How to Change Personal Options in Hotmail
Follow these steps to change your personal options in Hotmail. You can change your profile, password, secret question, language email is viewed in, zip code for weather information, and the length of time that each of your Hotmail sessions lasts.
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Instructions
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Go into your Hotmail account. Sign in by putting in your email address and password. Click "Options" in the upper right hand corner of your screen once in your account. Click on the first link to the left side of the page entitled "Personal."
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Update your profile by clicking "My Profile," which is the first link listed under "Personal Options." You will have to retype your password on this page in order to change your profile information. Click "Save" once you've completed your changes.
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Click "Password" on the "Personal Options" page to change your password. Click "Change," type in your current password, type the password you would like to change it to and then retype your new password. If you forgot your old password, click "Forgot your password?" to have information emailed to you so you can reclaim it.
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Change your secret question by clicking on "Secret Question" on the "Personal Options" page. Click on "Change" next to your question and a screen will appear asking for your password and a new question. Click "Save" to save your changes.
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Click "Language" on the "Personal Options" page to change the language you would like Hotmail to be written in. After doing this, a page will appear where you can choose whatever language you would like. Click "OK" to save the changes.
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Click "Weather" on the "Personal Options" page to change the zip code on your profile, which gives you the weather for your area.
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Change the amount of time your Hotmail session will last before it automatically signs you out by clicking "Session Expiration" on the "Personal Options" page. You will have four timeframes to choose from: 2 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours or 24 hours. Click "OK."
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Tips & Warnings
After making a change, click "Hotmail" in the upper left hand corner to return to the "Personal Options" page.
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Comments
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it's not working to change the language after being hacked in arabic.
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If I need to make a change to the language since someone has hijacked my account and changed it to Arabic, there is no way to follow these instructions since the language on the screen and in all the drop down boxes in unreadable. How do you change the language setting to English when it is in a foreign language you cannot understand?
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maxameduk
Oct 01, 2008
maxameduk
