Problem with Email on User Account

[OliversMum]

Please bear with me as im not technically minded and hope this garbled
message will be understood :0)

My son wanted me to set up MSN Messenger on our PC - so I set it up on
my user account for him, but now when we turn the PC on and the User
Account screen comes up - its showing 1 unread email - when I click on
that balloon, it shows my sons email address. I expecting that as I
set up MSN Mess whilst logged into my user account, but with his email
address, it has attached his email account to my User Account.

Gosh I hope you can make sense of that :0~

Basically - I dotn want his unread emails showing under my user account
and need to fathom out how to detach this - ive gone into Contol Panel
and under my User Account when you click on "change net passport" it
shows his email.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - perhaps if I could disable the
net passport part of his email account?

Thanks in advance :0)

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Install TweakUI and you can turn that annoying behavior off:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Or, you can manually edit the registry as described here:

Overview of Mail Notification Display on WinXP Welcome Screen [Q304148]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304148

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Larry Samuels]

Export and delete the following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\[Your
E-Mail Address]\Message Count

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\Messs
ageExpiryDays

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Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
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