Have you recently created an account with Hotmail? It is recommended to keep your password information at a safe place. However, as you keep on creating accounts with other email service providers, shopping portals and variety of other websites, it becomes difficult to preserve these passwords in the memory. Hotmail is one good service provider, which allows you to retrieve your lost password for making a login. Here are the steps to help you move out of the situation.
Step 1: Open the Hotmail page and click to navigate to the email login page. Here, you can easily find the link saying ‘Forgot Password’. Follow this link to look for the solution on the next page.
Step 2: You will be offered with two different solutions, as mentioned below:
Verify Information and Reset Password Online
Send Reset Instructions to my Email Address
Click on the option according to your need.
Step 3: If you choose the first option, you will be required to provide the information you submitted at the time of creating the account. This would include country, state, zip code and most importantly, the answer to the secret question.
Step 4: Once the information is verified to match with that stored in the database, you are allowed to reset your password.
Step 5: In case you don’t remember the answer to the secret question, you are left with second option mentioned in Step 2.
Step 6: As soon as you click on the second option, the password reset instructions are sent within seconds to the alternative email address provided by you. So, it is important to have an alternative email account to handle such situations.
Step 7: Check your email account and open the mail to follow the reset instructions.
It is recommended to choose an easy-to-remember but hard-to-guess password while resetting the Hotmail password.