When you first add an email account to Outlook Express, you will need to supply both the email address in question and the password for that particular email account. In most cases, you will configure Outlook Express to automatically remember your password so that you don't have to manually re-enter it whenever you want to check your emails. But what if you change your email account's password? This is not a problem, and as you'll see in this tutorial, it is very easy to change your Outlook Express password.
How do I change my Outlook Express password?
Follow these steps to enter another password for an email account in Outlook Express:
- First, open Outlook Express. If your email account password has already changed, you may receive an error message - this is normal, since Outlook Express can no longer login to your email account with that user name (email address) and password. Dismiss the error message.
- Then, click on the "Tools" menu and choose "Accounts":
- Outlook Express will open the "Internet Accounts" dialog, which contains and lists all email accounts and newsgroup accounts you have configured in the past. If you want to only see email accounts, just click on the "Mail" tab.
- Once you have located the email account whose password you want to change, double-click on its name inside the listing, and Outlook Express will load that account's properties. We chose a Hotmail email address to change its password, but the steps are the same regardless of which email provider you are using. Click on the "Server" tab:
- The incoming and outgoing server settings for the selected email account will use the password listed on file under that tab. Under the "Mail Server" section, type your new password inside the "Password" text field, as shown below:
Since you cannot see the password you are changing to (text does not appear in regular characters inside the Password field), make sure that CapsLock is not engaged (don't accidentally type all uppercase letters, in other words), and avoid any typo. If your mistype your new password, Outlook Express will not be able to send or receive emails.
- If you want Outlook Express to store your new password (to spare you from having to enter it all the time), just check the "Remember password" checkbox.
- Now click on the "OK" button to apply the new setting, change the Outlook Express password for that email account, and return to your inbox and email messages.
This is all it takes to change your Outlook Express password for one or more email accounts; and unless you choose not to make Outlook Express remember that password, it will automatically store it and supply that new password as needed to save you some typing! For more tips and tricks about the first email program Microsoft bundled with Windows, see our Outlook Express Tutorial.
Tip: if you are checking that particular email account from several copies of Outlook Express (on different computers or under different Windows user names in the same PC), don't forget to update your password for these copies of Outlook Express as well. The steps we explained in this tutorial only affect the copy of Outlook Express you were using when changing the password.
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