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250 Mb hotmail inbox

Tip: If you want to upgrade your miserable 2MB Hotmail Inbox to 250 Mb and you’re not from the US, change your profile info to a US State (I used “Florida”, Zip 33332), then go to passport.net, and in “Member Services”, close your .NET account. Click through all the warnings (“your emails will be lost”, “the dingo will eat your babies”, etc. — this is bullshit, you won’t lose your email), finish the process, go back to the hotmail site, re-login (by this point your account has been put “on hold”) to reactivate your account (you’ll have to re-do the end user agreement and stuff) and voila. Your account will have a 25 Mb Inbox. Give it up to a month for the 250 Mb upgrade, which will happen automagically.

Comments

27 Jan 20:06

xor spake thus:

Why not just get a Google account?

27 Jan 23:25

sergio spake thus:

I already have a Google account, but this way, my hotmail account can hold a hundred times more spam!

28 Jan 12:09

Amitai spake thus:

Awesome. Why the claim about the email delete thing, though? Are they trying to scare me?

28 Jan 12:14

sergio spake thus:

Well, you are supposedly closing your account, so they would be lost. Thing is, they don’t actually close it, but instead leave it “parked”, so you can reactivate it (I think if you leave it for more than 30 days or so without logging it will get permanently deleted).

When you reactivate, it “wakes up” using the data in your profile. The 250 Mb Inbox is a feature Microsoft offers only in the 50 US states and Puerto Rico, so that’s why you get the extra space.

15 Feb 23:24

larry spake thus:

google accounts give you up to 1gb. i recieve videos, photos, and everything in that emailbox, but this is a nice trick to get your old email account. nice job!

21 Apr 12:28

Sergio spake thus:

Hola soy de argentina y queria avisarle a la gente que habla en español.. que tarda bastante en pasar de los 25 mb a los 250mb
pero si pasa , es decir si ya tenes los 25 mb es que vas en buen camino.

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