Hotmail to the new Windows Live Hotmail, but that should be over by now.

Recently it seemed to occur as accounts were switched from the old style MSN Have to include this as a possibility, but as best I can tell it happens. Once again, clicking on the inbox icon to the left willĬlear the filter and show you all messages in your inbox. Show only messages that have an attachment. To “Show only messages…” that meet a criteria. Item in the Windows Live Hotmail column header is a small icon that allows you This also clears “full message view” which can obscure Panicking, click on the “Inbox” icon on the left to make sure you’re looking Nothing it, like “Drafts”, it might appear that your inbox is empty. If you’ve accidentally clicked on a folder that has Windows Live Hotmail’s new interface, it’s easy to overlook which mail folder Much, and after a few days you can probably be assured that this isn’t the So be sure to tryĪgain in “a while”, whatever that might be. That’s clearly a problem at the mail provider’s end. You login a few hours later, and everything isīack. I would not have guessed this oneĪctually, but I keep hearing reports of it. “If customer service does not respond to your request, I

They can do whatever they want with your account includingĭeleting it, changing it, and sending nasty messages to all your friends and And once someone guesses your password, allīets are off. Remember, and I understand that, but if it’s too easy to remember then We all want to choose a password that’s easy to This has all sorts of complicatedĬonnotations, but in fact this kind of hacking is most commonly done simply by Who knows? And with your password they have the ability to cause all kinds of Yes, you may be friends today, but next week? Next month? Next year? (save, perhaps, your parents if you’re underage). There should never be a reason to share your password with anyone This is probably the most common scenario, particularly among younger users. You shared your password with someone you shouldn’t have. So with that out of the way, let’s look at what might have happened. Things like this happen, apparently moreįrequently than most people realize, and there’s almost nothing that can be I’ll start with my standard admonition: this scenario is exactlyĪgainst relying on any free email account as the only place to keepĪnything you consider important. I’ll review what the possible causes are and also what (little) can be To their MSN Hotmail or Windows Live Hotmail account one day only to find that That’s actually a synthesis of a question I get almost daily.

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