1. Computing

Discuss in my forum

Readers Respond: Why Did You Close Your Windows Live Hotmail Account?

Responses: 393

By , About.com Guide

Old Email Account

2007 I don't use. I have a Hotmail made last year which has been my main for about a year. I now use Outlook.com for email and to be honest I just know I'm not planning on using the Hotmail from 07.
—Guest Brandon

Emails Wiped from Computer

Live Mail has never performed how I wanted it to and all my emails over the past 3-4 years have been wiped from my computer for which I blame Live Mail and the damned insistence in trying to hook me up to other things I don't want or need and blocking access to my Hotmail accounts..
—Guest David Glasswell

Harassed

I gave my email address to a person online and now they have been filling my email with junk and spam. The address of the person I don't remember. I will plan to close the account to try and stop them from harassing me from the anonymity of their computer.
—Guest David

Hacked

Had this account since 2000, spam got sent through it; someone hacked into my account and sent my friends and even to me junk emails.
—Guest Not going to give my name

I quit

Twice my account has been closed, or I have been refused access for some unknown reason. Twice is too many. Good-bye.
—Guest joeodonnell

I Quit for Two Reasons

I quit for two reasons: the first is because I am so tired of all the junk mail, but the more important reason is that Hotmail, while free, supports Planned Parenthood which is the leading abortion platform in America. I can't condone in company that subsidizes the killing of humans.
—Guest plumwuli

Spammed, Hacked and Hijacked

Unwanted spam that will not go away, then I was HACKED with a $900 request (when I responded to a FROM looking like it was from Hotmail and a click here link on it to reopen my account through it) and return addy is my email account! On top of that - 2 days later the account was HIJACKED (account was stollen and my password will not open it anymore). I cannot even get my addresses out of it. By the time account managers get me a reset password, I may not even have any addresses in it.
—Guest Charlotte

Hotmail Lacking Security and Assistance

Closing hacked Hotmail account immediately due to lack of security and tech assistance.
—Guest jane mulvana

Hotmail Sucks

Hotmail tried to charge me 70$ to fix my account after i had been hacked. Unbelievable!
—Guest lana

Single Use Code Problem with Hotmail

Why is Hotmail requiring me to use a single use code from my home computer. And, even when I try the code does not work. This is so frustrating. I actually got into my Inbox one time and I thought the problem was solved, but I signed out and tried signing back in and the troubles started all over again. There's no help for this anywhere. I've searched for hours. I'm sick of it.
—Guest Roger George

Several Accounts, Duplicates Sometimes

I closed my account because I have several different email accounts, and sometimes I keep getting duplicates.
—Guest kasiola

Ineffective Block

I closed my Hotmail account because no matter how many times I blocked a certain person they continued to get through, and I don't even know this person.
—Guest sheila

Blocked FAR too much

My main Hotmail I use has been blocked so I go to the one where there is the code but that one has been blocked so I go to the next one which also too has been blocked. After that it tells me I need a phone number to fix up that one. I don't have a phone so I really am annoyed that 3 of the emails that I use for different reasons have all been blocked and it has gone to the point where I really do not bother to waste my time in trying to do things that would really get on my nerves.
—Guest Jacob Geej

Someone Trying to Log in to My Hotmail

Someone has been trying to log in to my Hotmail, and I have not been on my computer for days. But yet it tells me I've tried this attempt too many times.
—Guest livingindarkness@hotmail.com

Hacked

Sending spam to all my contacts, and I constantly have spam sent to me despite new security measures. Hotmail is a joke.
—Guest huyu

I Quit Because...

Why Did You Close Your Windows Live Hotmail Account?

Receive a one-time notification when your response is published.

©2013 About.com. All rights reserved.