I need some serious help! My mother died very suddenly a few weeks ago. I need access to her Hotmail account so I can get some information I need for the mortgage company. (I'm not trying to do anything illegal; I just want to find the information on her ****** life insurance and proof that the house is supposed to be passed on to me, and she had that in an online account with the mortgage company. I can't find the piece of paper now, and I want to get into it and change the password in case an unscrupulous relative has come across it.) I know her email address, and the first letter of her password, but that's it.

I have the computer she normally used to log into her Hotmail account (with Windows XP and IE6), and I downloaded "Cain & Abel" to try to retrieve the password from the computer, but I couldn't make much sense from the results and even after reading the help file, I'm still lost. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.