Only caveat: you will need an Xbox 360.Ĭreate a new Live ID account of your choice. But all is not lost and there is a way to change your Live ID, keep your accounts and your app purchases.
You’ll need to buy them or download them again.” “If you buy apps, games, music, or videos using one Windows Live ID, you won’t be able to use those same things with your new Windows Live ID. According to the Windows Phone FAQ, if you change your Live ID on your phone, you’ll have to hard-reset the phone and you’ll lose your apps. If you are told you cannot make the change like in the image above, then you have our problem. If you’re allowed to change it, then by all means, you’re almost done! No need to go on. Where your Live ID is listed (first line), select “Change” That will be the easiest method though we have to warn you, original Hotmail accounts can’t do this. Part I - First, check if you can change your Live ID manually. Whatever it may be, let’s move on to getting that switch. Surely we’re not going to start over and lose all of that, are we? We want to start from scratch (and not just change our email address).īut what happens to our Xbox 360 account? What about our $15 a month Zune Pass (with free 10 song credit)? Our App Hub account? And those apps…sure, you have bought apps for Windows Phone, but we’ve spent well over $600. Our second problem is Hotmail users can’t change their Live ID in the settings (don’t think we haven’t tried).
It was full of spam, had the antiquated address and frankly we just don’t like our username.
So we wanted back into Microsoft’s cloud.īut our Hotmail account was lame, it was broken. Now in 2012, between SkyDrive, Live Mail, Windows Phone Marketplace, App Hub, Messenger and our growing dislike with all things Google, we decided to give up on Gmail. We still didn't use Hotmail though, so we ignored it. All of a sudden your Hotmail account was your Live ID account and it was the key for using a Windows Phone 7 device. Then a funny thing happened: Windows Phone 7. That was fine for many years as Hotmail was pretty weak for most of the 2000s as Gmail stole the limelight. Instead, we had our ISP email accounts for that and our Hotmail quickly became our "junk email" account, our throw away if you will.
Back in the day, was great for registering with sites, buying things, etc. We've had our Hotmail account since 2002 which pre-dated even Google's Gmail (introduced in 2004). To begin with, some of you may be wondering why you would want to change your Live ID in the first place.