Is It At All Possible To Return To Leave Outlook And Return To Hotmail?

[piggynose]

i simply dont like outlook, so would like to get my old hotmail back.

[Old_Geezer]

Unlikely I'd suspect.

But if you install an e-mail client on your PC and interface through it, you won't care what they do to the look at the website.

[snags]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/outlook/switch-back-hotmail

[Buenchico]

Use decent email service instead:
http://www.gmx.co.uk/
and configure the mail collector to forward mail from your Hotmail/Outlook address to it. That way you can keep your existing email address but use a well-designed interface.

[HansUrbancka]

Hotmail is now only an E/mail address which at one time could have been retained as an option. Also for a period of time it was possible to revert to the Hotmail address from Outlook.....unfortunately, No further the case.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/outlook/switch-back-hotmail

Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

@snags....I was obviously typing when you posted and we have both given the same link.

It says in the link // You have the option to keep your @Hotmail address and/or get an @Outlook.com address.//

I am assuming that piggynose choose to have an Outlook address and if that is the case there is no way back to Hotmail.

Hans.

[piggynose]

gmx sounds dodgy, they want my email address and password. i think i´ll pass

[Buenchico]

>>>gmx sounds dodgy, they want my email address and password

GMX is run by one of the biggest and most well-respected internet companies in the world, 1&1, who provide internet facilities (such as web design and web hosting) to many major multi-national companies. They're hardly cowboys (and they're far less intrusive than either Microsoft, who run Outlook, or Google, who run Gmail)

To use GMX you first need to create an account with them (giving you an email address ending in @gmx.co.uk). You do that by clicking on 'Sign Up Now' and entering the relevant details (i.e. selecting a username and password). Once you got that account you can use that email address and simply forget about your Hotmail one or, more likely, use the 'Mail collector' facility to retrieve your mail from the Hotmail/Outlook server. Obviously you have to enter your Hotmail/Outlook address and password at that stage; if not, anyone would be able to get your mail that way!

[ChuckFickens]

Outlook.com and hotmail.com are the same thing.

The difference is the "people" that provide the service (free of charge) have decided to change how it looks to you, the functionality is exactly the same....

So basically.. no, there is no way to go back to the old way the free service provider used to be, you just need to learn the new way they provide a free service. (it's actually better BTW)

[Buenchico]

(With apologies to Piggynose for going off topic)

Welcome back, Chuck!

We've missed you!