paxaction.blogg.se - Make a hotmail account

If you do not want anyone to have access to your email account, and if you expect that no one will try to access your account, this “do nothing” approach could work well.

If you don’t make a plan for your hotmail account (and no one hacks into it), your account will be deleted after 12 months of inactivity. Look out for Microsoft to provide a similar tool. For example, Google’s Inactive Account Manager allows account holders to decide whether to delete the account or pass (some) account information on to survivors after a period of inactivity. Tech companies are recognizing that users might not want their accounts deleted, and some are providing tools that allow account holders to decide the fate of their accounts. Microsoft does not currently allow you to decide what should happen to your account when you die, but it might someday. Instructing Microsoft What to Do With Your Account When You Die Microsoft will delete a hotmail account if no one logs into it for 12 months. So if you expect that no one will try to access your account, you can do nothing and it will be deleted after a year of inactivity.

Depend on Microsoft’s inactive policy to delete the account.

Of course, because Microsoft is willing to send all of your account data on a DVD to your family or executor, if you want to keep your account private, you should instruct the person wrapping up your estate not to receive this information – and you’ll need to trust that person to follow your request. Or you can have your executor or family member notify Microsoft about your death and request that it terminate your account.

Instruct someone you trust to delete the account after you die. You can leave login information and have someone go into the account and delete it after your death.

And although Microsoft’s policies don’t explicitly say so, it is likely that aspects of your account data will still exist for some time after they are “permanently deleted.” So, during that time, your account data still exists. Microsoft’s Account Closure Policy gives you 60 days to change your mind about closing your account. Keep in mind that it will take a while for Microsoft to delete all of the data associated with your account after the account is closed. Delete the account before you die. This is not always practical, but it works.Because Microsoft provides account access to the families and representatives of deceased account holders, you will have to plan ahead if you want to keep your account private after your death.