Foreign language on my outlook account

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Foreign language on my outlook account

phil leslie 40

Hi, I logged into my Outlook email account today and the language has been changed from English to something that resembles Vietnamese??

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Answer 1

Hello,

Go to https://www.outlook.com and sign in. Click on the gear icon on the upper right to launch Settings.

Then use this image to guide you to the right place to change the display language:
Outlook Language

I will suggest that you go over this list to review and make sure there's no other area that's being compromised.

Please complete these steps on a computer, not on a smartphone or tablet.

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First, go to https://www.outlook.com and sign in.

Click the gear icon in the top right corner to open Settings.

Under Mail, review the following areas:

Rules

If any rules are listed, delete all of them.

Conditional formatting

If anything is set up there, delete it.

Forwarding and IMAP

If you see any entries or settings you did not create, remove them. Turn off POP and IMAP.

Junk

Review Safe sender and blocked list. If you don't recognize any, remove them.

After that, exit Settings and return to outlook.com.

Open the To Do section by clicking the blue checkmark icon on the left side. Delete anything there that was not created by you.

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Go to https://account.live.com.

Under Your info > Sign-in preferences, review all aliases on the account. If you see any alias you do not recognize, remove it.

Next, go to the Devices section of your Microsoft account and remove any devices you do not recognize.

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Please also do the following in Security section

Change your password

Enable two-step verification

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Go here https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access Click on "Don't allow" for anything you don't recognize.

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Then go to Security > Manage how I sign in and make sure all contact information belongs to you.

On that same page, scroll down to App passwords and remove any existing app passwords.

Also on the same page, click on Sign out everywhere. This is intended to disconnect any active sessions that may still be connected. Please note that this can take up to 24 hours to fully take effect.

Answer 2

Change the display language for Outlook on the web/Outlook.com from within your account settings.

Sign in to Outlook.com in a browser.
Select the Settings icon (gear) at the top of the page.
Select General > Language and time (the current language may be shown, but the menu position is the same).
In the Language (Country/Region) drop-down, choose English (the desired English variant).
Select Save.

If other Microsoft web pages (account, OneDrive, etc.) also appear in the wrong language, also check the Microsoft account language settings and browser language settings as described in the language settings article.

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