| General > General Technical Chat |
| Email change, Microsoft account |
| (1/3) > >> |
| AussieBruce:
I've just changed my ISP for more or less unavoidable reasons, and need to attend to my MS account, which has my (old) email address as the account name. The account is the repository for quite a lot of MS products, and it would be a disaster if I broke it. I've done some web searching, including MS information sources, but nothing so far makes me comfortable. Can anyone provide any info on what to do in this situation? Thanks in advance. |
| Shonky:
Can't you just change the email address on the account? The email address is essentially just your user name (and used for recovery), not an actual email address that receives email. |
| gnuarm:
--- Quote from: AussieBruce on August 13, 2023, 01:58:53 am ---I've just changed my ISP for more or less unavoidable reasons, and need to attend to my MS account, which has my (old) email address as the account name. The account is the repository for quite a lot of MS products, and it would be a disaster if I broke it. I've done some web searching, including MS information sources, but nothing so far makes me comfortable. Can anyone provide any info on what to do in this situation? Thanks in advance. --- End quote --- When you say, "need to attend to my MS account, which has my (old) email address as the account name", what are you saying exactly? Are you saying you have to log in using your old email as the user name? Certainly there is a way to change this once you log into your MS account. You probably should have done this before you dropped the old ISP. Or do you still have that account as well? If so, it should be easy, peasy. I isolate my email from all the uncontrolled factors, by owning a domain name, arius.com. My email is all at arius.com and is routed through the ISP. If I change ISP, the current account is backed up at the old ISP and restored at the new ISP. No fuss, no muss. To provide for backup and better spam filtering, I route all my emails through a gmail account. When the ISP is down, I can view my emails at the gmail account... depending. |
| HwAoRrDk:
I've been through this. You cannot change the username of your MS account, so you're stuck with the old email address as the username. It's stupidly infuriating. You can change the email address associated with the account, so all communication will go to the new address, but you're stuck with the old username. Just have to hope going forward no-one ever tries to use the username as an email address. |
| gnuarm:
--- Quote from: HwAoRrDk on August 13, 2023, 09:08:42 am ---I've been through this. You cannot change the username of your MS account, so you're stuck with the old email address as the username. It's stupidly infuriating. You can change the email address associated with the account, so all communication will go to the new address, but you're stuck with the old username. Just have to hope going forward no-one ever tries to use the username as an email address. --- End quote --- Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. You talk about an "MS account", but with no context. Why do you care what the user name is? What do you actually mean by "username". Are you talking about the full email address, or just the part in front of the @? I'm just not getting what the problem is. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |