Get the Hotmail Sign in English version page
By default, the Windows Live Hotmail sign in page will be displayed in the language deemed most appropriate based on your system settings, your location, previous users to login to their email account, etc. But you can explicitly tell Hotmail that you want to see the sign in screen in a particular language, as you'll learn in this tutorial. We will show you how to do this from your own computer, where you have the ability to bookmark websites and web pages (add them to your favorites, which is the simplest approach), but also how to proceed if you want to sign in to Hotmail from a public computer.
Display the Windows Live sign up page and sign in form in English
In case you are not already seeing it in English, follow these steps to force the language:
- First, type "www.hotmail.com" or "www.live.com" in your web browser's address bar, and hit Enter. As soon as you do, the browser launches that page, and Windows Live will redirect you automatically to the version of the sign in screen is best suited for you:
- As you can tell from the screenshot above, you are no longer simply looking at "
hotmail.com" or "live.com", but instead at a particular web page that contains a lot of (what appears to be) gibberish - well, that gibberish is what determines in what language you will see the Hotmail sign in page and sign up form - it's normal, and the first step during Hotmail login.
- To force Windows Live to display your login options in English, you simply need to add a piece of code at the end of the "URL" (internet address), or replace it inside the address bar.
- If you are on your own computer, just type "
hotmail.com/?&mkt=en-us" in the address bar, and hit Enter on your keyboard to load the sign in page. Regardless of your operating system's current language settings (applies to Windows, Mac, or Linux), this will ensure that you are seeing the sign in form in English! (American English, if you use "en-us").
- You can then bookmark / add to your favorites the page that will load once you hit Enter or click on the Go button / arrow button of your web browser. From that point on, using this saved link will ensure that you see Hotmail Sign in only in English!
- That's all you have to do to login to Hotmail in English; note that this does not affect the language of your actual Windows Live Hotmail account and profile, which can also be changed to English: learn how to change Hotmail language, in just a few clicks!
Hotmail Sign in Tip: if you want American English, use "en-us"; for Australian English, use "en-au"; for British English, use "en-gb", or "en-ca" for Canada, etc.
If you are trying to login to Hotmail on a public computer (from which you don't have access to your favorites and bookmarks), you just need to remember the URL shown above, and manually type it! Besides the Hotmail Sign in screen, you can also use Hotmail.com in English.
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