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I have an address I used to create my M/Soft account, but I don’t want to use that address for mail @outlook.com. I also do not use my M/Soft account when I use my PC. I use a local account.

My question is whether it’s an issue to create another profile so the email address I use is @outlook.com. I see I can easily create another profile, but will doing this create issues for me when I use the outlook.com email address. I don’t wany anything sync’d nor do I want to pull in any email from the address for my M/Soft account or any other email addrersses for that matter. I simply want new outlook email account. Thanks.

Diane

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You don’t even have to create a new mail profile unless you want to. Just create the new Outlook.com address then add that outlook.com account to Outlook.*

--Joe

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Thank you so much. Appreciate the help.

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I do need some further assistance now.

I moved my stuff from my secondary email account @ Yahoo because of their issues and created the account at Outlook and have been using it a few days now and it serves its purpose for news reading and other unimportant internet stuff. I’m using it with my Chrome browser simply because I was able to create a desktop icon w/o major problems. I used it this morning, reading a few things. And now, I can’t access my account with the following message:
“outlook.live.com’s server DNS address could not be found.” I checked to see if the problem is just mine and apparently it is.

I’ve read some of the solutions at Microsoft tech site and they are recommending fooling around with changing the DNS to a google public DNS.

Can someone help me with this? I’m afraid I’m a total dork when it comes to network issues, DNS’s and things. Is there a fix that I can understand how to do? I did delete the cookies and rebooted the PC a couple of times.I also tried to access outlook with other browsers with the same results. Perhaps I should just look around for a secondary mail service that doesn’t give me such hassles. I already have a gmail account for semi important stuff, but I need another for non-important surfing, newsletters, etc

Thanks for any help

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Have you checked your desktop shortcut*properties to see which web address is being used?

--Joe

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It’s unlikely you need to change DNS – it was working fine.
As Joe said, check which address you are using and test it by trying to ping it from a Command Prompt – ping outlook.com.
Also tell us what the address is so we can test.

cheers, Paul

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The issue went away “voluntarily” after two days…the address I am using is https://outlook.live.com/owa. I’m not sure what the “owa” is. I will try the ping test next time I have issues, but I haven’t had a problem since. I don’t know if my use of Chrome to simply create a shortcut to the desktop could possibly be the cause, but it was the easiest way to get the icon on the desktop with just a click or two. Neither Opera my default browser or FFox offers a simple solution to creating a desktop icon for outlook mail that I could find. Anyhow, all is well.

Thank you both.

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owa=Outlook Web Access

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@ PeachesP

Open the link in your #7 post in IE11 then drag the icon from the left-side of IE’s address bar and drop it in a clear space on your desktop (that will create a shortcut to the Outlook.com login webpage).

46343-IE11_DesktopShortcut

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Thanks to B & C for helping.

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