You are here because your Hotmail account is receiving excessive spam emails or you are switching to other email service; Gmail or yahoo and you want to delete your Hotmail account before doing so. Deleting Hotmail email account isn’t really a good choice.

Before deleting Hotmail account you need to know these few points.

• Your email address and password will be permanently deleted.
• All contacts will be lost and are unable to access.
• Mails from inbox will be deleted and your account will be inactive.
• All inactive accounts can no longer receive or send any message and it won’t receive any mail.
• If an email is sent to your inactive Hotmail account, it will be sent back to sender with an error message.

How to close your Hotmail account permanently?

Hotmail has less spam than any other email providers and cleanest design. You receive excessive spam email because your email was hacked or exposed too much in the internet world.  Hotmail really doesn’t care why you want to close your Hotmail account. But you can close any time you want in an instant by following this simple step by step method:
1. Login to you Hotmail Account

2. At the top right corner, click the drop down button beside your username.

3. Click on the Account.

4. Here you can see your Hotmail account overview, below other options, click Close your account.

5. You will be redirected to a new page where you need to enter your password. After your Hotmail password is entered click yes.

Congrats! Your Hotmail account is closed.

Your account will not be deleted immediately after closing your account; it will be in inactive mode. You can activate your Hotmail account by simply logging in. If your Windows Live Hotmail account is inactive for more than 4 months that is 120 days, then it will be permanently deleted and your username will be available that can be taken by somebody else. You can activate your Hotmail account any time within those 120 days by simply logging in.

If you have not accessed your Hotmail account for 270 days that would be 8 and a half month, your Hotmail account will be marked as inactive, all your mails are deleted and you don’t receive any new mails. Five days short to complete one year (360 days) and still your account is inactive then your Hotmail account will be permanently deleted and after one year of completion your Hotmail id will be ready to be taken by someone else.

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Article by Anand Yadav

Hello, I’m Anand Yadav, Creator of Techinium. Pursuing studies in Electrical Engineering. Interested in Web Technology, Books and more. You can Follow @AnandYadavbn.