Important: When you close your Microsoft account, your email and contacts are deleted from our servers and can't be recovered.If you use your Microsoft account with Xbox, Skype, OneDrive, or other Microsoft services, you'll no longer be able to access those services.

Notes: If you know your password, but just want to change it, go to account.microsoft.comSecurity tab, and select Change my password.. If you know your username and password but they have stopped working, read My username and password have stopped working.

The new Microsoft Edge will delete your browsing history, cookies, and site data, as well as passwords, addresses, and form data when you close all InPrivate windows. You can open an InPrivate window in different ways: Select and hold (right-click) the Microsoft Edge logo in the taskbar and select New InPrivate window.. In Microsoft Edge, select and hold (right-click) a link and select Open ...

If this screen appears, Microsoft 365 is installed as a one-year subscription or one-time purchase. A digital product key is transmitted to your PC, so you won't need or receive a printed product key.

Microsoft 365 subscribers have access to a growing library of thousands of royalty-free images, icons, illustrations, videos, and more to use in their documents, presentations, workbooks, and emails.

By default, Microsoft Edge automatically updates when you restart your browser. However, there are two situations where you may need to manually download an update:

If the User Account Control window appears, select the Yes button. If the User Account Control window asks for an admin user name and password, enter a user name and password of an account that has administrator privileges. Once the user name and password are entered, select the Yes button.. In the Go back to Windows 10 window that opens, select the Next button

Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025. After October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide free software updates from Windows Update, technical assistance, or security fixes for Windows 10.

If you know your password, but have lost access to some, but not all, of your security info: Sign in to the Advanced security options page of your Microsoft account. Sign in. Select Add a new way to sign in or verify then choose how you would like to receive security codes.. We'll send a security code to the new number or email to confirm.

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