How to Create Hotmail/Outlook Account [Step by Step]

Geeta Ahir
3 min readDec 10, 2020

Hotmail is one of the most used web-based mail serviced and no wonder people all over the world, find it easy and useful in any respect. The new outlook feature enabled mail service makes it even more attractive and convenient in many ways. You can open an account in outlook.com or hotmail.com synonymously and use it for personal or official use.

This article will also provide step-by-step information about how to signup for a Hotmail Login account. This is the best and amazing medium of connecting with others professionally and getting the work done.

Steps to Create Outlook Account (Complete Procedure)

  • First of all, you will get an interface asking for you to sign in or sign up when you first come to hotmail.com or outlook.com.
  • You will see the Create Account at the top of the Hotmail login page.
  • As a first user, you must take the sign-up option and will enter all the required fields required to open your account.
  • Please just be sure of the site that the account/sign up now the link has taken you to. It must be signup.live.com.
  • There will be some mandatory fields for you and some optional fields you need to fill up all the points that are relevant and then move ahead furthermore.
  • Mandatory fields will include your Name, Address, Date of Birth, Mobile No, Alternate E-Mail Address, etc. along with some security questions to safeguard your account. This one is an important one for recovering your account in case you forget your password and cannot recover it in any normal way possible.
  • You have to choose a convenient username and password for your account. Try to be a little imaginative here for selecting your name- as this is the perfect identification for all in near future, as you will find many users opting for the same name and the conflict will force you to take other options for your username here.
  • Passwords must be alphanumeric in nature and must be robust enough for security purposes.
  • Privacy is an important factor and Microsoft takes good care of your account security and privacy and gives you a secured code option for recovering your account.
  • After you fill up your form click on the sign-up button as the last step for submitting your information.
  • For final submission, you have to click on the ‘sign up’ for you to get an email in your inbox. This would surely help your mail to reach the desired inbox.
  • After you confirm that email, you get access inside your account from where you can manage your email, OneDrive, and other Microsoft facilities and apps like Office online and all.

There is an option also for you to get signed in by default, by saving your password, through the Keep Me signed in option on the interface.

The most important and mandatory part while formulating an account is security and safety — one must check all probable details about securing the Hotmail account. If you are very new while creating such an account you must check in with experts who can well play a part who can help you to solve issues if anything persists.

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