Daily Archives: February 12, 2005

Cheat your way to 250MB of Hotmail storage

Still haven’t switched to Gmail bcos your address is too valuable? Still wondering why you have only 2MB of storage while the Hotmail page claims to be giving 250MB? If u read the fine print, you’ll come to know that it is only offered in the US… I have found a way to get a 250MB account without changing your email address.

All you have to do is to turn off Messenger and sign in through the Hotmail website. Go to options/personal and than My profile. Change your country code to USA and pick Florida, use 33332 as the zip code. After you change this, go to update than continue. While you are still logged into Hotmail go here and deactivate your account. Don’t worry – all your mails will remain safe. Now you have to go to hotmail.com and log with your username and password and you will automatically re-activate your account.When you log in you will see that you already have a 25MB account while it’s supposed to upgrade to 250MB soon. You can go to your profile and change your country back to India if you want. So now, u have the same settings as before, only 125 times more storage!

What better feeling can you have than to trick Microsoft!