Outlook Express is tagged as a powerful email tool, as it can make email communication faster for you. Amongst all other excellent aspects, Outlook is appreciated for allowing the user to use Hotmail through it. By offering this feature, Outlook Express helps to save valuable time and add convenience to send and retrieve the Hotmail messages. Here is the step-by-step guide to help you add your Hotmail account to Outlook.
Step 1: To begin the procedure, open the Outlook express window and click on the Tools option. Find out the words ‘Email Accounts’ and click them.
Step 2: A small window opens and asks you to choose the option amongst ‘Add a new e-mail account’ or ‘View or change existing e-mail accounts’. Click on the radio button preceding the first option and click Next.
Step 3: In the next window, you can find a number of options like POP3, IMAP, HTTP and so on. For adding the Hotmail account, you need to select the radio button in front of the option called HTTP.
Step 4: Next, you will be asked to enter user information, consisting of you names and the email address. Also, you will be required to fill the logon information in the form of username and password. Enter the Hotmail login information in the textboxes.
Step 5: On the same window, you will be asked to remember the password option. You can check or uncheck the checkbox according to your wish, whether you want the computer to remember your password or not. If there are multiple computer users, it is advised to uncheck this option. Finally, click the Next button.
Step 6: As the procedure completes, you can click on the Finish button to see the Hotmail option in the tree view.
Now, you are ready to conveniently use the Outlook Express to send and view the messages through Hotmail.
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.