#Recover Old Hotmail account

[spider-xan]

It's wild how simultaneously precarious and protected digital information is bc on the one hand, it's amazing that my deviantArt account from the early 2000s is still around, and a lot of digital art that would otherwise have been lost when that computer died - except there is definitely artwork that should be there that's missing, and I know either bc I know I had it uploaded or there are dead links in existing posts!

Likewise, my high school and undergrad LJ still exists! Unfortunately, I friend-locked every entry, and even though I remember my password, LJ apparently forces you to get a new password if it's too old - except the original Hotmail account it's linked to is long gone, and while I was able to re-create the exact e-mail address months ago to recover an old Gmail account, Microsoft locked me out for no reason, so I can't use it to unlock my old LJ - but all of the data and text for my entries are still there!

[thehelpus]

How Do I Recover My Old Hotmail Account ?

Hotmail is a service that has been operating online for years and many users made their account in it. Due to some reasons, they are unable to access that for a very long time leading to their deactivation. They want to reactivate their account but are unable due to the lack of recovery knowledge.

Recover Hotmail Account Via Phone

You can easily recover your account by using the linked phone number. This method consists of the official steps which you can use.

Go to the official Hotmail account login page and select the forgot password option.

Visit the account recovery section by using the registered phone number and get the verification code.

Obtain the code and enter it in the required field to verify your identity by creating a new password and taking your account out of deactivation mode.

Recover Hotmail Account Via Support

You can also recover the ownership of your deactivated account by contacting its customer support. They help you to Reactivate Old Hotmail Account the authorization of your account and enable you to use that properly. This support is well-trained in resolving the technical issues and available 24/7 to provide help.

Dial the Hotmail support official phone number and follow the commands of the IVR.

Contact support and talk to its live person to ask about the account recovery.

Provide all the details and use its assistance to reactivate your account completely.

Now, you can easily recover your account from a deactivated state by using the above methods. If you are still facing any problem to Recover Old Hotmail account, contact its customer support. You need to ask them questions related to reactivation issues and gain valuable information from them which you can use to recover your account.

[gccexchange]

How to Recover Microsoft Outlook Email Account?

How to Recover Microsoft Outlook Email Account?

Have you mistakenly erased email from Microsoft Outlook? You may have forever erased emails in Microsoft Outlook and need to recover them. Recovering an email account is possible, No compelling reason to stress you. Microsoft Outlook is an email application that coordinates email messages, plans for the day, contacts, errands, and planning.

It comes as a piece of Microsoft Office suite. It…

[orriculum]

God I just had to go back to my old hotmail account from 10 years ago to recover a password and the security question was "what is your favorite food" and I'm like jesus who knows that could be anything until I realized I had made that email during my naruto phase and it could only be one thing

[sporeblossom]

i lost my password to my ancient hotmail account and im so fucking tired of microsoft support not letting me recover it despite all the information i can provide it fucking sucks!! i just it to get access to a couple of old games and that's it!!!

[suppuration]

I need some help with something.

I have a very old YT account. I am 99% sure that I created it before Google bought the site, and thus there wasn’t a Gmail login for it. The email address is one which no longer exists (it’s a Hotmail and it’s one of the ones that got eaten by that email worm back in like. 2011).

How do I recover that account, if there’s no Google login to recover, and all I have is the username for the channel?

I’m having trouble, ‘cause I remember being able to log into it sometime last year honestly.

Edit: I found the gaia_link page for the brand account link-up, but none of the passwords I’m trying are working. *hands in face*

[public-insecurities]

Security Everywhere: Blogger!

How to Delete an Old Blog on Blogger

Back in the day... my friends and I decided to form a cover group. We made a blog dedicated to it. However, I forgot that it existed and roughtly 8 years later, I was reminded of its existence after I did a Google search of my own name. Immediately, I tried to delete the blog. One problem - I don't remember the password to the email used for the account.

Recovering the E-mail

Without the e-mail, I'm unable to take down the blog account, so I decided that it may be worthwhile to try log onto the e-mail and choose "Forgot password." However, this presented another problem... the e-mail did not exist. Turns out, hotmail deletes e-mails that are inactive for 6 years.

Making a New E-mail

At this point, I was quite frustrated. But something popped into my head... What if I made a new e-mail with the same handle as the e-mail I used for the blog?

That's exactly what I did and BAM I was in. The blog was automatically linked to the new e-mail I had created and I was able to delete the blog. Unfortunately, it remains on Google searches so I will just have to wait for it to disappear.

TLDR: If the e-mail you used to create a Blogger account was deleted, just make a new one and you'll gain full access to the account associated with that e-mail.

[jayce-space]

I'm debating if I should just sell my Xbox... Like it's a lost cause.

Years ago my hotmail was hacked and I'm assuming misused and hard blocked (cannot prove I'm me to their standards and they refuse to send me a varify code to the phone number attached). I used this email for my Xbox, ps3, and steam at the time.

Steam: I contacted them and explained my email was compromised and wanted to change it. They asked a few questions like what credit card was used, what was the last game I bought on disk for that account. I was able to answer and they happily changed my email and password. I just had a payment block for a few months so that I couldn't steal anything if I did lie. The only annoying part was it was by email and there was 3 days between each. So it was slow but worked out.

Sony: Contacted them presenting the same. They asked for the serial number on both my ps3 and vita to make sure that's what was registered to my account and confirmed the last 4 digits of my card. I was able to provide that and they changed my information without a fuss. Probably the smoothest support I've ever had and was done in 30 minutes max.

Microsoft: I presented the same case. They asked me to log onto the email I was trying to recover. I explained that I can't and that's why I need to change the information. They asked me to go through password reset, once again if I could just do that I wouldn't be here. They sent me the prove you're you form. I filled it out using my old cellphone that kept the last few emails and skype stuff on it. It was as accurate as it could be. I was told that wasn't sufficient proof and then they really blocked the account and hung up on me. I called back asking if I could just transfer my games to a new account and use my card and serial numbers as proof. Nope, they can't help and essentially hung up again. Still trying to this day...

I still have my Xbox and games. I can't really play it though. I can play my disk games but all my digital games and achievements are gone. I can't access online due to them freezing my account. I'm just done with them... I like the games, but don't want to start over. It's just annoying. I had better experience with Nintendo in the past too (called and they were able to talk me through manually repairing my Gamecube with no hoops needing to be jumped through). Why does Microsoft have to have a stick up their ass and fingers in their ears...?

[woluf]

I’m trying to get access to my old flickr account, one I’ve had since 2007, but yahoo is dragging me around in circles cause their system to recover passwords is useless! I don’t have access to the hotmail I account I signed up 11 years ago or the phone number I had 5 years ago lmao

[kaoarika]

Silly stuff that happened this past friday because I went for a rabbithole. And it STIll keeps going...

The story goes that all I wanted to do was timeshifting some livestream from Nicovideo, but since the platform from time to time logs me out (since I barely use the platform these days: I am only “subscribed” to a program there, since everything I used it for already finished and so and so, or moved to Youtube) I had to login once more.

Thing is, I suspect this past month they have been doing lots of changes to their platform (including moving livestreaming timeshifts to the main nicovideo dashboard and so and so), they also started to implement a new 2-steps-login system where they send you a code to the email you registered your account to verify it is you.

For my luck, Nicovideo was still one of the last few platforms where I still used my old mail account that I barely visit these days because all I get these days there is mostly notifications from fb (and I wish it wasn’t like that, but fb is a weird entity and I hate it). I always do some cleaning each 5 or 6 months, whenever I feel like it, because, again, I barely use it. I WISH I could do smth more with it, but gmail feels more comfortable than whatever the hell Outlook/Hotmail tried to do with it being some kind of gmail clone in the past decade (wish I could say “desktop Outlook”, but, in my almost 20 years of being online, I never used it).

So, yeah... I decided to clean the few hundred notifications I have there from fb. One email notification I checked, however, comes from Google because of my old YT account (this is from a time before Google came and bought YT, before gmail was widely used and became the defacto google account to everything they own these days, and you could register any mail account to get a YT account). It basically went “hey, someone knows about your pw, we took some steps forward and do some security stuff... why don’t you login to do appropiate changes and the like?”. And I was “well, sure... I guess? I have been changing my pw of EVERYTHING, just in case, due to a data breach that happened last year and wanted to be secure”. 

Two things i also got from this was: one, this was a mail I received last September. Oh shoot. The other was: wait... what was my old YT account’s pw again?

I have an habit of writing down all my pws since I was younger. And I had a bad practice where I wrote pws of everything in scattered notebook pages, post-its, etc. (these days I HAVE to write down the date I started to use those, in ONE PLACE, but this habit wasn’t 100% foolproof, since there were times I wasn’t even sure for WHERE I USED ONE OF THESE). In my teenage years, all my pws were simple and, frankly, quite insecure. I also kinda used them ALL for EVERYTHING. But as years came by I started changing them, being more meticulously vague with characters used there, and the like. But last year it was when a data breach happened that I REALLY got scared because hindsight is never 20/20, so I started to change EVERYTHING. I think 95% of the stuff I have registered and so and so nowadays use a different pw these days. The other 5% are probably sites that I have forgotten, “do I even care?”, and platforms that no longer exist. Or perhaps pw I have lost with time and doing the whole “recover pw” thing is useless.

My old YT fits a little with that 5%, tbh. I no longer use it, It’s over a decade old (I think last time I really used it was 2010 or 2010... barely before I started to use a gmail account). From what I remember, almost every video on my “favorites” doesn’t longer exist - either the uploader got deactivated for obvious YT reasons, or the videos were privated. So... what gives, right? “I don’t think I still have access to it...”

Or DOES IT?

And then... I went through the rabbithole. A very annoying one, at that. Did I want to give it up? No. I’m very obsessive and persistent, because I didn’t want to lose it.

So, I decided to look if I had a pw that I should have changed it to. Thing is, the first few times I tried it out... I found out the pw was from a different account. A fail from my part.

I then vaguely remembered that I *recently* logged into it, because I DO recall looking through my list of favorite videos. But,  it depends what this “recently” means... could have been a year... 2 or 3 years ago (it doesn’t help considering the last two years of the pandemic and time has been quite weird since). So, did I change the pw? Did I use my old pw?

I looked through my old notebook that I used to base which platforms I NEEDED to change my pws last year... and strangely, “YT (original account)” was scribbled. Did I consider it a loss back then? So, I went back and forth with older notebooks.

I spent two hours on it, trying and logging with different pw variants I COULD have changed it to. I even checked if it was possible I changed my pw, because, I guess, Google does send you a notification about you changing a pw... but I didn’t have one of these, either. So... it was possible it was my old pw all around?

Another issue was that, like I said, my old pws were simpletons and MAYBE I could have used a different character, and I could have missed it, but my memory is foggy about it. I don’t rememeber how many times I TRIED logging in, all I do remember is how many times I as cycled back into captcha (and me trying to guess what the hell they were spelling for a word to verify me).

And to make matters worse, Google doesn’t really protect me to check another way to verify it was me: the “other method” is basically remembering what was the last pw I used. “WELL, I wouldn’t be here if I remembered what it WAS, right???”

And then, by 6 AM of that Friday, I finally got it. Maybe. Because of that one single character variant, and I was already too tired that I was all did i typed it correctly?”. All i knew is that it FINALLY sent me a verification to my email, and FINALLY I could be sent that sweet, sweet txt message to my phone.

Only to, right after it, receive another message that I couldn’t gain access due to MANY login attempts. “We have blocked you access due to many login attempts, try a few hours later :)” Okay, cool, I could try a couple of hours later.

And then I tried one hour later: ”Oops, try a few hours later.”

Three hours later: “”Try a few hours later”.

Okay, understandable, I guess I TRIED to login too many times, I will rest it here and try... well, later.

Almost 48 later: “Try a few hours later.”

Wait, it’s been TWO DAYS and you haven’t unblock me...??!

ALMOST FIVE DAYS LATER (a hour before I started writing this): “TRY A FEW HOURS LATER”.

Like... GOOGLE, IT’S BEEN FIVE DAYS. WHAT THE ACTUAL FREAKING HELL? HOW MANY “FAILED ATTEMPTS” IS THIS PUNISHMENT GARBAGE? HOW MUCH TIME IT MEANS “FEW HOURS LATER” FOR THIS PUNISHMENT?!

AGGGGGHHHHH.

UGH, ALL I want to is finally change the pw and regain access to it, nothing more, nothing less. But google doesn’t give me an option besides “try accessing from another device”, which is also incredibly useless.

It’s INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. It’s going to be a week in less of two days and this is baffling? For an old account I barely use? Where I made the HUGE mistake of going for a dumb pw and I completely forgot WHAT IT WAS?!

I’m freaking tired and I’m trying to get into it 24 or 48 later. I guess, to give google time to cool it down, but NOPE, it’s been almost 120 hours SINCE it give me that message of “we blocked some attempts of ppl accessing to this account” and it’s completely baffling??? Because I’m pretty sure af it was ALL ME? BECAUSE OF A PRETTY DUMB “Well, type the last pw you remember using” too???! FREAKING HELL...  I HATE THIS.

[leonidas1754]

GUESS WHO LOST ACCESS TO THEIR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT

Well, I reset my computer to try and combat some issues with it and have been re-logging into various accounts when I get to my email for my YouTube account and- I can’t get in. Alright, maybe I forgot my password, I’ll just try to recover it-

Except the fucking thing isn’t working. I put in the old password, the recovery email is one that isn’t mine (a hotmail account which I’ve never used) and it gives me a chance to put in a familiar email, so I put one in connected to the account, and they say they can’t verify it’s mine. (No other recovery questions, NOTHING.)

So yea. And since there’s literally no other way to contact, I’m shit out of luck and doing everything within my self control not to scream. I put up something on the forum, but it seems a fuckton of people are having the same issue as me. What the hell, Google.

[thehelpus]

How to access my old Hotmail Account?

If you are wondering regarding the recovery of your old Hotmail account, then you have come to the exact right place. Here in this paper, we are about to share the things that are going to help with your Hotmail account access. So without any further ado, let us get straight into this.

Hotmail which has now gained fame as Outlook is a Microsoft product and in order to regain access to your Hotmail account, the users are required to first create an alternate outlook email address so that you are able to receive important updates that are required to get access to your old Microsoft account.

New account creation is a simple process and doesn't require much work. You just need to provide the necessary details that are mandatory in order to create your email account with Outlook/Hotmail.

Once you have created a new account for yourself, you then need to follow the steps that are mentioned below to be able to Recover old Hotmail account. Perform the steps mentioned below under and you will be good to go.

First and foremost, the users are required to visit the following link that is www.account.live.com/acsr.

Here, you will be asked to provide details regarding your Hotmail Account credentials that you are trying to recover.

Enter your Hotmail email address followed by the phone number.

Along with this, the users are also required to provide the username that was associated with their Hotmail account.

Once you have entered the details for the Hotmail Account which you are interested to recover, you will now be asked to provide details regarding an alternate account so that Microsoft would be able to send the data there so that you will be able to recover your Hotmail account.

Enter the Captcha code and you will be redirected to yet another page.

Follow the on-screen instructions and then you will be good to go.

This would finally reactivate old Hotmail account.