MSN Email: Login, Issues, Troubleshooting, and much more

Email or electronic mail is a software program that is use to send either personal or professional messages to each other. There are several email clients available like Gmail, Yahoo mail, MSN email, and much more. In addition to sharing messages with each other, an email program also enables us to share images, videos, documents, etc. Some of the email services are free whereas some are not and require you to pay a certain amount once the quota is exhauster.

Amongst several available email services, the MSN email service or Outlook is one of the popular email services owned by Microsoft. In fact, many users often confuse it with Hotmail due to the similarities that the two email services possess. If you are new to it and want to know about its login, related issues, and much more, keep reading and every sort of question will be answered in forthcoming passages.

What is MSN Email?

MSN or Microsoft Network is a web portal that consists of several services and apps. For email purposes, it has an app i.e. Outlook, likewise, for messenger it has Skype, and for searching on the web it offers Bing. So, in order to use MSN email, you will have to use Outlook as they both are the same.

If you are new to MSN email and want to know the process of creating an account on it, read the below passage.

How to Create an MSN Email Account?

In order to use MSN email, it is require to have an account on it, and to create an account on MSN email (or Outlook), all you have to do is follow the below-mention steps.

Open up the web browser (eg, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc)
Go to the MSN homepage from here
Click on Outlook as shown below in the image

A new window will open up, similar to the one depicted below

Click on Create free account button

A new window will open up asking you to enter the New Email

Click on the Next button
Now, a new window will come up, asking you to create the password

Click on the Next Button
A window will come up asking you to enter first name and last name

Enter your birthdate

By following the above steps you will have your account created on Outlook.

After creating an account, it’s time to login MSN. So let’s start with this.

Log in to MSN Email via Web

After having discussed the way of creating an account on MSN email i.e, Outlook, how to login the same follows the pathway and to achieve this follow the below steps.

Open up the web browser
Go to Outlook from here
Click on the Sign in button, as shown below in the image

A new window will be open, asking you to Enter Email, Phone or Skype

After entering the details, click on the Next button
Now, a new webpage with a password box will open up, enter your password there

Click on Sign in button

This way, if you entered all the credentials correctly, you will have yourself logged in to the account successfully.

Log in to MSN Email via Mobile App

If you want to login to MSN email i.e. Outlook using a mobile app, find below the steps to achieve it.

Download the Outlook app (use Google Play store to download if using Android and use app store if having an iPhone)
After having installed the outlook app, tap on it to open
Click on Add Account
Now enter the email address
Tap on continue
Now enter the Password
Tap on Submit

After following the above mention steps, you will get logged in to your outlook on the mobile device.

If everything is processed correctly or you did not face any problem while logging in, it is quite good but what if you could not log in, in that case, follow the below guide as everything relating to login issues has been mention.

Fix MSN Email Login Issues

If you are facing a problem while logging in to the Outlook account, chances are you might be facing any of the issues mentioned below. So, stay tuned with the forthcoming passages and get the answer to every query.

Forgot Password

While attempting to login to Outlook, if somehow you typed the wrong password or have forgotten the password, try resetting it. In order to reset the password follow the below-mentioned steps.

Open any web browser
Go to Outlook homepage from here
Click on Sign in button
Enter Username
Click on Next button
Click on Forgotten your password, as depicted below in the image

Now you will be ask to receive the security code with available options
Choose any of the options (these options will differ from user to user)
Once chosen, click on Get Code
A security code will be sent to you, copy it
Enter the received code into the required field

This way you will get your password reset.

Browser is lagging

If your browser is lagging and making accessing the internet cumbersome, try clearing the cache or temporary files by following the below steps.

Open up the browser
Click on three dots (in the case of google chrome), try opening the menu in other browsers
Go to Settings
Click on Privacy and security
Click on clear browsing data
Choose time range to All time
Click on Clear Data

This way you will get your browser clean up and as a result, the speed of the browser will improve to an extent.

Poor Internet

If you are unable to access Outlook or the emails are not being sent or receive, chances are you might be having poor internet connectivity. In order to improve the speed of the internet, contact your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and ask them to improve the same for you. There is nothing you can do at your end to get rid of this.

Server Is Down

If Outlook is becoming unresponsive and you are not able to send the messages or receive them. In this case, the server can be the main culprit, and in order to check it you may use the website titled Downdetector (You may go from here).

So this was a brief about MSN email login. Everything from creating an account to its login issues has been cover up. While logging in to the MSN email, if you still feel difficulty, you may try contacting customer care either using an email address or phone number, whichever suits you the most.