just some thoughts...

[magmo]

Hi


Guess if I was suprised and stunned when I visited

http://www.hotmail.com

and found that my old hotmail adress that I haven't used for years and definitly not from this computer allready where filled in. How did that happend??

I mean Microsoft must have a major database with information about all windows users or...?


Regards

 

[bcastner]

Start, Run, control userpasswords2
Advanced tab.

At the top you can edit or modify your Passport account.

 

[magmo]

Hi


But I have never created any .net passport account...

 

[bcastner]

You would not have had access to Hotmail otherwise.

 

[linney]

Do you use Windows or MSN Messenger?

If you used a Hotmail account to sign in to an earlier version of Windows Messenger but you did not use the Hotmail account for any other purpose, your Hotmail account may no longer exist. A Hotmail account is deleted if it is not used during the first 10 days after you register or for any consecutive 60 days.

To verify that your account still exists, sign in to your Hotmail account at the following MSN Web site:

http://www.hotmail.com/

Common Solutions for Windows Messenger Account Logon Problems

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307294&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[magmo]

Hi

I am sure that I have never logged in to hotmail from this computer, and I have never used messenger at all. I just visited hotmail to create a account for a friend, and then saw my own old adress filled in.

And if the account should be deleted after 60 days, then my account should definitly not exist since I haven't used it for years.

 

[linney]

Perhaps your account is still listed in the "Contacts" on somebody else's machine (from your past) who does use Messenger and this may be keeping it alive?

 

[magmo]

Maybe, but I still doesn't understand how Microsoft can connect my computer with my oooold hotmail account, that is beyond me....