How-to: Link 2 Hotmail accounts / Windows Live IDs

You have more than one Windows Live ID — for example one in the office and one privately?  You can link both with each other.  If you do that, you can sign in at a Windows Live website like Hotmail once and access information in both accounts.

• Open http://home.live.com/ in your browser.

• Sign in with your first Windows Live ID.

• On the top right, click on your account name.  A drop-down menu appears.

• In the menu, click the Link other accounts entry.

• You may be asked to re-enter your Windows Live password.

• Click the Link an existing Windows Live ID hyperlink.

• Enter the password of your first Windows Live ID, and the e-mail address as well as the password for the second Windows Live ID, the one you are going to link.

• Click the Link button.

• Now on the top right, click your name.  You can access both linked accounts from there now — without additional sign-in.