How can I go back to Hotmail from Outlook?

Can I return to the Hotmail account?

How can I go back to Hotmail from Outlook?  a question that many people have done, since a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced the final migration of all Hotmail accounts that were maintained even without upgrading to Outlook mail, although many users remained together to their Hotmail accounts, for better or worse we have to say goodbye to Hotmail forever. But we’ve researched a little more about this.

Since it was released in draft form, to all persons who possessed an email in Hotmail we got an email inviting us to use the previous version of the new email service

Outlook, some persons opted to try it right away (in fact were more than one million who started to using Outlook in its first day of release) but some might expect accustomed at the Hotmail interface and for not know in detail what Outlook has offered.

Go back to Hotmail from Outlook email.

One of the functions used by some persons was the option “back to Hotmail” that was available in the configuration section for all who has decided to test the new Outlook email platform, where we were allowed to return to the old MSN Hotmail interface easily, personally, I made this a couple of times and only took me a few seconds to return to our Hotmail inbox. Now that is a thing of the past as it has been completely removed that option from settings Outlook.com.

Hotmail? … It’s a memory?, Hotmail Calendar??

While it is not possible to return to Hotmail from Outlook mail we still have some memory of the old Hotmail interface in our Outlook inboxes these days, precisely it is the calendar function of Outlook, or we should say even Hotmail calendar because it is almost the last thing that will be left with the appearance of Hotmail and we can check directly to enter from the smart bar higher Outlook.com inbox by clicking on calendar. Maybe from Microsoft have decided that it’s the last to change, we will see later, and was Skydrive which suited the new look, the calendar should do the same in the coming days or months.

As we can see we will have to say goodbye permanently to Hotmail to make way for a new interface, faster and more modern, a design intended to save time and highly effective functionality, if you have not yet created an account  in Outlook and it’s interisting for you, we invite you to create an Outlook email account and to use all the services it has for you.

How to go back to hotmail from Outlook.com ?

The Problem:

You updated your Hotmail interface to Outlook but you don’t like.

How do you go back to the old Hotmail interface?

 

The solution:

Do the following:

Log into Outlook.com

Click the Options icon (gear-shaped icon located top right) and select “Go to Hotmail”

Click “No comment” and you’re done!

Can’t you go back to Hotmail from your Outlook?

If when you following these steps, you can not see the option that brings you back to Hotmail from Outlook means that Microsoft has removed that option of your account and therefore you can not go back to your old Hotmail account.

The company explains that eventually Hotmail now outdated and Outlook will be now the free email service from Microsoft.

As part of this transition, have decided to remove the option to return to Hotmail.

 

Reload Hotmail to Outlook

Steps to update your email Hotmail:

As you probably already know the email service offered by Microsoft that up for so long was known as Hotmail is now called Outlook. And although it could well believe that the measure is solely for a name change, the fact is that there is more adjustment. The new tools that promise better and more effective functions give the welcome to all internal restructuring that give also welcomes to one email totally different from what we already know.

But we must start for the principle, ie on the transition process that will lead to our new mail.

In Microsoft assure us that after this step, do not lose any contact or personal information contained in our account. Much less emails that we have stored.

To give way at this configuration, we invite you to follow the following tutorial that we have prepared to you in our Hotmail Email site.

First, you must proceed to write ” www.outlook.com ” in the address bar of your browser.

You may note that will appear a page similar to the Hotmail account as always, the only difference is that the latter includes the new company logo.

Now, you must enter the same email address what you have so far with the completion “Hotmail.com“. Then enter your password.

You may note that will appear a page titled “Hotmail has been updated to Outlook.com”. Now proceed to make click on the “Continue” link to the inbox.

And that’s it. First you will see the new look of your mailbox Outlook, an inbox clean and simple design like the style we see in Gamil or Yahoo Mail.

Hotmail disappears and is renamed as Outlook.com

 

The veteran free email service Hotmail, created by Microsoft in 1996, was renamed since yesterday as “Outlook” (www.outlook.com). In June, the Hotmail email has remained as the most used in the world, with 324 million users, ie 36 percent of the global market. But recently has experienced a loss of customers from Google’s Gmail, the fastest growing rival, now has a share of 21 percent. For its part, Yahoo Mail is sitting at 32 percent.

To ensure leadership, the new Outlook features a new look simpler and more fluid, links to social networks and new features to manage the massive amount of junk mail that floods mail accounts.

Users can connect the account with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to see the latest updates from the contacts. Also provides online chat via Facebook.

On the other hand, Microsoft has taken into account that, at present, advertising, offers, discounts and updates from social networks account for some 80 percent of the inbox of a typical user. To help combat this excess, the new service automatically detects mass messages and places them in a separate folder.

 

The new mail also allows simplified access to the Internet Microsoft products, such as SkyDrive for storing documents and Office Web Apps to work away from the PC.

How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook

 

But Windows Live Hotmail working with Outlook, available for paying subscribers of Windows Live Hotmail, is really great. You can send and receive emails through your Windows Live Hotmail account from within Outlook, and you can archive messages locally.

Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Outlook 2010

To add a free Windows Live Hotmail account to Outlook 2010:

Select File | Info in Outlook email.
Click Add Account.
Make sure E-mail Account is selected.
Enter your name under, yes, Your Name:.
Type your Windows Live Hotmail address under E-mail address:.
Enter your Windows Live Hotmail password under both Password: and Retype Password.
Click Next >.
Now click Finish.
Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007

To set up a free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook 2003 and 2007:

  • Download and install Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector.
  • Select Outlook Connector | Add a New Account… from the menu in Outlook.
  • Type your Windows Live Hotmail address under E-mail address:.
  • Enter your Windows Live Hotmail password under Password:.
  • Type your name under Name:.
  • Click OK.
  • Click OK again.
  • Restart Outlook.

As an alternative to Outlook Connector, you can try one of the tools that allow you to access web-based email accounts via any POP or, sometimes, IMAP account such as Outlook.FreePOPs, for example, usually works well.

Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account in Outlook

In addition to setting up Windows Live Hotmail using Outlook Connector as described above, you can download newly incoming mail from your Windows Live Hotmail inbox to Outlook using POP.

To set up Windows Live Hotmail as a POP account in Outlook:

  • Select Tools | Account Settings… from the menu in Outlook.
  • Go to the E-mail tab.
  • Click New….
  • Make sure Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP is selected.
  • Click Next >.
  • Type your name as you want it to appear in outgoing email under Your Name:.
  • Enter your Windows Live Hotmail address under E-mail Address:.
  • Make sure Manually configure server settings or additional server types is checked.
  • Click Next >.
  • Make sure Internet E-mail is selected.
  • Click Next >.
  • Make sure POP3 is selected under Account Type:.
  • Enter “pop3.live.com” (not including the quotation marks) under Incoming mail server:.
  • Type “smtp.live.com” under Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.
  • Enter your complete Windows Live Hotmail address (“example@hotmail.com”, for example) under User Name:.
  • Type your Windows Live Hotmail password under Password:.
  • Click More Settings….
  • Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
  • Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
  • Verify Use same settings as my incoming mail server is selected.
  • Go to the Advanced tab.
  • Make sure This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) is checked under Incoming server (POP3):.
  • Make sure SSL is selected for Use the following type of encrypted connection: under Outgoing server (SMTP):
  • Check that “995″ appears under Incoming server (POP3:) and “25″ under Outgoing server (SMTP):.
  • Click OK.
  • Now click Next >.
  • Click Finish.
  • Click Close.

Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook 2000 and 2002

To configure Outlook to access your existing Windows Live Hotmail account (you can’t set up a new account from within Outlook):

  • Make sure you have an subscription for the Windows Live Hotmail account you want to access offline.
  • Select Tools | E-mail Accounts… from the menu in Outlook.
  • Make sure Add a new e-mail account is selected.
  • Click Next.
  • Choose HTTP as the Server Type.
  • Click Next again.
  • Enter your account details in the E-mail Accounts dialog box:
    • Type your full name under Your Name:.
    • Type your Windows Live Hotmail address under E-mail Address:.
    • If Outlook has not entered it for you automatically, type your Hotmail email address User Name:.
    • Type your Windows Live Hotmail password under Password:.
    • Select Hotmail in the HTTP Mail Service Provider box.
  • Click Next.
  • Click Finish.

 

Replace Outlook Hotmail.com

Microsoft has officially launched Outlook.com email service, this service will eventually replace your version with more experience: Hotmail. What started with 0 interest, within 6 months of testing has posted 60 million active users in its Beta phase.

You can start your test using the account @ hotmail or @ Live that you created earlier. Once inside you will see your messages and contacts in your account so do not worry about losing something valuable in the shipment. The first sight of course, is e.

The section is divided into three columns. At the left edge fast your folders and views plus a search bar, the center of the tray messages and ads on the right edge you can customize to your likes and dislikes.

The top section displays a colored headband with buttons configuration tools as the section where you are and an arrow that lets you know what service you are using as well as the others available. Press it to switch between Contacts, Calendar, or SkyDrive.
The upper corner lets you know which tool and switch to contacts or SkyDrive.

The interface looks more clean and organized. As expected, looks and feel of your Windows Phone mobile platform, and its mosaic of Windows 8. In this regard, contact may include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more to post directly to their walls, view updates not get out of your account and have a chat. Skype will be available in the second phase, which we assume will be the next step once finished migrating its entire user base of Skype Messenger, this April 8.

Once you open a message or contact, the color bar comes to life and shows the appropriate actions as Reply message, File, Edit, Groups, Add to Favorites, and more on the message, contact, or open SkyDrive file. Outlook.com also be configured for use on a smartphone.

According to Microsoft’s FAQs, rename functionality your account (eg @ hotmail a@outlook.com) has presented problems for some users and functionality has been closed until inquire and solve the technical problem.

Skydrive goes portable

 Skydrive goes portableOne of the best and newest services that Hotmail have to offer is Skydrive Disk, a virtual space of 25 GB every user have to store whatever kind of information they want, up to music, pictures and even videos. But not just that, the best thing about this service is that you can always share everything you uploaded into this virtual disk with other users, as long as you let them download what you have in your disk, they’re free to download everything you have to share.

But this special service has gone THAT famous that Hotmail has decided to make a special application out of it for smartphones, so now you can use this service everywhere by just downloading the “Windows Phone” application for iPhone. Besides Skydrive, this application has many things that Hotmail has to offer though the fact that you can use Skydrive whenever you want is the best thing this new application may have. With this application you have access to a special place called “Office’s Hub”, letting you manage your files inside that drive and even changing your privacy settings about people who can access your Skydrive.

You can also access another section of this application called “Gallery’s Hub”, where you’ll be able to see the pictures you’ve uploaded into your personal virtual disk and share it as faster as possible, in fact, you don’t even need to download it to your phone, you can directly share it to any other place, or see them right from the Skydrive disk.
As you can see with this, Hotmail doesn’t simply stop growing; they’ll keep improving for their users’ sake, until they become the perfect and only messaging system around the globe. Meanwhile they try to do this; you can enjoy the best services they have to offer at this time.

Free Halloween’s smileys

imagesFree Halloween’s smileysHalloween is one of the most awaited celebration in the USA, right after Christmas, and maybe because of the fact that many kids gets to dress as the creepy character they love and hope to get as many candies and chocolates as screams they may cause. But not just kids enjoy this celebration, because many adults and teenagers enjoy throwing parties where creepiness and alcohol are the main celebrities.

But Halloween is not just a celebration that the real world can celebrate, everything on the web gets ready too, many online games offer special costumes and items that are Halloween-themed, many video clubs offer special offers for Halloween-themed movies, and as well, many websites offers you a “creepy part” of their website for you to enjoy your best screams. Hotmail is not one to be left outside of the celebration, and as well, can give you something really special for you to bring Halloween to every chat session: a special Halloween-themed pack of smileys. Besides being totally free, you can find this special smileys pack inside the website called “Feriademoticones”, a special place where you can find many specials smileys packs, like a Christmas one, Thanksgiving one, even a birthday one, so you have plenty of possibilities to find even 10 packs of Halloween-related smileys. Download it is more than easy, I’m pretty sure you’ll know what to do once you’ve entered the website.

Once you’ve downloaded the special smiley pack, you’ll have to install it into your MSN account, which won’t take more than a few minutes, as simple as that. Now that you’ve this special smiley pack, you can give a creepy moment to some of your friends, or at least get your chatting sessions to a new and more creative level.

Deactivating “restore messages” function

Deactivating “restore messages” function

Hotmail has great advantages for those users who want to be fully organized, those who love to have everything in place and be able to recover every single bit of information they may have lost. For a single user, this is especially great, but for those who share their hotmail’s account with many other users, there are some cares you must have, like be able to secure your password, or you may even don’t want them to read certain mails.

Of course, you can always delete those mails you don’t want other users to see, but they real problem is this: they can always restore those messages if they want to. Fortunately, Hotmail has some special options now for those who have to share a single account for many other users, and is the ability to deactivate the “restore messages” function. To do this, the first step is to log-in to your hotmail account. Once you’ve successfully logged-in, look for the “options” label on your inbox, click on it and then click on “more options”. A new page will load, and you’ll now have to click on the link named “Advanced privacy settings”, under the “Customizing Hotmail” title.

A new page will load again, and now you must pay attention to the second option, the “deleted messages” one. By clicking on the bottom option you’ll disable the “restore messages” function, and be letting the first option marked, you can restore your messages whenever you want. Once you’ve clicked on the second option, click on “save” button and you’re more than ready.

The best thing about this option is that, if you’ve marked the second option and then saved, all the deleted messages up to that point will be permanently deleted and you won’t be able to restore any of them, even if you select the first option back. Now you can be sure that nobody will check those messages they shouldn’t read, or at least that is not necessary for them to know the content of that mail.

Exporting Hotmail contacts

Exporting Hotmail contacts

Computers are delicate tools, if you don’t know how to use them properly you can end up downloading a virus that may erase all of your important files in your computer, like family pictures, video, movies, songs you rightfully own, and even legal programs. This is way that if you have important files you cannot lose, you may want to back-up them by burning them in DVDs, CDs or even copy them to Hard Drive Disks or Flash memories.

But there is something maybe harder to back-up, and this is a contact list. If you delete the whole list by yourself you are able to get it back, but if someone else has stolen your account, you may have lost your entire contact list forever and ever, you won’t be able to get it back… or that was in the past. Now Hotmail has many services for you to take advantage, and once of those is to be able to back-up your contact list by exporting it in a special format. Doing this will take seconds, but will save lot of time incase you lose your account, and the first step to back-up your contact list is to log-in to your Hotmail account and head to your Inbox. Now you’ll find a link called “Options” in the right corner, click on it and then click on “more options” in the pop-up menu. A new page will load, showing lots of titles and options below those titles, but you’ll click on “exporting contacts” option under the “customize your contacts” title. Now you can save your back-up, since it’ll automatically start downloading your back-up contact list in .CSV format.

Once the file has finished downloading, you can now be sure that you have a back-up from your contact list in case your hotmail account gets stolen or a virus deletes all of your contacts. Remember to save this file in a safe place to avoid losing or deleting it.