User Accounts

[JW]

I'm running XP Home SP2 with IE7. I'm considering adding a second Windows
user account so that my wife and I can better separate our stuff. Each of us
have our own email accounts. With two user accounts, can I use Outlook and
her use Outlook Express without gumming up the works? Will this give each of
us separate address books? Thanks for your help.

 

[Malke]

I'm running XP Home SP2 with IE7. I'm considering adding a second Windows
user account so that my wife and I can better separate our stuff. Each of
us have our own email accounts. With two user accounts, can I use Outlook
and her use Outlook Express without gumming up the works? Will this give
each of us separate address books? Thanks for your help.

Yes to all questions.

Malke

 

[JW]

Yes to all questions.

Malke

Thanks!

 

[N. Miller]

I'm running XP Home SP2 with IE7. I'm considering adding a second Windows
user account so that my wife and I can better separate our stuff. Each of us
have our own email accounts. With two user accounts, can I use Outlook and
her use Outlook Express without gumming up the works? Will this give each of
us separate address books? Thanks for your help.

Be aware that in Windows XP the default email program setting is global. You
have to use a third party tool to have independent user defaults. If one of
you never clicks on "Mail To:" links, or engages in other activities which
invokes the default email client, you can set the default accordingly. If
you would like to set a "per user" default email client, here is a nifty
tool to do that:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultmail.htm