Outlook username & password?

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I am trying to setup Outlook on my new PC. I want to keep my identity, email
files and folders seperate and UN-viewable to my wife's Outlook login
identity, and vise-versa. I am running Windows XP-Home addition. Example,
on my old PC (running Win98) when either my wife or I clicked on the Outlook
Icon, Outlook would prompt the user to select an identity and password before
loading Outlook. The old Outlook (in Win98) kept each account's (identity)
email folders and files contained and viewable only to the identity you
selected. If I wanted to see my wife's email files and folders, I would have
to log in as her ... and vise-versa.

On my new PC (running WinXP - home addition) my wife and I can see each
other's email folders and files ...they seem to be shared. HOW DO I FIX
THIS?!?
 
dbl6gun said:
I am trying to setup Outlook on my new PC. I want to keep my
identity, email files and folders seperate and UN-viewable to my
wife's Outlook login identity, and vise-versa. I am running Windows
XP-Home addition. Example, on my old PC (running Win98) when either
my wife or I clicked on the Outlook Icon, Outlook would prompt the
user to select an identity and password before loading Outlook. The
old Outlook (in Win98) kept each account's (identity) email folders
and files contained and viewable only to the identity you selected.
If I wanted to see my wife's email files and folders, I would have to
log in as her ... and vise-versa.

On my new PC (running WinXP - home addition) my wife and I can see
each other's email folders and files ...they seem to be shared. HOW
DO I FIX THIS?!?
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Firstly, Outlook doesn't use identities, Outlook EXPRESS does. Which have
you got?
 
In the full version of Outlook (as opposed to Outlook Express), they're
called "Profiles". Each profile can have a seperate PST file that it
downloads into that can also be password protected.

To add multiple profiles, in the Control Panel, double click your Mail icon,
or right click your Outlook icon and select properties.

Either way, this can be done with the full version of Outlook or Outlook
Express.
 
In addition to what CVT Trainer said, if you and your wife have separate
Windows logons, you can keep your Outlook info completely separate from each
other that way.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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