How do I disable the Windows Live avatar (a photo) in my outgoing email messages?

Hi Jim M,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community forum. I'm sorry for the delayed response. I just like to inform you that Outlook.com as designed - will show your profile photo on your sent emails. There is no option to disable this.

If you want, you can remove the photo set up on your profile page to address this. Here are the steps:

1. Login your account at https://profile.live.com

2. On the left hand side, click Change picture

3. Click Remove

4. A notification message will pop out, hit Remove

If you questions or other concerns about your account's profile, then feel free to post back here.

Thank you!

Hi Jorge,

Thank you for posting in this forum. let me assist you in your inquiry about removing the image on your profile account.

The option "change picture" is just below the image box. You can see it easily, and it is highlighted in blue color. If you still can't see the option, please try to use other browser and see if the issue is also the same there.

Please let us know of the result, so that we can assist you furthermore if necessary.

Thank you.

Hi Richard Newman 1 ,

I understand that someone else's picture appears in your email account, let me assist you with your concern.

Please be informed that it is possible you have 3rd party networks connected in your Outlook.com account. Kindly check if you have any connected service on your account and disable it by following the steps below:

1. Sign in to https://account.live.com
2. Click on Permissions tab
3. Under “Manage the other accounts you've connected” click Manage other accounts
4. Click on Remove this connection completely
5. Click Remove

I hope this will help you with your concern and feel free to post back.

Thank you,

Hi Richard Newman 1,

Please be informed to properly assist you with your concern I’ll need some information from you in a private message I just sent you. Sign in here and click on “You have a private reply to this message“, which is highlighted in red, to view the message.

Your patience is highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Hi Jim M,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community forum. I'm sorry for the delayed response. I just like to inform you that Outlook.com as designed - will show your profile photo on your sent emails. There is no option to disable this.

If you want, you can remove the photo set up on your profile page to address this. Here are the steps:

1. Login your account at https://profile.live.com

2. On the left hand side, click Change picture

3. Click Remove

4. A notification message will pop out, hit Remove

If you questions or other concerns about your account's profile, then feel free to post back here.

Thank you!

I wanna remove my avatar and process described do not work at all .... avatar keeps re-apearing over and over again - It's like a virus. Didn't know that updating a picture is that hard to implement!

Hi MarcinMazurek,

Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. I understand that you want to remove your avatar and we apologize that the steps provided from the previous post didn't work for you. Let me assist you on this.

In order to investigate the issue that you're having, we need some information from you. Kindly provide the following information.

- Affected account.

- Is there a third party services added to your account? Like Facebook, Tweeter or LinkedID.

Note: For security purposes, please post the account information on the private message area I have provided above your post. You also need to login to this Forum to view the private message link.

We are looking forward to your response on this matter.

Thanks.

Gee, wouldn't it be simpler (and improve customer satisfaction, to boot) if Microsoft would just stop foisting these cutesies upon us without recourse?  It's bad enough that someone detached from the real world dreams up these "features," but to require their use is unforgivable.  Please just give us a way to opt out of these unwanted and unhelpful "bloatations".

I found this thread via a Google search for "outlook.com get rid of avatar".  It was the very first link, and the topic of this thread addresses my query perfectly.  Unfortunately, yet again, I find that Microsoft has chosen not to honor the requirements of a significant portion of the user base.