How to Recover your Hotmail Account Password
When you have forgotten your Hotmail account password, you cannot sign in to your Microsoft Hotmail account. The first thing occurs to your mind is to recover the Hotmail account password. In the Part-1, we will walk you through the steps to recover Hotmail account password by the support of the Microsoft account security tool online.
However, without any detail about your Hotmail account (including the email address, phone number, or Skype ID you used when you made your Microsoft Hotmail account), it's hardly possible to recover the lost Hotmail account password. But there is a certain useful way to retrieve the forgotten password of the Hotmail account if you ever added the Hotmail account you want to recover on your local MS Outlook. If you ever did, skip to Part-2 for the answer.
- Guide Steps:
- Part 1: Recover Hotmail account password online
- Part 2: Retrieve forgotten password for Hotmail account offline
Part 1: Recover Hotmail account password online
How to recover Hotmail account password depends on what recovery security feature you have ever set to the Hotmail account.
Step 1: Check the link: https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx
Step 2: Enter your Hotmail account, and then click "Next".
Step 3: If you have added an email or phone number to the Hotmail, you can select it as the verification to receive security code for recovering your Hotmail account password and click on "Next". If not, select the "I don't have any of these" and start with Step-7.
Step 4: Verify the email address or phone number and click "Send code" to receive the code.
Step 5: Check your email or text message of the phone and enter the code you receive to the edit box. Then click "Next".
Step 6: Reset a new password to recover your Hotmail account. Then click "Next". By now, your password is changed successfully.
Step 7: If you have no other verification like above things, you need to submit a request to Microsoft account team, letting them check your information about the lost Hotmail account. Fill in the relevant information you remember as much as possible and click "Next". You will get respond within 24 hours. And then follow the instruction or advice they provide.
Part 2: Retrieve forgotten password for Hotmail account offline
If the lost Hotmail account was added into the local Microsoft Outlook software, it will be easy enough to recover the password of the Hotmail account. We will use Cocosenor Outlook Email Password Tuner which is a password recovery tool to retrieve the forgotten password of the Hotmail account on Outlook.
Step 1: Download the Outlook Email Password Tuner. Install it to your PC.
Step 2: Launch it, and then click "Recover" button. In a second, all the passwords of the account added into the Outlook are totally recovered and retrieved.
Step 3: Click the "Save" button to save all the recovered information to a local file.
Note: only when you purchase for the full version, can the password (longer than 3 characters) be displayed fully.
