Microsoft Outlook is one of the most used messaging services in the world. It's an excellent email client – probably the best at this point if you want to call it that. However, some users who have not used the service for a long time since the time of Hotmail are having trouble coming back. The main reason is the inability to recover their passwords. Now, recovering a password when Outlook is interested in the tools provided by Microsoft is very easy, but it does not always work, especially if users are missing important information.
With this in mind, we will show you how to recover the password of your account in a classic way, and using a free software called PassView Mail. Once you've found your account information, we suggest you save the login data in a web browser or one of the many free password managers.
How to recover the Outlook password
If you're having trouble recovering your Microsoft Outlook password, here's what should help you:
- Use the recovery option of Outlook.com
- Recover password with PassView Mail
Let us look at this in more detail.
1) Use the recovery option of Outlook.com
For most people, they will use this option instead of Mail PassView. Pay special attention. The first thing you need to do here is to visit Outlook.com via your web browser and access the login section.
From there, type your user name or email address, and then press Enter. After that, you should now see the option, I forgot my password. You will want to click on it right away to start the recovery process. You will now be asked to enter your e-mail address again, press Enter and follow the instructions provided.
This should be sufficient in most cases to recover a password. Do not stress yourself.
2) Recover password with PassView Mail
If, for any reason, you are unable to recover your password easily, we must now consider the alternative that is not the best but that might work for some. You see, for Mail PassView to work, users must have Outlook on the desktop.
To get started, download Mail Passview from the official site, then install it. Do not forget that some antivirus tools may consider the tool as a threat and prevent it from running on your computer. In this case, make sure you never scan the program with your anti-virus software.
Now after installation, the software should automatically display your account information. But keep in mind that it only supports POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP accounts.
Download Mail PassView via the official site now. The download link is near the end of the post.
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