Howto upgrade your Hotmail account to 250MB

Thomas De Maesschalck Posted on by
Here's a tip to get your Hotmail account upgraded to 250MB instead of the regular 2MB which can be a little bit too small sometimes I tested it out three hours ago and immediately my account was upgraded to 25MB. A few minutes ago it was upgraded to the full 250MB.

Warning:
Please only try it at your own risk. Don't be angry if it causes any damage! If there are any important e-mails in your account please backup them before proceeding.

It has worked for me and this trick has also worked for a large amount of other people. But some people report that it didn't work for them..

Anyway, here are the steps:
  • First go to your Hotmail account and log in.
  • Then go to the settings of your account and click on "My Profile".
  • You need the adjust the country to United States and the state to Florida (postal code 33332). (it could be that other states also work)
  • Then go to http://memberservices.passport.net/memberservice.srf?lc%2043.
  • Click on the link to terminate your .NET passport. Then you need to click on the button the contact Hotmail and click on "close my account".
  • Close Internet Explorer and go to hotmail.com and log in again.
  • Normally you should have a 25MB account now. Soon it will be upgraded to 250MB!

Hope it works for everyone!
Thomas De Maesschalck

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.
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  1. Anonymous

    It worked for me :)

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    1. Anonymous

      Did not work :-(

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      3. Anonymous

        yuyi_mail@hotmail.com

      4. Anonymous

        upgrade

    2. Anonymous

      yeah it worked for me... currently 25MB got to wait till they upgrade to 250

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    3. Anonymous

      thanx very easy. 25mb

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    4. Anonymous

      It worked for me. Now 25M. But How soon will it become 250M, do I need to repeat the same steps again or just wait and see?

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      1. Anonymous

        no tengo idea de que chingados hacer!!!!

    5. Anonymous

      huguobin@hotmail.com

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    6. Anonymous

      Wow!! It"s so great ,tahnks a lot!! it"s work for me .you are a genius!!

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      1. Anonymous

        Plz can u teach me Plz, i tried hard & it's not work

    7. Anonymous

      It's work for me as well.. Thanks very much.. for info Sam s'pore

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      1. Anonymous

        ok verydood,thanks

      2. Anonymous

        iouhjk

    8. Anonymous

      It worked and upgraded to 25MB

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    9. Anonymous

      it worked well for me. I have a question. Will this cause any problems with ur account in the future

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    10. Anonymous

      THANK YOU! Its 25MB now...soon 250 yay!! THANKS!~

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      1. Anonymous

        cheacking email but having some difficulty access it.

    11. Anonymous

      it worked for me also!!!! thanks. For the moment I have 25Mb and no problems

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    12. Anonymous

      It DOES work!! I wonder how you found this out. merely by accident?

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    13. Anonymous

      i try to much but i can't access my hotmail account to outlook express messages arived from MSN company that we are not alow to use Hotmail in outlook express for free when i want to upgrade i will be face with problem so please let me know how i can upgrade my account

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    14. Anonymous

      yes

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    15. Anonymous

      Thank You thank you for this help i wish you the good deed regards

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  2. Anonymous

    Or just be a hotmail user for 5 years and they do it anyways

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    1. Anonymous

      I've been a hotmail user for 7 years and I still just have the 2 Mb :-(

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      1. Anonymous

        Me too, but now I have 25mb and waiting for the 250mb ;)

    2. Anonymous

      I'v only had my account for three months and it was automatically upgraded to 250mb, funny thing is i rarely use it. Only when i need to give an email address for something on the net.

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  3. Anonymous

    yes, it worked!

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    1. Anonymous

      20 bucks a year for 2 G with 20 MB attachments.

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      1. Anonymous

        huguobin@hotmail.com

    2. Anonymous

      lifengsheng@hotmail.com

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  4. Anonymous

    doesn`t work if you have an MSN account:(

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    1. Anonymous

      yep, here too... :( Bummer...

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    2. Anonymous

      yupeiyang@hotmail.com

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  5. Anonymous

    Any chance to loose all the previous mail ?? Will they be destroyed only in nigth, or something like this ?

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    1. Anonymous

      how do i get 250mg storage in my hotmail account?

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  6. Anonymous

    Yeah, great! It worked out for me .. Now wait for 250MB :-) Anyone knows how long that can take?

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    1. Anonymous

      from what he said, in 3 hours nearly.

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      1. Anonymous

        i try few time but i cant get it can u teach me how & plz send me a mail to bg.my@hotmail.com , my name is eeling tq

      2. Anonymous

        i try few time but i cant get it can u teach me how & plz send me a mail to bg.my@hotmail.com , my name is eeling tq

    2. Thomas De Maesschalck

      It depends. I got 250MB in about three hours. A friend of me who did this trick at the same time as me is still stuck with 25MB..

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      1. Anonymous

        [b] anyway stuck wif 25mb still better than 2mb storage space rite.... off course the more the merry :) [/b]

  7. Anonymous

    worked for me, got the 25mb. hopefully ill get the 250 soon. tnx :)

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    1. Anonymous

      It's the second day after doing it but it stays to 25MB.. Hoppe that it will go to 250...

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      1. Anonymous

        holas

  8. Anonymous

    can i change the location back from US when upgrade is complete ?

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    1. Anonymous

      ''can i change the location back from US when upgrade is complete ? '' gOOd question ... can change anot ???

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      1. LORDrazer

        I don't know, but if I was you I would wait until I've got the 250MB upgrade.

    2. Anonymous

      I think you can I think you can

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  9. Anonymous

    Got the 25 MB as well. Thanks for the tip!

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  10. Anonymous

    works !! TNX

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  11. Anonymous

    Hmm i tried this too but it didn't work the way i wanted. Im from Sweden and i did exactly what you have written. Now it asks me "You need a parent's permission to continue. Is a parent with you right now?" And then i got to go through some steps where it at last asks me to give them my creditcard nr so they can verify that im an adult. The step where it said Click on the link to terminate your .NET passport went fine but i never got to the point where i should have clicked the "contact Hotmail and click on "close my account" Any ideas on why it didn't appear for me? I would be greatful if anyone could help me out here. I've got some important e-mails on my account and i can't log on to MSN Messenger or my hotmail account.

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    1. Anonymous

      Worked for me! Very straight forward. Don't worry about closing your account because it can normally be reactivated anyway!

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    2. Anonymous

      Im from Finland. Worked fine here. Just after re-activation, go to 'sign in free account' or something like that.

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    3. Anonymous

      Hi, I guess your problem is the date of birth, if you are under 18 years old, you could try modifying your birthdate first to something before january 7th 1987 and then restart the entire process, I hope that works,

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      1. Anonymous

        I also met the problem, And Anyone know how to modifying my birthdate in the case?

    4. Anonymous

      Help!!: Anyone know how to modify my Birthdate? I also met the problem. And I don't know how to modify my Birthdate. Of course I have no Amercia Credit Card.

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    5. Anonymous

      hi My dear friend The things you are telling about is just because you have written your date of birth to some that makes you under 18 years. Change you date of birth in the same "Personal"Menu under "Options" and then proceed on with the method that is described here. Hope it will work for you. If still cant you can email me at khanb197@hotmail.com and i will try to solve out your problem as much as i can. with Success

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    6. Anonymous

      parental permission PLEASE IF YOU GOT A SOLUTION E MAIL IT TO ME AT shawarma46@hotmail.com because i am facing the same problem

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  12. Anonymous

    Worked for me! Very straight forward. Don't worry about closing your account because it can normally be reactivated anyway!

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    1. Anonymous

      Worked for me so far. I now have a 25Mb account and didn't loose anything. When you deactivate the account it seems it will actually remain for up to 10 days and can be reactivated by logging back in. I'm not changing my profile back until it's upgraded to 250Mb - maybe they check... :)

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      1. Anonymous

        I am using hotmail last 7 years and still have 2mb stroge capacity. asd some people opening account today and getting 250mb. that is disgusting!!!!

  13. Anonymous

    Worked for me so far. I now have a 25Mb account and didn't loose anything. When you deactivate the account it seems it will actually remain for up to 10 days and can be reactivated by logging back in. I'm not changing my profile back until it's upgraded to 250Mb - maybe they check... :)

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  14. Anonymous

    Works fine! Now I hope that they don't trace it and bash us :D

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  15. Anonymous

    this is an old trick, it worked also if you put you're from madrid,spain zipcode 20085 and then do step 4,5,6 and 7. and you cant change the zipcode until it gives you the 250 mb, if you changed it you will be stuck with the 25mb and you have to do all the steps again

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  16. Anonymous

    I have 2000MB on hotmail. Don't know how though :) $2 for 6500MB on www.aventuremail.com

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  17. Anonymous

    "Neu bei MSN Hotmail? Der kostenlose E-Mail-Dienst für Ihre sichere und einfache Kommunikation! Webbasierter E-Mail-Dienst Mit MSN Hotmail können Sie Ihre E-Mails jederzeit und überall abrufen - von jedem Internet-Rechner weltweit und absolut kostenlos. 250 MB E-Mail-Speicher und 10 MB für Dateianhänge Dank des großen E-Mail-Speichers* können Sie Ihre wichtigen E-Mails speichern und Dateianhänge bis 10 MB versenden und empfangen. Virenschutz und Junk-Mail-Filter Mit Sicherheit bleibt Ihr Posteingang sauber. Ein- und ausgehende E-Mails werden auf bekannte Viren und Würmer hin geprüft und bereinigt. Jetzt anmelden! * Bei der Anmeldung stehen Ihnen 25 MB zur Verfügung. Die Aktivierung des Ihnen zustehenden Speichers von 250 MB erfolgt frühestens 30 Tage nach der Anmeldung" creating a new account, you get instantly 25MB. After 30 days your account is automaticly being upgraded to 250MB Why should you take the above mentioned "shortcut of a shortcut"? Regards

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  18. Anonymous

    Don`t work

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  19. Anonymous

    It worked for me :) 25 MB, now i´ll wait for the others 225 ..................

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    1. Anonymous

      hi i got 250 in next login ,after 2 mins only !! great !!!

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  20. Anonymous

    worked ok for me and my sis. despite the warning about emails getting deleted if you de-activate your account, none of it actually gets deleted. All my 300 plus emails were still there and all is good. 30 more days to go for the 250Mb. Oh, and as mentioned previously, it doesn't work with @msn.com accounts.

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  21. Anonymous

    Oh my GOD!! It worked. I Can't believe it. 25mb. But I just remember Hotmail gave more space before, don't remember quite well. But for the ones that are confused are a few thing to add. After setting the country and Postal code, you need to save the settings. In the screen that tells you, that you need to sign out, and sign in to the changes to make effect, you have to copy and paste the link provided before on the browser, and hit "enter", then the link that says, to terminate your passpaort appears, and then the ge to hotmail contact. After that, sign in, It will ask you to buy a 2GB mail, but you must clic on the "get free acount", and after a few pages after of offers my MSN, you will sign in as if was the first time you use your hotmail. Salutes from Guatemala City :)

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  22. Anonymous

    It worked for me too ;)) thanks a ton

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    1. Anonymous

      -= Mancubus =- From Kiev, Ukraine. Tried with Maine state. Worked smoothly :o)

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    2. Anonymous

      Thanks, worked as well. was afraid will lose emails but didn't.

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    3. Anonymous

      Worked for me just as well. No upgrade to 250MB though, maybe I'd just wait another month. 25Megs is enough for a trash-use webmail anyway.

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      1. Anonymous

        Quick update: I just got upgraded to 250meg. It took 5 days :-)

    4. Anonymous

      i can you tell me the steps you did it because i can understand how find my profile

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  23. Anonymous

    HEY PPL I GOT 2000MB WTF I'M AMAZED THANX!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA IT WORKS AND IT ROOLZ

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    1. Anonymous

      Worked for me too, I'm at 25MB, waiting for the rest. Thanks

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  24. Anonymous

    thanks,it really works!

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    1. Anonymous

      i got into the same trouble!!! it asks me You need a parent's permission to continue. Is a parent with you right now? :( my important letters. there is a letter i had not read and i am waiting for some important letters. how can i do????????

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  25. Anonymous

    yeah, i was worryed about it deleting my messages, but i had no problems!

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  26. Anonymous

    Thank you thank you thank you, it worked like a dream, now I just am salivating waiting for the 250...ahh.....

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    1. Anonymous

      My account did not upgrade 250 till now. so I am asking, tell me how upgrade my account.

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  27. Anonymous

    Realmente Funciona!!! Lo único es que se borran los correos antiguos.

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    1. Anonymous

      Great job ... the trick is still working ... I was pretty upset some people were upgraded before me while they have been a hotmail member a lot shorter than me ... but the work around was painless :-)

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    2. Anonymous

      Nada que ver, los correos permanecen sin ser borrados. Y funciona a la perfeccion. Dejate de mamadas.

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  28. Anonymous

    It worked for me!!! This really worked!!! i already upgrade all my hotmail accounts, and worked in every one of them, but not in the msn accoutns though, its january 19 2005 and this thing is the real thing!, thanx 4 the tip! Saludos a todos! realmente funciona!

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    1. Anonymous

      adipoli.....its working

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  29. Anonymous

    Ey man I didnt do that can you help me

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    1. Anonymous

      hey mite thnx a lot its awesome all my mails are intact dint lose ne of those mite gr8 job

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    2. Anonymous

      Worked like a charm so good luck and thanks for the info guys

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    3. Anonymous

      Thank you

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  30. Anonymous

    Thanks! It worked for me!!!

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  31. Anonymous

    WOW it works :)

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    1. Anonymous

      It works. Thx Thx Thx I was just looking up the hotmail support form to send in yet another complain. But the link was no where to be found. They hide it somehow. Then Google directed me here and then... everything works out.

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    2. Anonymous

      Piece of shit DAMN YOU Lost everything All replies are also piece of shit

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  32. Anonymous

    today i have my 250 mb upgrade wow!!!! im the one who wrote this few days ago: It worked for me!!! (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Thursday, January 20 2005 @ 04:11:33 CET This really worked!!! i already upgrade all my hotmail accounts, and worked in every one of them, but not in the msn accoutns though, its january 19 2005 and this thing is the real thing!, thanx 4 the tip! Saludos a todos! realmente funciona! ---And now im happy to announce that i have my 250 mb upgrade, yea baby!, this really worked for me, thanx again 4 the tip, and if any of u guys have 25 mb, hold on, soon u will have your 250 mb's, so be patiente ok?, see ya and good look!

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  33. Anonymous

    it's work for me!!! oh! thank you very much.... COOL!!

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    1. Anonymous

      it works! thanks! it dint delete any my emails.

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  34. Anonymous

    Worked, took 2 weeks but I got it upgraded at the end, now it is just to try to revert it to my local settings, I think I will wait a little before doing this. Thank you for the tip.

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    1. Anonymous

      dignity_2007@hotmail.com asdsa

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  35. Anonymous

    It worked for me :) 25 MB, now i´ll wait for the others 225 ..................

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    1. Anonymous

      I got 25M

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  36. Anonymous

    thank you, i simply applied for a new hotmail account by a false Florida state's identity. Then it works, 25MB now.

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  37. Anonymous

    How can I backup my hotmail easy? download with OE dont work.

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    1. Anonymous

      G*DDAMNIT!!! HOTMAIL!@#(!*@&#(!*@&*!!!!! (Sorry, I'm just pisted off!!!) It now asks for the credit card of my parents because my birthday was somehow set to 2000!!!! So Hotmail thinks I am a child, while I am 31!!!!! and I don't have a creditcard! Now I don't have access to my mail anymore, untill I enter a creditcard.

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      1. Anonymous

        sdsfx@hotmail.com thank you

      2. Anonymous

        I got the same message. I will close my Hotmail account. It really is bad. Yahoo or Google mail is definitely better!

  38. Anonymous

    hello!

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  39. Anonymous

    ysgmxl2008@hotmail.com

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  40. Anonymous

    thank YOU...it worked for me...i am sooo happy......Davin

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  41. Anonymous

    haha1!

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  42. Anonymous

    Good tip ! It does work!

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    1. Anonymous

      Ha, it does work!!

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    2. Anonymous

      Thanks!But,

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  43. Anonymous

    omg... u r a genious... it worked!!!! at 1st im a little scare that it will destory all my maill.. but it din!!!! muahaha... i m trying to find out abt this for very very long.. n i gave up... n my maill always max out in 2 days.. now it worked.. so happy. rena from singapore

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  44. Anonymous

    OH Oh OH , it works!! i thought I already closed and terminated to the end of my old buddy account.. but it didnt !! all mails are still keeping there. Thanks a lot

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  45. Anonymous

    hey mann! amazing I got 250M in a few minutes.(Log in and log out 2-3 times.)

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    1. Anonymous

      when i open my HOTMAIL Account i got 25MB , that trick works for me? i want 250MB!!!

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    2. Anonymous

      when i open my HOTMAIL Account i got 25MB , that trick works for me? i want 250MB!!!

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  46. Anonymous

    ????

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    1. Anonymous

      ive seen this trick for month now but just had the balls to try it, it worked!!!

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  47. Anonymous

    SIGN UP IN YAHOO NOW AND GET 1GB !!! HOTMAIL SUCKS !!

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  48. Anonymous

    Cannot "renew" my profile!!! I cannot "renew" my profile!!! I try to "renew" my profile, however, it didn't save it for me. my profile only keep my old data. anyone can help?

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  49. Anonymous

    I cannot "renew" my profile!!! I try to "renew" my profile, however, it didn't save it for me. my profile only keep my old data. anyone can help?

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    1. Anonymous

      I had converted an account before, it worked perfectly. in that account, i can change my profile, but in this new one i'm trying to convert, it never saves the new profile, and always takes you back to the edit-profile page. my guess is that either they are intentionally preventing people from outside US to change their profile, or there's a new glitch in the system. In both possibilities, this was introduced with the new change in the passport login form (now it's blue). Note that they can tell which country you're from. I don't think it has anything to do with privacy settings, cause i blocked everything and deleted all cookies and stuff, but they still show country=LB in their URL, where LB stands for lebanon, i.e. not USA

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      1. Anonymous

        yea i had the same problem try use a proxy so they cant know ur country from the ip ..

  50. Anonymous

    1. 25 Mb is available for all accounts, even the old ones like mine are upgraded to 25 Mb. 250 Mb however can be maintainted when creatiing a new account (just read at the login prompt) according to msn. If you follow the link though it says only 2mb at the page - really odd. Anyway for upgrading your old accounts. Crappy instruction i think and it might lead to a lot of deleted account. Do you mean: ----------------------------------------- First go to your Hotmail account and log in. Then go to the settings (OPTIONS) of your account and click on "My Profile" (MUST BE IN PERSONAL TAB). You need the adjust the country to United States and the state to Florida (postal code 33332). (it could be that other states also work)- OK GOT IT! Then go to http://memberservices.passport.net/memberservice.srf?lc%2043. (FROM THE SAME WINDOW OR ANOTHER OR SHOULD I LOG OUT AND THEN GO TO THE LINK?) Click on the link to terminate your .NET passport. (YOU MEAN THE ONE UNDER CUSTOMER SUPPORT? THERE IS NO DIRECT LINK ON THE PAGE YOU DESCRIBE) Then you need to click on the button the contact Hotmail and click on "close my account". (OK I CLICK THE BUTTON AND GETS A QUESTION DO YOU REALLY WANT TO END YOUR ACCOUNT - "CONTINUE / ABORT) SHOULD I CONTINUE OR STOP HERE? IF I CONTINUE IT SAYS I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS MY ACCOUNT ANY MORE. Close Internet Explorer and go to hotmail.com and log in again. BUT IF CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT HOW CAN YOU? Normally you should have a 25MB account now. (YES YOU ALLWAYS HAVE 25 MB NOWADAYS) Soon it will be upgraded to 250MB! (I WONDER - PLEASE GIVE A PROPER DESCRIPTION AND ILL TRY) Regards Boogieman

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  51. Thomas De Maesschalck

    I don't know whether this trick still works.. The article is already six months old and Microsoft seems to have changed the log-in interface.

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  52. Anonymous

    Hi, I am sorry to say that I am unable to upgrade my hotmail account. I tried many times. So, is there anything which has been blocking to upgrade my hotmail account ? Nepal paudyal poudelktm_np@hotmail.com

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  53. Anonymous

    Change cuntry back It worked for me to but when i tryed to sign in with the cuntry set to usa i i got an error saying the page coudnt be displyed, so i changed the cuntry back to Norway wich is where im from, and i still got the 25mb upgrade. Thnx!

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  54. Anonymous

    it worked:D 10x but if anny one knows how to have gmail invite i will be :D if some one send me it narfouz_88@hotmail.com

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    1. Anonymous

      Thanks. I use this since 1999.I am very happy for 250 MB.See you later...

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  55. Anonymous

    OMG!!!! wow this is weird...my msn is already 1024 mb!! and i didn even try to do anything i jus realized that now

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  56. Anonymous

    what a ***** scam

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  57. Anonymous

    what .net passport. When i clicked on this link http://memberservices.passport.net/memberservice.srf?lc%2043 there was no tab .net passport nothing bloody annoying?????????

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