- Go to the Reset your password page in the first step.
- After that you need to choose the reason because of which you need to retrieve your password and then click Next.
- Here in the third step you need to enter the email address you used when you made your Outlook account.
- Enter the characters you see on the screen (this lets us know you’re not a robot) also known as captcha, then
- click Next.
If you have security info on your account, Outlook will send a one-time code to the alternate password recovery phone number or email address you provided while creating your Outlook account or at a later stage. After you enter that code that you received on your password recovery phone or email id on the next screen, you’ll be able to make a new password.
This is how you can retrieve your Outlook account password.
How do I find my Outlook 2010 password?
If you forgot your Outlook password you can still check email in Outlook 2010 because Outlook 2010 remembers your password. Now the question is how can you find it? So by following below steps you can find your Outlook 2010 password:
- Open Outlook 2010. After that click on the File tab to access the Backstage view.
- In the next step click on Account Settings and then Add and remove accounts or change existing connection settings.
- In the Account Settings window, you need to double-click your target email account under the E-mail tab.You will see Change Account window coming up. You will see User Information, Server Information and Logon Information.
- If your email password is masked with some asterisk characters, you can go to next step to reveal the actual password hidden behind the password field. If the password field is empty, you need to contact your email provider to recover your password.
- Now you can download and install Password Recovery Bundle on your computer.
- Then launch Password Recovery Bundle and then after that click on Start Recovery button.
- Here you need to choose the Asterisk Password option from the drop-down menu list.
- Now you see that the Asterisk Password Recovery window appears. Click on the icon, drag the icon to the password field in Outlook 2010.
- Immediately you see the actual email account password hidden behind asterisks revealed.
Outlook password recovery number
You receive a code on your password recovery number in Outlook when you are resetting your Outlook account password. Using this code which you receive on your outlook password recovery phone number you can reset your Outlook account password.