How to upgrade your Hotmail account to 250MB

Mimikyu · 11-01-2005 10:01pm

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DEmeant0r · 11-01-2005 10:18pm

Nice one el nino, althought I didn't recieve an email from Hotmail telling me that it'll upgrade it to 250mb in thirty days, but 25 is still lots more! Thanks!

briano · 26-01-2005 6:35pm

Legend el nino. You rock.

joe. · 26-01-2005 6:37pm

took a few days but its been upgrades to 250 mb. legend

8bi1ctzegfouva · 26-01-2005 6:51pm

worked like a charm.
cheers

Peteee · 26-01-2005 6:58pm

thanks very much, i use gmail anyway, but this will be way better for spam now!

ASTRACLUB · 26-01-2005 7:07pm

Thanks
Excillent worked for me straight away.
i wonder once they find out they will take away everything back

anyway
just brilliant
AC

snappieT · 26-01-2005 7:11pm

Thank you v. much.

Working for me

DrEvil · 26-01-2005 9:28pm

nice one elnino

Stalfos · 27-01-2005 9:03am

Excellent, Worked like a charm

ElNino · 28-01-2005 2:43am

I just noticed that my account has been upgraded from 25MB to 250MB

j0e · 28-01-2005 3:01am

skywalker wrote:

or you could just change your location to northern ireland and the a/c will be upgraded to 250mb in about a week.

ah i was wondering y the suddenly happened

ASTRACLUB · 28-01-2005 3:20am

Lads

250 MB is now DEFAULT allocation for any new hotmail acount.
Once you check www.hotmail.com read the left hand side indication in the acount login page and you will see the for new hotmail sign up, MS will give the 25MB initially and after one month (may be early) the acount will be top up for 250 MB
so the changing of location and closing acount and then request to re-activate acount is actually OPENING A NEW ACOUNT in VIRTUAL,
The advantage is that you have same id kept.
But i did not mean to put an impact of thread owner ability
Infact that was appreciated and really a good invent and all marks to him for sharin this.
for others ,
see the link

Regards

AC

ASTRACLUB · 28-01-2005 3:33am

Have a look from hotmail webpage

New to MSN Hotmail?
A smarter way to email - FREE!
Feel more secure!
Help keep your inbox free from contamination. With powerful spam filters and thorough virus scanning & cleaning.

Easily connect & share!
Send & receive e-mail from any Web connection. With a huge 250MB inbox* and the ability to send up to 10MB files or photos.

Express yourself!
Have fun personalizing e-mail to friends & family. With unique emoticons, signatures, background choices, fonts & layout styles.

Sign Up
*250MB inbox available only in the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Eligible Hotmail users will first receive 25MB at sign-up. Please allow at least 30 days for activation of your 250MB storage to verify your e-mail account and help prevent abuse. Microsoft Corporation reserves the right to provide 250MB inbox to free Hotmail accounts at its discretion.

secret_squirrel · 01-02-2005 11:14pm

Worked like a charm - you are a star elnino!!

At last a tiny bit of spam doesnt take me over the 2mb limit

MrJoeSoap · 02-02-2005 1:32am

Class, cheers!!!

smorton · 02-02-2005 2:19am

thanks m8

allnight_2002 · 02-02-2005 2:38am

great job. Now have 25mb can;t wait till i get 250mb

Richard Dower · 02-02-2005 6:12am

Worked here also, wicked!

woodyg · 03-02-2005 11:47am

Cheers for that elnino!! worked like a beaut

Man eating cow · 03-02-2005 1:59pm

worked like a charm,
and kept all my address's and emails as well..

cheers mate

Flinty · 03-02-2005 3:10pm

U absolute legend...thanks a mill...I was sick deleting mails coz I was at 'critical'!!

Brilliant

Wanton · 03-02-2005 8:33pm

A1 SHARON!!!

That did this business, cheers.

am i right in reading we can now get up to 10mb in an email?

The Real B-man · 03-02-2005 10:45pm

deadly works grand still cant beat gmail thow

Paddy20 · 04-02-2005 12:28am

Brilliant, great, magico. Worked exactly as you stated

Muchos gracias.

P.

jonny68 · 07-02-2005 2:18pm

worked..cheers.........

yossarin · 07-02-2005 2:30pm

you beauty. nice

DGoose · 07-02-2005 2:57pm

Worked Here too - upgraded to 25mb with no lose of mails. Cheers!!

Anyone try channging their address back? Any benefit in this?

DrEvil · 08-02-2005 12:43am

I got the 250MB sometime this week i think, only noticed it yesterday.
Have changed back my address since then and haven't had any problems

I did notice when I had the florida address the adverts were different.

Paddy20 · 10-02-2005 9:53pm

Same here, I got my full 250mb inbox only a few days after it was upgraded to 25mb. It is great not to be receiving those damned Inbox nearly full warnings , must consider changing my address back as well, after I have finished looking at the new types of adverts!, although I am a bit concerned that the system might catch up with the Ireland location and change the mb allowance back automatically to the measly 2mb ?... :eek:

P.

exiztone · 10-02-2005 10:23pm

Worked perfectly here, cheers!

Infini · 11-02-2005 12:38am

Kick Ass mate!!!

LegacyUser · 11-02-2005 1:18am

thanks a lot that rocks!!!

CrowdedHouse · 11-02-2005 5:09pm

ElNino.........thanks a lot,worked fine (athough had to use IE instead of FF !)

gobby · 14-02-2005 12:32pm

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks a lot...

RicardoSmith · 14-02-2005 8:48pm

Upgrade mine to 25 at the weekend. The 250 upgrade hasn't happened yet. I guess it takes a few days.

Mimikyu · 15-02-2005 11:29am

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seamus · 21-02-2005 7:10pm

Anyone found themselves unable ot log into hotmail today?

I changed my details back to Ireland, then MSN tells me it can't sign in "because of a problem with your .NET passport". So went to the hotmail main page, anytime I tried to log in, it redirected me back to the login screen, with no reason why. Password was definitely correct.

All I saw was a message on the left saying that only users in the US were allowed the 250MB inbox "after verification". So I though, "MSN have twigged our little scam".

Reset my password, bam, I'm in.

Gonna change my details back to the US ones

.

DrEvil · 21-02-2005 11:44pm

I can still log in fine, tried just a min ago.
changed it back to Ireland after i got the 250MB and haven't had any problems

Paddy20 · 21-02-2005 11:48pm

I was concerned about that, as I posted above. However,I covered myself by putting myself down and applying for Google's new GMAIL.COM and got an e-mail about a week ago stating it was now available to me if I wished to register.

I registered out of curiosity and bang ! I now have a new e-mail address with a 1000mb storage allowance

.

Christ I nearly had another cardiac arrest, and Hotmail can go too hell :eek:

P.

RicardoSmith · 22-02-2005 12:09am

I haven't bothered changing back from Florida. Also have a Gmail. Don't like the lack of folders but I'll try it for a while. I like the way it links emails in groups though.

DrEvil · 22-02-2005 12:24am

Also have a Gmail. Don't like the lack of folders

There are folders they are just called 'labels', basically the same thing.

RicardoSmith · 22-02-2005 12:37am

DrEvil wrote:

There are folders they are just called 'labels', basically the same thing.

I don't agree.

seamus · 22-02-2005 9:53am

RicardoSmith wrote:

I don't agree.

Me neither, labels are far superior. You can't sort your hotmail folder based on a search statement.

RicardoSmith · 22-02-2005 12:08pm

seamus wrote:

Me neither, labels are far superior. You can't sort your hotmail folder based on a search statement.

If you have that much mail that you can't organise it in folders and need to create a search statement to fnd stuff then you have other problems. You only need a search statement in Gmail because it doesn't use folders. Its a completely different paradigm. I don't need to search my mail to find things.

Well I do in Gmail...

seamus · 22-02-2005 12:43pm

RicardoSmith wrote:

If you have that much mail that you can't organise it in folders and need to create a search statement to fnd stuff then you have other problems. You only need a search statement in Gmail because it doesn't use folders. Its a completely different paradigm. I don't need to search my mail to find things.

Well I do in Gmail...

I couldn't be arsed deleting mail in Gmail because it's so much hassle.

I'm actually finding this archiving deal handy as it allows me to go waaay back find mails.

RicardoSmith · 22-02-2005 1:22pm

seamus wrote:

I couldn't be arsed deleting mail in Gmail because it's so much hassle.

I'm actually finding this archiving deal handy as it allows me to go waaay back find mails.

Personally I keep an offline store of my emails that I can include in a backup process. I know I can still do this with pop3 access to Gmail. Best practice would be an online store AND a offline store.

seamus · 22-02-2005 1:43pm

RicardoSmith wrote:

Personally I keep an offline store of my emails that I can include in a backup process. I know I can still do this with pop3 access to Gmail. Best practice would be an online store AND a offline store.

Horses for courses I guess.

I've no use for an offline store at all.

RicardoSmith · 22-02-2005 6:50pm

seamus wrote:

Horses for courses I guess.

I've no use for an offline store at all.

...or a backup?

seamus · 22-02-2005 9:58pm

RicardoSmith wrote:

...or a backup?

Nope.

How to upgrade your Hotmail account to 250MB

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