Setting up a free email account

The free email accounts from the big three are really good. Whether your choose Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or Gmail, you'll be content with the great service they all provide for an impossible to be beat price -- they are ALL free. You don't have to only have one email address (although that does sometimes makes life easier). So go ahead and get started, with this site's favored one, Gmail:

1. To create an account, first open up your web browser and surf over to www.gmail.com


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2. Click on Signup for Gmail.



3. On this "Create an Account" page, please enter your information.

Your Login Name will be used for your email address. You can click on the "check availability" button to see if anyone else has used the name you want yet. Popular names are often taken (like jasondavis). Try adding numbers to make it unique (like jasondavis1974 or jason74davis).
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4. Password: Make it something you will remember! It must be at least 8 characters (letters and/or numbers and/or symbols) long. The password strength indicator will let you know how secure your password is. For hints about make a secure password, click the Password strength link.



imageRenter your password: In order to make sure you typed it correctly, type it again. The passwords in both boxes must match exactly.

You may wish to remove the checkmark next to "Remember me on the this computer." (Highly imagerecommended if you are on a public computer -- you don't want anyone else to have access to your account.)



You may want to remove the checkmark next to "Enable Search History." This will remember anything you search in Google while you are logged in to your email and/or Google.

Make Sure you Remember your Username and Password. Write them down somewhere safe if necessary. You will need these every time you want to access your email.


5. Security Questions: Choose one of the questions in the drop down box (click on the arrow to see the choices and click on the one you want).

Make sure it is a question no one else knows the answer to, but one you will remember.


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Answer: Now type your answer to the question you selected in the next box.


Secondary E-mail: If you don't have another email address, leave this blank. If you do have another email address, you can enter it here.


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Location
: This is set to United States; if you will use your Gmail account primarily from another country, click on the arrow and select that country.


6. Word Verification: Type the letters you see on the screen into the box. (They will be different from the example printed here.)
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7.

Terms of Service:
Read the terms of service and click on "I accept. Create my account."
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8. On the Congratulations page, click on "I'm ready --show me my account" and you will be shown your new Gmail account.
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9. To write an email, click on "Compose Mail" under the Gmail logo (top left).
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The next time you need to get into your email, go to www.gmail.com


You will need your username and password. Do you remember yours?

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