Find Your Microsoft Account Recovery Email

What is my Microsoft Account Recovery email? Hi, everyone. Leo Notenboom here for askleo.com. One of the important parts about keeping your accounts online secure is to have and keep up to date recovery information. The recovery email is the email address that the service then sends information to that basically allows you to prove you are who you say you are and then it's going to get you back into your account. What I'm going to look at today is where to find your existing recovery email address in outlook. Com, and how to set it if you don't have one already, or how to change it if it's no longer valid. Here we are at outlook. Com. I've logged into my email, so I'm in my Microsoft account, and in fact, that's what we need to manage. I'll click on the profile icon in the upper right, and then click on My Microsoft Account. On the left-hand side, we'll click on Security. Of course, you may be asked along the way to further confirm you are who you say you are. That's important because it prevents someone from walking up to your logged-in machine and doing what we're about to We are finally in Security. We'll hit advanced security options. If all you're looking to do is know what your email address, what your recovery email address already is set to, this is where you go, because it'll show you right there what email address is associated with it. Now, if you don't have one, or if you just want to add another one, then the thing to do is down here, click on Add a new way to sign in or verify. You could then use an app, email a code, use your Windows PC, which is Windows Hello, or use a hardware key. Since this article is specifically about email addresses, that's what we're going to do. We will enter that, and I will now add askleotest@gmail. Com as another recovery email address this account. You need to prove that you have access to that account by entering the code that they then send to it. Over here in Gmail, we have Microsoft Account Security Code. I'm just going to copy it to my clipboard so that I can come back here and enter it. Boom. There it is, this new email code, alternate recovery address. That's how you add one. What if you want to change one? Changing one turns out to be really, really easy. Let's say now that I wanted to get rid of this Ask Leo test to one.