I have been trying to close my account to start afresh with a more appropriate email address and the process has been beyond a joke. I am not reading this account ever again please write to the account I provided to all my friends in a previous email. You got it, is the old effective trick of tying the unsatisfied customer to a pole! So, since I cannot delete this totally useless account I hereby send Mr Bill Gates and his successors my best regards in the hope that I never have to use their crappy products any more. So Microsoft in its never ending wisdom has removed the feature that kills the account. Alas, I am not the only one who has decided to take such a drastic measure. cramming my mailing list with Skype addresses from ages past and other annoying tricks, I have decided to kill this account. Since it does all kinds of things by itself i.e. “The new web interface for Outlook - obviously designed by the inmates of a Chinese asylum while smoking crack - is so idiotically complicated I do not have the time nor the inclination to figure out if it even works. The “Delete Your Account” feature is no longer available. I solved the problem by deleting all my addresses and mails and posted an automatic reply for a year. After that time, it becomes available for other people to use. Please note that Microsoft reserves your email address for 270 days after closing your account, and other people won’t be able to get that email address during that time. Click on deactivate your Hotmail account link to see a new page where you need to click Close account button to permanently close your account and delete all info. Step 5: On the next page, you will see “To close your account you need to deactivate your Hotmail account” message.

Step 4: Scroll down the page, enter the password for your account (if you have forgotten your password, follow our how to reset or recover account password guide) and then click Next button. Here you will see what happens when you close your account. Click on it to see Close your Microsoft account page. Click on it to open the Microsoft account overview page where you can edit and update your personal and security info, and also close the account. Step 3: Under Managing your account, you will see the Account details (password, addresses, time zone) option. Step 2: Click on the Options “cog” in the upper-right corner of the page and click More mail settings to open the Outlook options page.

Step 1: Visit, sign in with your Outlook email address that you want to close and delete.

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