How to merge 2 Microsoft accounts?

Anonymous
2013-04-08T01:17:13+00:00

Hello,

I created a Outlook email account and I have a other outlook email address that used to be a Hotmail address. Before I knew that you can rename a Outlook account I created another account with the same name. Is it possible to merge the two accounts.

Thanks,

Original Title: Delete new Outlook.com email address and rename current .hotmail.com to the Outlook.com email address

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  1. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2015-09-05T18:38:15+00:00

    Since your @msn.com account IS an @outlook.com account, it was unnecessary to create another account. You could have logged into Windows 10 with your existing account.

    You can merge two accounts using a tool like Windows Live Mail. It's fairly straight forward. You can't merge OneDrive allocations, however. You can use both allocations separately, though, keeping some files on one and some on the other. One you can sync through the OneDrive folder on the PC, but the other you'll need to use through a web browser.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-05T12:56:14+00:00

    Windows 10 has been out to the public since July 29, 2015. Granted you manged to tye up all the escalation Techs by having them call back customers to reschedule the scheduled cases created for them. (wasted time & money) & you did deliver to systems through out the month but it is now September 5th. I would like to know when a. Windows 10  will be a real w I ring OS.and b. Since the last post to this Web site was in 2013 regarding merging 2 live accounts, in my case that would be an @msn account and a necessary @outlook.com account I had to create because my desktop lost the c:system \user\profiles\desktop. Thus isn't as easy to fix as it was under Vista,Windows 7, or Windows 8.0. So I had no choice but to create a second Administrator accout to try and backup what was in the first run profile.  Now since it was also necessary to purchase Office 365 which has 1 Tb connected to the MSN account you would think that between 2013 and 2015 there should be a resolution to merging the outlook and MSN accounts. Do to the major effect it has on the over all Microsoft Account. ******@msn.com or ******@outlook.com

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-25T11:54:01+00:00

    add account does not exist under the main page menu. have better directions?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-08-26T17:30:09+00:00

    very nice idea, Dave!! How did you do it with the Xbox??

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