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My wife and I share a laptop at home.
Currently she uses oulook express for all home email and I use outlook to
access my work email accounts.
The problem with creating our home email as an account in my outlook2003 is
that she checks her email during the day and I dont want her pulling my work
email as well.
I am surmizing the simplest solution would be to install another outlook
2003 and put in the home account and label the .exe Icon as Home account.
With all the new licensing nutiness can I install 2 copies of outlook 2003
and how so?

My question is what is the best way for me to set up 2 seperate outlook
programs so that my wife does not download my work email during the business
day when I am accessing or need to access it at work?
 
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SHaunBAxter said:
My wife and I share a laptop at home.
Currently she uses oulook express for all home email and I use
outlook to access my work email accounts.
The problem with creating our home email as an account in my
outlook2003 is that she checks her email during the day and I dont
want her pulling my work email as well.
I am surmizing the simplest solution would be to install another
outlook 2003 and put in the home account and label the .exe Icon as
Home account. With all the new licensing nutiness can I install 2
copies of outlook 2003 and how so?

My question is what is the best way for me to set up 2 seperate
outlook programs so that my wife does not download my work email
during the business day when I am accessing or need to access it at
work?
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All you need to do is set up two different Outlook profiles and set up
Outlook to prompt you for the profile at startup, or, if you're using a
multiuser-aware OS like XP/2k, use different Windows logins.
 
SHaunBAxter said:
My wife and I share a laptop at home.
Currently she uses oulook express for all home email and I use outlook to
access my work email accounts.
The problem with creating our home email as an account in my outlook2003
is
that she checks her email during the day and I dont want her pulling my
work
email as well.
I am surmizing the simplest solution would be to install another outlook
2003 and put in the home account and label the .exe Icon as Home account.
With all the new licensing nutiness can I install 2 copies of outlook 2003
and how so?

My question is what is the best way for me to set up 2 seperate outlook
programs so that my wife does not download my work email during the
business
day when I am accessing or need to access it at work?
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You can always try but I very much doubt you can have two copies of the same
program- there are registry keys that refer to outlook not outlook1,
outlook2.... Outlook does have a help system- check out user profiles, they
are there to . And a web search will bring up lots of results.

But she uses Outlook Express. You use Outlook. They are different programs
so handle mail separately. Why change if it already does what you are
asking to do?
 
SHaunBAxter said:
My wife and I share a laptop at home.
Currently she uses oulook express for all home email and I use
outlook to access my work email accounts.
The problem with creating our home email as an account in my
outlook2003 is that she checks her email during the day and I dont
want her pulling my work email as well.
Click to expand...

In addition to Lanwench's advice to create a second profile, a better
approach might be to create separate Windows usernames for the two of you.
That way, neither can interfere with the other.
 
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