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What are some ways of keeping a secondary outlook.com email address active without logging into it. Are there any other ways of keeping it active such as email forwarding?

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Unable to access Outlook.com

I simply cannot believe this situation. I go to log into my Hotmail account which is around 12 years old. I can't get in, it wants me to verify the account??? My backup email address is a lycos.co.uk address that shut do …

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Cannot read message

I cannot read any messages sent from one of my contacts. These messages are being sent to a large group of people. The subject line is always blank or says "no subject". The content is random letters/numbers/symbols. He …

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Account Verification????

I'm setting up a new Outlook.com account for a friend and after putting in her email contacts to notify them, I got a verify account which I did then got another one that requires a mobile # for verification but neither …

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Recover Microsoft Account (Windows LIVE ID)

Greetings to all, I have been having numerous issues with my Microsoft Account together with Xbox LIVE and my Gamertag. In all of my fiddling and "fixing" and speaking to Xbox Support I have deleted my Microsoft Account …

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Pop mail server for RR.com

Did you have a POP mail server like RR.com that worked with windows live mail on windows 8?

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email delays

I seem to be getting a 12 to 24 hour delay receiving emails on my outlook account. It appears to be random with no pattern. Has anyone else seen this.

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Are linked accounts really discontinued in Outlook?

I thought I had read that Microsoft had discontinued linked accounts in June. However recently I have successfully added send-and-receive accounts for Sky, Yahoo and Google to my Outlook.com account. Are send-and-receive …

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Windows Mail

Can anybody tell me WHY I get all these strange markings ( marked in RED) for hyphens, quotation marks, etc., on SOME parts of an e-mail I’m trying to print out, but NOT (marked in BLUE) in others ? These weird a^C~ ‘s m …

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Proper response to my previous simple question

It is now obvious that no human actually reads customer questions but that they are merely computer scanned to pick out key words and on the basis of these are "dealt with" with a standard computer formulated answer We t …

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Not receiving emails

Hello, I have not been able to receive emails for 2 days nows. I have refreshed, logged out and logged back in and checked from other computers as well as my phone. I normally receive at least 50 emails a day, in the las …

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unable to logon to any MS services or reset password

Hi, I started a thread on 19th July because both my and my wife's live account were unavailable and the option to reset passwords was also unavailable. The original thread is here - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win …

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Hotmail/Outlook storage space available

Hello, I've had Hotmail for over 10 years and there are a few things that I have trouble finding information on within my account, especially after the change to Outlook. The first is that I can't find anywhere that tell …

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How do I deactivate my account?

I've been trying to deactivate my account with the steps Microsoft gives me. There's no problem getting to the screen where I can click "deactive your Hotmail account", but from there on I'm stuck. It should direct me to …

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can’t correct DOB on hotmail account with non-US credit card

I editted my DOB and created the "child requiring parent permission" issue with my existing account. I created a new account so I could give myself permission and verify that I am an adult by making the .50$ credit card …

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PROBLEM LOGGING IN OUTLOOK MAIL & RESETTING OF OLD PASSWORD

THIS IS SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN A MONTH THAT I WAS NOT ABLE TO LOGGING MY OUTLOOK MAIL ID, WHICH FORTUNATE I RECENTLY STARTED LIKING IT. MY PASSWORD WAS NOT CHANGED NEITHER COMPROMSED NOR FORGOTTEN, AS I AM ADMINISTRATO …

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