If your work or school email address is the only one listed, enter your personal email address, or get a new one from Microsoft, and select Add email or Add phone number.If you already have a personal email address listed there, you can skip this step.Select Manage how you sign in to Microsoft.Sign in to the Your Info page of your Microsoft Account.To change the email address associated with your personal account:

Your Visual Studio or MSDN subscriptions are linked to your Microsoft account.

You could lose access to some developer tools.

You are part of our Xbox Developer community.

You use a Windows phone running Windows 8.

Learn more about how to close your account.You may not want to rename your Microsoft account if: Once your new account is created, you can close your original Skype account if you no longer want that account active, but this will also close your Microsoft account. This information is for your records, but you will not be able to import any of your exported information or contacts into your new Skype account.

Please make sure to export your Skype files and chat history, as well as your Skype contacts from your Skype account prior to closing.

Your new Skype Name will be a string of letters and numbers autogenerated by Skype when your account is created which cannot be modified.

There are a few things to keep in mind before you create a new account: If you want a new or different Skype Name, you will need to create a new account. Learn more about how to change your Skype Display name. However, you can change your Skype Display Name which is shown in search results along with your Skype Name (unique identifier).

This is a unique identifier that is used to help others find you in Skype search, which cannot be changed or modified. Your Skype Name is the username that was created when you first joined Skype that may have been autogenerated for you.

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