Hotmail Upgrade

The Insider

Follow the instructions below to upgrade your Hotmail email to the bigger inbox size, I just did and it worked a treat, did not loose any emails or contacts...

Either print this off, or else open a new window with hotmail in it as well.



1:Log in to hotmail and go into 'Options'

2:Go to the submenu "my profile' and choose from the
dropdown-menu/fill in the following:

Country: United States
State: Florida
Zipcode: 33332

(make sure the birthdate is set to a date/year which indicates thatyou are older than 13!!)

3:Save the information and go back to the 'Options' screen

4:Go to the 'Language' submenu

5:Change the language to 'English' and save that information

6:Click on this link or else paste it into the address bar and clickon "go"

http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/accountclose

If that didn't work try this

http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com...in/Accountclose

or this

http://memberservices.passport.net/...ice.srf?lc%2043

and press 'Continue' until you arrive to the 'Close Accounts' screen

ATTN Backup your e-mails and/or addresses just to be sure!!

7:Now press 'Close Account' (your account will NOT be lost!! Read the
following steps if you don't believe me )

8:Now go back to hotmail.com and log in with your old e-mail address and password

9:Now you will get a message that your 'Reserved Account' has been activated.

DONE!

Your 'Inbox' is now 25mb instead of the former 2mb or the 250mb I promised you.

If all went right, your e-mails and addresses will all still bethere!

But why 25mb you ask?

You get an e-mail from hotmail.com:

Quote:

You may notice that your storage meter for your e-mail inbox only says

25 MB instead of 250 MB. Please allow us at least 30 days for us to
bump up your storage to the complete 250 MB.**** It is important to
check your inbox regularly during this time.

This means that you'll have an account for 25mb (still a lot more
that

2, right?!) for about 30 days. Microsoft will bump it up to 250mb
after that!


10: Make sure you'll keep the language, country, etc. settings as they
are now.

After /Microsoft/hotmail bumps the 25mb to 250mb, you can change
everything back to as it was (the language you prefer!).

jozi

There's already a thread about this.

Jozi

Jaeger

Indeed, it's one of the longest threads in the Computers forum. Must be on page 2 or 3 by now. Cheers for the heads-up but you're 3 weeks too late in posting