How to Change Your Microsoft Passport Details

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to change your Microsoft passport details. Let's go to our computer and we're going to login to Microsoft's passport service or they call it live ID by opening up our web browser and we're going to go to www.passport.net. Now at this point you're presented with the sign in option, let's click on sign in. So what I'm going to do from here after I clicked sign in is I'm going to type in my credentials for passport and just login here. Now that I'm logged in, it gives me the option to change all of the settings on my account. I could change the credentials that I use such as my email address or my password; I could change the security code that I use on my account and I can also view my unique ID for live. It's also going to allow me to set an alternate email address that's outside of Microsoft's network. Basically just choose the options here that you would like to edit. You can also go to the privacy and security section which allows you as previously to reset my password; I can also report a security issue that I've encountered by using my password and I can look at Microsoft's privacy statement for how they're going to protect my information. I'm just going to go to reset password section to show you for an example how you can change your information. I'm going to click here on change my password; of course it's going to ask me for my existing password. I'm going to type a new one. Now it suggests for passwords that you use a combination of uppercase letters, numbers and some kind of a symbol of some kind and what that's going to do is, that's going to display here a password strength; this one is strong and it's going to tell you basically an indicator of how difficult would that be to crack this password if somebody was to try to figure out what it was. So you want this to show strong and not weak. I would suggest that you have your password expire also, that way, if anybody does happen to get a hold of it, you actually have to reset it every seventy two days. I'm going to click continue; oh and apparently, the password that I was using is too similar to my old password; so I'm going to actually come up with a new one here. It cannot contain words or combination of letters that were in your previous password. Now this is actually asking me to add an alternate email address 'cause I don't have one setup; I'm just going to skip that step and as you can see my password has been changed. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to change your Microsoft passport details."