How to close a Hotmail or Windows Live

There may be several reasons why at some point you decide to close a Hotmail or Windows Live: perhaps because the amount of spam you receive has become unbearable, because you want to do some 'order among all e-mail addresses registered in a few years' everywhere, etc. ...

Of course, Microsoft makes the most discouraging such "initiatives", which is why the functionality to close a Windows Live email account is quite hidden and not immediately be identified.

In any case, never mind, if you do not want to waste time is sufficient if you follow the following simple steps and in the blink of an eye, your account will become only a memory:

1. Go to Windows Live with the account to eliminate
2. If you need to back up your contacts and addresses of all the major email forwarded to another mail account
3. Go to page http://mail.live.com/mail/CloseAccountConfirmation.aspx
4. Click on "Close account" and you're done

In hopes of not having lost completely, however Micrisift will give you the opportunity to reactivate your account, then logging within 270 days, but all functionality will be inhibited instantaneously.