on my computer temporarily? coz this is my personal computer and theres alot of bussiness transaction here and my cousin keep on using it just to open her friendster and she is giving ne a hard time looking and cleaning my table after she used it. i appreciate your help, thanks alot.
Thank you for sharing this with all the people. I,did not know
about the 30 day disconection on msn or hotmail accounts.Some one can get into your acount like that.
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i want to delete my msn
I left MSN because my delete button would not function. I would like to transfer my address book to yahoo, but apparently my password is no longer acceptable. Please advise.
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i am trying to delete my WHOLE account but i cant even find the right link to click on!! please help me!!
how do you delete the actual msn messenger program, if i delete it from the desktop it goes to the recycle bin and stays there but you cant delete it from there and it still pops up every single time i log in, its so annoying!!! please e-mail me if you REALLY know how to do it at jjrthejake@hotmail.com ty
there is no help button on my hotmail pages, none of them :/
would like my msn email deleted please
how do i forward all my old messages to a new hotmail account. i don’t want to forward one by one because it takes too long.
hello u have clear intruction but i cant find close your acount link can u plz help!
how do i delete my msn please help me as none of the help button work they go around in circle
want to delete my account completely
Can you help me to delete account hotmail I don’t want use any more
Thank