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Old 19-07-2007, 13:24   #1
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Want an @live.co.uk address, hurry up then!
Hi everyone,

There's a workaround for an @live.co.uk, if you're lucky, an @live.com address as well, so, here's how:
  1. Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a free account, as before.
  2. Now, you will be taken to a signup page that shows an @hotmail.com or @hotmail.co.uk domain for your email address.
  3. Go to the address bar, make hmnewuser.aspx read newuser.aspx and look along until you see &hm=1, after removing that hit enter.
  4. Your @hotmail magically becomes @live.
Done!

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Old 19-07-2007, 14:53   #2
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ive just registered my name @live.co.uk !!! and a lot more including victoriabeckham@live.co.uk and arcticmonkeys@live.co.uk maybe give them away to some lucky fans lol
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Old 19-07-2007, 15:09   #3
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Excellent. Works a treat!

Point 3 could be a touch clearer in that saying that you need specifically remove &hm1 and not anything else, but I'm just being pedantic.

Finally, I don't agree with littlehope's practise of creating addresses that you a) don't need b) not yours to use c) to 'give away'.
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Old 19-07-2007, 15:37   #4
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Wow that actually works - great forum member
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Old 19-07-2007, 15:39   #5
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ive just registered my name @live.co.uk !!! and a lot more including victoriabeckham@live.co.uk and arcticmonkeys@live.co.uk maybe give them away to some lucky fans lol
I agree with injured what is the point in creating emails addresses that you dont need and are not going to use.
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Old 19-07-2007, 15:56   #6
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Tom, you're a genius
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:00   #7
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Can I ask, what advantage does this give you?
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:05   #8
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Hi everyone,

There's a workaround for an @live.co.uk, if you're lucky, an @live.com address as well, so, here's how:
  1. Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a free account, as before.
  2. Now, you will be taken to a signup page that shows an @hotmail.com or @hotmail.co.uk domain for your email address.
  3. Go to the address bar, make hmnewuser.aspx read newuser.aspx and look along until you see &hm=1, after removing that hit enter.
  4. Your @hotmail magically becomes @live.
Done!

Tom
Surley it would have been better to post the final URL like this instead of instructions!!

p.s. There was instructions posted nearly a year ago with a hack to obtain any @live.?? address, I managed to get onelife@live.it which I think is quite cool!!
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:05   #9
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Red Arrow: The ability to get ( and keep! ) an @live address, before it gets released.

Uno: Why thank you sir.

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Old 19-07-2007, 16:06   #10
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Surley it would have been better to post the final URL like this instead of instructions!!

p.s. There was instructions posted nearly a year ago with a hack to obtain any @live.?? address, I managed to get onelife@live.it which I think is quite cool!!
The reason I didn't post the link is because sometimes it fails to load, and loads the get.live.com site.
And the instructions posted a year ago also worked, but only for a couple of days.

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Old 19-07-2007, 16:06   #11
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The potential choice of an E Mail address that you really want, but which wasn't available on all the other Free E Mail services you tried?
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:07   #12
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Yeah but what's so special about an @live address compared to any other email address?
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:09   #13
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Nothing - except the opportunity to get something you really like before the @

Poor old JohnSmith3544427786@ must be really fed up!
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:10   #14
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Erm... i got mine about 6 months ago - i've got my initials - two letters @ live.co.uk

As well as having many famous names @ live.co.uk

The live.co.uk addresses allow you to log into Xbox 360 online, as well as MSN Messenger etc. Just a new address because they are changing the names of everything soon, so you've more chance of getting a good address than the 30 million hotmail users.
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:11   #15
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Great but how do you get a @live.com address rather than a live.co.uk address?
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:11   #16
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Nothing - except the opportunity to get something you really like before the @

Poor old JohnSmith3544427786@ must be really fed up!
Oh well I signed up two accounts anyway, one with my real name and one with my alias. Luckily for me I got a gmail account early so I was quick enough to get an email address with my real name and no other characters, so I do see your point.
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:13   #17
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Of course you do
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:24   #18
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Thanks Tom for posting it here, but credit also goes to ScottIsAFool from LiveSide
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Old 19-07-2007, 16:57   #19
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Any way to make it work with Outlook Express? I currently use OE to access my Hotmail. However, Hotmail no longer allow new addresses to be used with OE. Is there a work around, or is it possible to set up Email Forwarding on my new address?
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Old 19-07-2007, 17:00   #20
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Nice! Thanks man.
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Old 19-07-2007, 17:57   #21
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Thanks Tom for posting it here, but credit also goes to ScottIsAFool from LiveSide
Exactly, Scott really isn't a fool!
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Old 19-07-2007, 19:16   #22
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Thanks for this. Incidentally I could only get it to work in IE and not Firefox
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Old 19-07-2007, 19:22   #23
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Odd.

No problems using Firefox when I did it earlier.
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Old 19-07-2007, 21:11   #24
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I did it in firefox
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Old 19-07-2007, 21:15   #25
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ar @ live.co.uk - WaHoo!
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