RestHotmail.png' alt='Hotmail Hacker 2 1' title='Hotmail Hacker 2 1' />1How do I close my Hotmail or Outlook. I need to close my Hotmail account. Im getting too much spam, and besides, I think its been hacked. I just want to close it and stop it from bothering anyone anymore. How do I do that Id actually suggest that you seriously reconsider closing your account. Closing your account will not stop spam that looks like it came from the account hackers often fake the From address whether or not the account exists. No. 2 Hotmail Account Hacker 3. Hotmail Account Hacker 3. September 24, 2013. It is about 0. 39MB and is compatible with. I want to close my Hotmail account is a kneejerk reaction to many account problems. Its easy, and Ill show you how, but it also may be pointless or even harmful. The answer isnt going to be too hopeful, though I do have a few small straws you can grasp at. My old emails have disappeared from my HotmailOutlook. I. Closing your account will not stop your contacts from being bothered if they had even brief access to your contact list, the spammers have probably already made a copy. Closing your account is not guaranteed to cause emails sent to it to bounce back to the sender bounce messages are optional, and many services choose not to send them, to reduce spam. Closing your account may not even be possible if its been hacked, and you dont have access to it yourself. All that being said, if you still want to close it, Ill walk you through the steps its not really that hard. You must be able to log in. You must be able to log in to your account in order to close it. If that were not the case, anyone could close the account. If you want to close your account because you think it has been hacked, or you cant log in to close your account, the article Email Hacked Things You Need to do NOW has the steps that you need to try to take in order to regain access to the account. I have to say try, because once youve lost access to a hacked account, there is no guarantee that you can get it back. Thats one of the costs of using a free email account like Hotmail or Outlook. Even if you dont want it back you just want to close it so the hacker stops using it the steps that you need to take to prove ownership are exactly the same steps that would recover the account. Hotmail Hacker 2 1' title='Hotmail Hacker 2 1' />Thus, if you cant recover the account, you wont be able to prove that you are authorized to close it. Closing the account. Log in to your account via Outlook. Click your account name in the upper right. Via Vt1616 Sound Driver Windows 7. Click the Account settings item. This will transition you to your Microsoft Account account page. On that page, click on Manage advanced security. At this point, you may be asked to confirm that you are the rightful account owner, by entering a code that will be sent to your choice of alternate email address or phone number. Once verified, youll be taken to the Security Settings page. Killing Floor Keygen Sony more. Scroll down to the bottom of that page, and youll find the link that youre looking for. This will take you to a page with information explaining what closing will do, and will likely ask you for your password again, to confirm that you are the rightful owner of the account. Click Next to begin the process. What it means to close your Outlook. Hotmail account. Read the information that is presented on that confirmation screen carefully. Your Outlook. com or Hotmail account is your Microsoft account. When you close this account, you will lose all access to all services associated with it. Youll lose all of your email and contacts. Youll lose all of the entries made in your calendar. Youll lose everything you may have placed in One. Drive. Youll lose access to Office 3. Youll lose access to your XBox Live account, if it uses this Microsoft accounts email address. Youll lose your ability to log in to Skype with this account. You may even lose your ability to log in to your Windows 8 or later PC, if this account is used for that purpose. Make absolutely certain that this is what you want to do before you do it. Alternatives to closing. If you cant login to your account, and your attempts to recover access have failed there is nothing you can do. The account is no longer yours. If someone else has access to it, then they are they new account owner, and they can do anything they want with it. Thats simply the grim reality. If no one else has access to it, then the account will eventually eventually be deleted for inactivity. How long eventually is varies, but its often somewhere between three months and a year. If youve regained access, or you need to keep the account open because you use other Microsoft services with that account, then you have two options Ignore email on this account completely and use it only for those other services. I dont recommend this approach, because its very likely that you will get important notifications via email for those other services. If you ignore email, you will miss those. What I recommend you do instead is to secure your account following the instructions in Email Hacked Things You Need to do NOW , and then start managing your spam, by simply marking anything that is spam as spam or junk. Eventually the email system will learn what is and is not spam to you, and route it to the spam folder automatically. This is an update to an article originally posted January 2. Download right click, Save As Duration 5 4. MBSubscribe Apple Podcasts Android RSS.