Nokia Lumia 625 Question (Live & Hotmail)

[Anonymous]

I just got my new phone above yesterday.

It requested me to set up a Live (Microsoft) Account.

Somehow I have ended up with a hotmail and live account but with the same e-mail address. In the phone and on the tile screen i have an outlook box and hotmail box for the same e-mail address.

But this is not the question I have.

I am a bit of a freak when it comes to calendar enteries. I have put in my contacts and calendar enteries into my phone but on the settings for the calendar it asks if what account I want active i.e. the hotmail or live account. If I have both accounts active I get duplicate calendar enteries.

What account should I scrub but bearing in my mind that any contacts or calendar enteries get synched with outlook which essentially stores them as back-up.

Hope this is understandable for someone!

Thanks,

Paul.

[MI5]

Go into Settings >Email & Accounts and delete the Hotmail account - It's not needed.

[Anonymous]

i should have said there is a microsoft account and a live account - which one should i delete then please

[MI5]

I just have a Microsoft account which I though was what you meant, either way, no need for Hotmail as all emails & calandars come through Outlook.com and will also sync to your Gmail account if you have one.

[Anonymous]

its says i have the following:

microsoft account in brackets hotmail

live account

i am so confused!

[MI5 · Accepted solution]

OK, so it says your MS account is the Hotmail one?
I guess when you signed in to MS you didn't use a previous email identity and you created a new one?
If so, you need to keep that one and remove the "Live" one.

[Anonymous]

ok so removed the live one and it worked

checked outlook and it works perfectly and syncs my calendar enteries and contacts thank you for all your help!

[MI5]

Usually you would use an existing email to create your MS account so that was the confusion at first, but, good result in the end.

[Anonymous]

thanks for your help