How to recover email password simply and quickly

If you've lost access to your email account and need to learn how to how to recover password email on platforms Outlook, gmail, Yahoo! ou UOL, here is the right place for it! Currently, the platforms bring special functions developed to help the user to recover the access to the account in a simple and fast way, as well as there are programs, such as Recovery Toolbox, which can also help you. In this post, the showmetech prepared a tutorial explaining, in detail, how to recover the password in the most used email providers by Brazilians. Check out!

Outlook

Change your email password on Outlook It's as easy as resetting any Microsoft account password (like hotmail): just follow the instructions to verify your identity and get a new email password.

Step 1: Open Outlook.com in your web browser and select Log in;

Step 2: Enter your email address and then click Next;

Step 3: Select option Forgot your password?;

Step 4: if you have not registered any password recovery method (such as your cell phone number or two-factor identification in Microsoft Authenticator, for example), enter a contact email (that you have access to) in the indicated location, enter the characters displayed in the image and click Next;

Step 5: Access this email, copy the code you received from Microsoft, paste it in the indicated place and then click Check;

Step 6: enter the personal information, in order to validate your request and click on Next;

Step 7: Here you can shorten the recovery if you remember old passwords of your email account, you can write up to two, in the two upper fields (in red);

If you don't remember an old password or haven't changed it ever, don't worry, follow the next steps: if your email is associated with other services, such as Outlook, Skype or Xbox, check them. In the field below, also check if you have linked the email to Microsoft services (such as Microsoft Office) click Next;

Step 8: In the next step you will have to wait for a new email from Microsoft. When you receive it, open it and click on the link (which is hidden in the screenshot) in order to proceed;

Step 9: After clicking on the link you will be redirected to a page and you will have to create a new password, which must be at least 8 characters long. Then click on Continue (which is located in Next, in the screenshot);

Ready! You now have a new password for your email. To log in, just go to the home page of login, entering your email address and your new password.

gmail

If you forgot your password gmail or are having a problem accessing your account, just ask for the reset of Google passwords to change or reset it to Gmail. You can also change your password at any time. It is worth remembering that the Gmail password is the same for all Google services (such as Youtube, Google Play and Drive). This means that if you remember the password for some of these services, it can be used to access your Gmail account.

If in your case it is necessary to change the password, don't worry, because the process is very simple and quick to do. However, it is important to note that you need to know your old password for the procedure to be completed. If you don't know, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Access the recovery, enter your email or phone number and select the option Next to follow the steps on how to recover Gmail account;

Step 2: Then Google will give you two options to locate your email: through your phone or your registered recovery email;

You will receive a unique code via SMS or email to proceed with the recovery process. Enter it in the space provided to proceed;

Step 3: Create a new password, repeat it in the field below and then click save password;

Ready! You will now have access to your email using the new password you have just created.

Yahoo!

With a recovery email or cell phone, you can create a new password for the one you forgot in Yahoo! The step by step is very simple. Shall we check it out?

Step 1: enter the Yahoo! and click on the option Forgot username?;

Step 2: Then you will be able to use the mobile number registered in the account or by the recovery email. Type one of the options and click Continue;

Step 3: after selecting one of the options you will receive a message to confirm that the number or email is correct. If correct, click Yes send me a code;

Step 4: After confirming the code via email or SMS, you will be redirected to a page where you will have to create a new password. With the password created, click on Continue;

Ready! You now have a new password and can access your email normally.

UOL

In the case of UOL, you can recover your password with your CPF or CNPJ. Providing one of these data, you will be able to recover the password by the e-mail or cell phone registered in the account. It is worth mentioning that to have an account at UOL you can have the account linked with third-party e-mail.

Step 1: Na UOL home page click Forgot your password?;

Step 2: you will be redirected to another page where the email, CPF or CNJP linked to your UOL account must be provided. After providing the necessary information, click Continue;

Step 3: in the next step you must choose the linked e-mail or cell phone for you to receive a link to recover your password

Step 4: after selecting one of the options, the SAC will show some characters of the option you chose (in the example below it was the email). If correct, click Submit link;

Pace 5: when accessing the email or SMS, you will receive a link that you must click on or on the option Redefine password;

Step 6: After accessing the link you will be redirected to the page where a new password must be made. Repeat the new password in the field below and click Redefine password;

Okay, now you will have access to all the features of your UOL account.

Recovery Toolbox

O Recovery Toolbox is a program developed to quickly and easily recover the password of any e-mail that at some point was configured for access via Microsoft Outlook. The great advantage of this program is that it is compatible with any version of the e-mail manager from ecosystem, working even with the oldest ones. 

After installing the program, just choose which email you want to recover and, in a matter of moments, the Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Password will show you the password for that account. In addition, the program also allows you to reset the password for that account, allowing you to enter a new password that is easier to remember.

Now, if you are an “old school” user who remembers using Outlook at some distant point in your life but, for some reason, the Recovery Toolbox can't find your account, it's possible that what you actually used was the Outlook Express – a program that worked just like Microsoft Outlook, but with a smaller number of resources and tools, and that could be found in the Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP e Windows Server 2003.

In this case, you must use the Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Express Password. This program works exactly the same as Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Password, but it has algorithms created specifically for recovering passwords from Outlook Express, allowing you to recover the password even for accounts you haven't accessed for a long time.

Recover password through browser

Now, if you don't usually use the Outlook and only access the e-mail through your internet browser, it is possible to recover a forgotten password in the browser itself. Of course, this only works if you allow it to remember your password the first time it tries to access your email – something that probably would have happened if you forgot your password, otherwise you would have had to re-enter it every time you tried to access your email. email and would probably remember it.

If you use the browser the Microsoft Edge, the procedure is very simple: all you need to do is enter the browser settings menu and, on the home screen, click on the “Passwords” button. You will be taken to a list of all the passwords that have been saved by the browser. So, just look for the email service (like Gmail or Yahoo) that you forgot the password for in that list and click on the button that looks like an “eye”, and the saved password for that service will be shown to you.

No Google Chrome, you need to access the browser menu in the top right corner and click on Settings. Then, in the opened tab, you need to access the left side menu “Autofill and passwords” and then, in the new tab that opens, you can manage all your keys. In this part, you can register new websites and their respective passwords, in addition to being able to write your name/surname and notes so that you can recognize each one in the future.

Now at Mozilla Firefox, to have access to saved passwords, it is necessary to enter the “Logins and Passwords” menu, which can be accessed directly from the button indicated by three parallel horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the screen. Within this menu, in the left part you will have a list of all domains for which you have a saved password. So, just choose which service you forgot your password for and then click on the button that looks like an “eye”, and the password for that service will be revealed.

So, although forgetting a password is quite common, recovering it has become much easier with the help of browsers that make a list of all saved passwords and programs like Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Password, which allows you to recover passwords even for email accounts that have not been accessed for years.

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reviewed by Glaucon Vital in 02 / 01 / 24.