Limitations of Account Live Password Reset Portal

 https://account.live.com/acsr is not the only portal to a password reset or unlock your computer, this portal has some limitations. If you don’t have access to your original recovery options i.e your recovery mail id and your recovery mobile number then you will not be able to reset your Microsoft account password. To overcome this limitation Microsoft has made a dedicated portal for that condition which can be accessed at account.live.com/acsr.

 Here is a full tutorial on how to recover Microsoft account password or my account password reset using account.live.com/acsr.

Difference between account.live.com/acsr and https://account.live.com/password/reset

 Although both account.live.com/acsr and https://account.live.com/password/reset are used to reset Microsoft account password but differences between these portals. Account live com acsr is the bottle that is specially used to recover in Microsoft account which password has been forgotten and you don’t have access to the recovery methods linked to that Microsoft account. On the other hand, https://account.live.com/password/reset is a portal where you can simply reset your Microsoft account password using your recovery phone number or Email address.

 If you are using the first portal you have to wait for up to 60 days, because the Microsoft account review team manually reviews your application to recover your Microsoft account. On the other hand, in the 2nd portal, you can easily reset your Microsoft account password within minutes.