If you have a hotmail account and you want to delete it permanently, there are a few things that you need to do. First, make sure that your hotmail account is set up properly. If it isn’t, you may need to take some steps to fix it. Second, make sure that you have the correct permissions for deleting your hotmail account. If you don’t have the right permissions, your hotmail account will be deleted and all of your data will be lost. Finally, make sure that you backup your hotmail account before deleting it. This way, if something goes wrong and your data is lost, you can always restore it back to its original state by restoring your backup files.


You can remove your Hotmail account without a password, with one exception. The choice to reset your password is the only one accessible. However, you must have access to the email address that you used to set up your Hotmail account in order for this option to become available.

On Android, you may also delete your email account using a web browser like Chrome, but deleting it on the desktop is more convenient.

A Windows Live Hotmail account is permanently deleted after 360 days (five days short of a regular year) of inactivity. If you don’t log into your Windows Live ID for a full year, it, too, maybe irrevocably removed.

Microsoft deleted your account if you opened it and didn’t use it for ten days. After 90 days, Microsoft terminated the account and recycled the address. I’m confident that all of your old Hotmail accounts’ contents have been erased after 90 days.

Go to Settings and click on Open, then Account. When you select the user account that you wish to delete, go to Delete Account from the drop-down menu. Depending on your choice, either choose Keep Files or Delete to get rid of the account.