Сustomizing Your Hotmail Calendar

Hotmail has lots of useful features, and one of such features is, definitely, Hotmail calendar. This calendar allows you to keep being notified about recent events in the lives of close for you people, just track important events and holidays with comfort and convenience get reminded of something important, and know the birthdays of people included in your contact list. Yet, there are quite many settings of the Hotmail calendar, and this short, step-by-step article will disclose what are the most important settings and arrangements you should make.

1. Right after launching your browser, access the website of MSN: http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   
   
   
   In order to customize the Hotmail calendar of yours, you should enter the MSN website first
2. On that website, there will be a list of apps at the top. You should give a click to Outlook.com. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You should access your Hotmail account by typing your email address in the respective field on the main page of Outlook
3. That will lead you to the main page of Outlook, in the center of which you will see a field for entering email address. Type your Outlook address there and click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Provide your password and click on „Sign in"
4. That action should be followed by typing the password in the field on the next page and clicking on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   You need to access the window of options for customizing your Hotmail calendar
5. Once you have completed those actions, you will the page of your Hotmail account. Click on the mail settings button, placed to the right side of the page, at the top. In the menu that you have just triggered, click on "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   On these pages, you are given a large variety of options for customizing the calendar
6. After opening a large menu of settings on the left, you should go to "Calendar" > "Personalization." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This is a kind of localization of the Hotmail calendar
7. Let's start with the section of "Calendar appearance" at first. There, you should choose how the workweek of yours should be displayed (workdays and working hours), as well as you should configure other options regarding this matter. At the end, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Reminders are a very important feature that you cannot neglect
8. Go to the "Weather" section. There, you should specify whether to display weather or not, what is the temperature scale that should be applied, and locations to be displayed on your calendar. Click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   If you turn off the birthday calendar, the birthdays of your friends and everyone included in your contact list will not be displayed to you
9. Go to the section of "Notifications" > "Reminders." Customize the settings how you wish and, after having done with it, click on the "Save" button.
10. Proceed to "Other calendars" > "Birthday calendar." If a birthday calendar has been something unnecessary for you and you prefer not to see it, turn can disable it by checking near the certain box on this page. Click on "Save."