Niccolò Rossi
12th January 2010, 06:02
It just occured to me that it might be a good idea to ask here about a problem I am currently having with MSN. I hope this is the right board to post it on, if not, mods, please feel free to move it.
Anyway, at the moment I'm in a bit of a pickle. For about a month now I have been locked out of MSN messenger and email. I have two MSN accounts, one under my real name for personal use and one of political purposes. I happen to chat to a number of revleft posters using the latter, so for all of those wondering where I have been, now you know.
The problem was caused when my password expired. I changed it to a strong password (which at least should have) included capital letters, punction marks and numbers. Stupid me though, it seems as though I punched in what I indended to punch in incorrectly. As such, my password has now been changed to one which I do not know.
I have attempted many times to type in my intended password and passwords resembling it to no avail. The obvious solution would be simply to answer the secret question and retrieve the password. Silly me though, I failed to set one up with the account initially, thus I cannot retrieve my password this way. An alternate method of password retrieval is getting it emailed to an alternate email. Stupidly once again, I failed to set one up when opening the account so as not to link it to any of my other accounts. Thus I cannot use the two methods of password retrieval offered by MSN.
Long story short, I'm looking for any advice or solutions on how to solve the problem. I do not want to ditch the email altogether and establish a new one, if this is the case alot of important data will be lost.
Thanks in advance,
Nic.
Anyway, at the moment I'm in a bit of a pickle. For about a month now I have been locked out of MSN messenger and email. I have two MSN accounts, one under my real name for personal use and one of political purposes. I happen to chat to a number of revleft posters using the latter, so for all of those wondering where I have been, now you know.
The problem was caused when my password expired. I changed it to a strong password (which at least should have) included capital letters, punction marks and numbers. Stupid me though, it seems as though I punched in what I indended to punch in incorrectly. As such, my password has now been changed to one which I do not know.
I have attempted many times to type in my intended password and passwords resembling it to no avail. The obvious solution would be simply to answer the secret question and retrieve the password. Silly me though, I failed to set one up with the account initially, thus I cannot retrieve my password this way. An alternate method of password retrieval is getting it emailed to an alternate email. Stupidly once again, I failed to set one up when opening the account so as not to link it to any of my other accounts. Thus I cannot use the two methods of password retrieval offered by MSN.
Long story short, I'm looking for any advice or solutions on how to solve the problem. I do not want to ditch the email altogether and establish a new one, if this is the case alot of important data will be lost.
Thanks in advance,
Nic.