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I believe you're already logged into your Google Account in Google Chrome which keeps your logged-in status. Google will use your login credentials for Google Chrome to allow you to access your Gmail without requiring you to login again. To force a login each time, you may wish to logout of your Google Account from Google Chrome.
Make sure you either have a secondary email account specified for your gmail account or
Follow the cant access your account? link from the Gmail log-in page.
Make sure i forgot password is selected.
Type your full Gmail email address under Email address.
Click Continue.
If you have set up a secondary email address for recovery:
Make sure the desired email address is selected following Get a password reset link at my recovery email: under Choose how to get back into your account..
Click Continue.
Open the Google Password Assistance message in the selected email account from Google Account Recovery.
Follow the link under To initiate the password reset process for your ___ Google Account.
If you have set up a security question for Gmail password recovery:
Make sure Answer my security question is selected under Choose how to get back into your account..
Type the answer to your recovery question following the question.
If you have set up phone number for account recovery:
Make sure the desired phone number is selected following Get a verification code (via SMS) on my phone: under Choose how to get back into your account..
Click Continue.
Open the SMS text message from Google that begins with Your Google verification code.
Type the verification code form the text message on the Google Account Recovery page under Enter that code here.
Click Continue.
Enter the desired new password under both New password: and Re-enter password.
Click Reset password.
If you have used your Gmail account in the past five days but have not specified a secondary email address, you'll have to wait for these five days to pass.
Are you using Gmail web mail or are you using maybe Thunderbird email client to access your Gmail account? They have application-specific passwords.
Google search: gmail password separate from google password
How did you attempt to open it, and specifically what problems do you encounter. Ensure that you type in the correct gmail address, ie, http://www.gmail.com. Also, is your user name and password properly entered? Know that passwords are case sensitive, so if I had a password of say 'mypassword', and I enter 'Mypassword' or 'MYPASSWORD', or anything that contians upper case, it wont open. If you have forgotten your password, click on the 'forgotten password' link, and you would be directed on how to reset your password.
But if all that is not the problem, try opening gmail in another browser apart from Google chrome. You could try mozilla firefox, or internet explorer.
I would advise changing your gmail password, but first, run a spyware/malware and virus scan. Running the scan first will verify that you do not have any keyloggers, trojan horses, or viruses on your computer. Then, once those are complete and your computer is deemed safe, change your gmail account password.
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