Password on Hotmail
Watch this postI can't remember my password on hotmail on my laptop I just get lost on recovery process should I abandon this and create a new hotmail mail link?
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Usually you have to set a recovery email address (or more recently, a phone number) for the email client to send you a password reset link to. Do you have another email account that you might have used this for? If so, you should be fine to reset the password. Try this: https://account.live.com/pw (microsoft have a resource here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/outlook/forgotten-password)
If you have ever logged in using chrome (googles browser - which is excellent, by the way) you can see all passwords you may have saved at some point by clicking the little menu icon in the top right (looks like 3 hotdogs), then settings, the show advanced settings (bottom of the page), then under the heading "Passwords and forms" click the link that says "manage passwords". Hopefully you'll find it saved in there. I'm sure the other browsers will let you see saved passwords too, but couldn't tell you off the top of my head! Just google "show saved passwords in [NAME OF YOUR BROWSER]"...
Hope that helps! Recovering your password has to be 100 times better than starting again from scratch and re-syndicating your email address!
Good luck, and let us know how you get on incase any others have this problem in the future!