How to create email account on hotmail? Why hotmail and how to protect account from hackers?

How to Create a Hotmail Account?

Microsoft Hotmail is a great way to keep up with your email, instant messaging, Xbox LIVE, and other Microsoft services—all with one Windows Live ID. Plus, their new SkyDrive lets you access your files in your inbox, across PCs, on you Macs, iPads, and smart phones. We'll show you how, with this step-by-step guide.

1. Go to the Hotmail website: www.hotmail.com. There, you'll be given the option to sign in, or to sign up with Windows Live and a Hotmail address. If you already have a Windows Live account, all you need to do is sign in, using the fields on the right. If you do not have a Windows Live account, click on the Sign Up button, circled below.

2. Fill out the sign up page. This is where you'll decide what your email address will be, as well as entering personal and security information.

3. Enter your personal information. Fill in how how you would like to sign in. This is the easy part: name, birthday, and gender. Note: this information doesn't have to be factual. However, if you do choose to use false information, write it down somewhere so that you'll remember it.

• Create your account name. Enter in a unique name in the Microsoft account name field, and make sure @hotmail.com is selected. Note: you can use an existing email address if you like, but for our example we'll stick to a Hotmail address.
• Create a password. Use at least 8 characters, case sensitive. Numbers are recommended for greatest security. To create a strong password, use all 16 characters and include at least one capitalized letter, as well as one number.

4. Fill in contact information. In case you lose your password, you must enter in at least two methods of contact, including phone and alternate email.

   You can also select a security question from the options below. Note the answer must be at least 5    characters.

5. Tell them who you are. Pick any country from Afghanistan to Monaco to Zimbabwe, and your zip code.

6. Make sure you're not a robot. Perhaps they're taking the thread of Androids seriously, or maybe Microsoft is just keeping spam at bay. Either way, they ask you to enter one of those garbled Captcha lines before you can accept the user agreements and get your account.

7. Agree to the terms of service and privacy policy. At the bottom of the page, there are two blue links to Microsoft's terms of service and privacy policy documents. You don't have to read these to set up an account, but you do have to agree to them. Click "I agree" at the bottom of the page to complete the process.

8. Log into your email account. Visit the Hotmail website again to log into the email account you just created.

Why Hotmail Account?

1. One of the best reason is that in Hotmail, you can attach and share hundreds of photos (or other files) without cluttering the Inbox. This is possible because of its online storage integration with SkyDrive. You can share up to 200, 50 MB files (10 GB) in a single email using SkyDrive.

2. Hotmail, using the Office Web apps, lets you view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents – without leaving your inbox – for free

3. Hotmail has raised the level of controlling Spam with its SmartScreen filtering technology.  Apart from reducing the actual Spam levels drastically, it now provides the users complete control over Graymail. Newsletters, social updates and such mails (called Graymail), which though are not Spam, but clutter our Inbox can be completely swept to keep your Inbox clean.  It can also automatically file away or delete messages you receive by scheduling,  with its features of Sweep and Scheduled Clean up.

4. Hotmail provides a great mobile experience on all major smartphones globally including Windows Phone, iOS and Android by providing a  two-way sync not only with email, but also complete calendar and contact sync. The Hotmail App has been provided on various mobile platforms, like Android, and very recently on Kindle Fire too. The Hotmail App provides a better experience than the Gmail App available on iOS.

5. Hotmail provides chatting capabilities with Facebook’s members also - apart from its own chat in the Inbox. Thus you can update your Facebook status, chat, view updates of your Facebook friends right from your Hotmail inbox. This is not possible in Gmail.

6. Many award-winning Security features makes Hotmail leader in email protection. Features like “Single Use Code”, where a one-time password is sent to your cell phone, so that you don’t have to reveal your true password on public machines. “My Friend’s Been Hacked” feature lets you report that your friend as being “hacked”, when you notice dubious mails from your friend account, which Hotmail will then investigate.  

 

How to Protect Hotmail Account from Hackers?

 

1. Use Stronger Password.

This is a first step that should be taken by which is must and mandatory step that one must take. You must use a stronger password to protect from brute force methods and guess your password. Here is an example on what makes password stronger and secure.

• Use special characters in password like $, #, @, *, Etc and numbers.
• Include both capital letters and small letters.
• Set your password to minimum or more than 10 characters.
• Do not use your contact number, birthday, dear one’s name, favorite dish, Etc

2. Reset or Change Hotmail Password Every 72 days.

Changing password every 72 days is recommended for certain security reasons. This will keep your credential information more secured. Hotmail will remind you every 72 days to change or rest password, unless you enable them. To enable it follow these simple steps:

• Login to your Hotmail account.
• Navigate to account settings.
• Below account information click “change” on password tab.
• Check the box to make your password expire every 72 days.

3. Always Use HTTPS to Connect with Hotmail

Using HTTPS connection to login Hotmail is highly recommended to stay secure from hackers. What happens if you use HTTPS? If a hacker makes a connection with your computer during communication, connection will be broken and hacker will not be able to get any information about the communication. If you’ve not yet enabled HTTPS connection now is the time to do it. Follow these simple steps:

• Navigate to account settings.
• On other options select “Connect with HTTPS”.
• Enable “Use HTTPS automatically”.
• Click Save and you’re done.

4. Don’t Use Same Password for Every Account.

To easily remember password this has become a common habit of users who set the same password for every account they use and thus increasing the chance for hackers to hack your account. To kill this habit set different passwords for different accounts. Write it down on your diary and keep it safe (Note: Do not carry your dairy everywhere). In case you forget open your dairy any time.

5. Using Hotmail on Public Computer.

While accessing Hotmail on a public computer use single code to sign in making sure that you don’t need to enter your password. Enabled HTTPS connection makes your Hotmail account already secured to access from public computer; to be on safer side always use single code to sign in because your email is your business. To use single code you need to enter select the country you live and your mobile number and Single code will be sent to your mobile phone with a text message. Use this code to sign in to your Hotmail account from public computers.

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