"I have decided to close my Hotmail account permanently"

This is one of the biggest decisions that a person may have made at any given time, who for different reasons and reasons has decided to stop using their Microsoft email account; the possibility of closing a Hotmail account can be one of the most traumatic tasks for a few people, this despite a fully well-defined option to perform this task.

If we have proposed close an account from Hotmail definitely, implicitly we are also referring to Outlook, new name that Microsoft came to adopt for this email service. In this article we will dedicate ourselves to analyzing the 2 ways that exist (and there may be a few other alternatives) to be able to close an account from Hotmail definitely, without the need to use third-party tools.

Close a Hotmail account permanently by the conventional method

Well, before proceeding to close an account from Hotmail we should definitely back up everything that is contained in our email; This means that if we have received attachments (images, sound, documents or video) we will have to back up all that information at this very moment, since later, all this will cease to exist when the account is closed. In addition to this, our contact list should also be part of this backup, for a simple precaution in the event that it is permanently deleted; the procedure to follow (as a conventional method) to close an account Hotmail is definitely the following:

• We open our Internet browser.
• In the URL address we write to hotmail.com
• We enter with our respective credentials.

• Later we do click on our profile name located towards the upper right side of our account.
• From the options shown we choose the one that says «Account settings«.

• We unfold to the end of the window that has appeared to us.
• We look for the option «Close account»And we click on it.

• A new warning window will appear.
• We confirm this task by entering our password.

• We click on «Next«.

With these simple steps, we may have already received a last window in which Microsoft confirms that we have been able to close an account from Hotmail definitely; It should be clarified that in the penultimate step we will be shown a window with very specific warnings offered by Microsoft and where, it is indicated that users who have opted for this modality to close their account, will no longer be able to use their contacts, emails and the information stored in them, access to XBox Live among a few other features.

Safe option to close a Hotmail account permanently

The procedure that we indicated above can be effective in most of the times (approximately, in 90% of the cases), although a small margin of error is usually present and therefore, the possibility of close an account by Hotmail it is definitely truncated by a small bug proposed by Microsoft; many users who have tried to perform this task (by the conventional method we mentioned above) have received in response, that there is a pending payment to one of the firm's services, having to click on a link to make said payment.

When the link proposed by Microsoft is clicked, another message appears mentioning, that the user owes absolutely nothing to the signature, being a contrast that practically prevent the user from the possibility of close an account by Hotmail definitely; Advantageously, there is a safe option to permanently close the account, something that you can do in the following way:

• We enter our Hotmail account with the respective credentials (following the first steps of the conventional method shown above).
• We open another browser tab and paste the link to close an account by Hotmail definitely.

We will leave this link in the final part of this article, which you can copy and later paste in the new browser tab that you generated, although you could also do it from this same article. With this, you will only receive a confirmation of what you are trying to do, something that if approved by you, will conclude with the definitive closure of your Hotmail account.

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