XP Professional Setup Advice

[KLH]

Greetings.

This is my first time posting to this newsgroup. If my
questions are more appropriate for a different newsgroup,
please point me in the right direction.

I finally broke down and ordered a new computer running XP
Professional. I currently use Windows 98se. I want to be
sure I understand how to set up the XP machine.

My primary question relates to setting up separate accounts.
If I set up a separate accounts, one for me and one for my
wife, will we each have separate Outlook Express folders?
We would not want that. Or would we each access the same
Outlook Express folders if using the same Outlook Express
Email Account? My second statement certainly sounds like
the logical thing, but I just want to make sure before I set
up the accounts. We share one email account and therefore

In general, why would separate accounts be of value on a
home machine. For fifteen-plus years now we have all used
the same machine and same account. It has worked smoothly
and I am inclined to leave well enough alone, unless there
is something I am missing. Opinions anyone?

Any other advice for a first-time user of XP Professional?
(I am still waiting for the computer to arrive. Ah Ha, it
arrived as I was wrapping this up...)

Thanks,

Ken

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You may be better off posting to the Outlook Express News Group. The gurus
there will be able to help you. Click on the below link:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

 

[D.Currie]

Greetings.

This is my first time posting to this newsgroup. If my
questions are more appropriate for a different newsgroup,
please point me in the right direction.

I finally broke down and ordered a new computer running XP
Professional. I currently use Windows 98se. I want to be
sure I understand how to set up the XP machine.

My primary question relates to setting up separate accounts.
If I set up a separate accounts, one for me and one for my
wife, will we each have separate Outlook Express folders?
We would not want that. Or would we each access the same
Outlook Express folders if using the same Outlook Express
Email Account? My second statement certainly sounds like
the logical thing, but I just want to make sure before I set
up the accounts. We share one email account and therefore

In general, why would separate accounts be of value on a
home machine. For fifteen-plus years now we have all used
the same machine and same account. It has worked smoothly
and I am inclined to leave well enough alone, unless there
is something I am missing. Opinions anyone?

Any other advice for a first-time user of XP Professional?
(I am still waiting for the computer to arrive. Ah Ha, it
arrived as I was wrapping this up...)

Thanks,

Ken

A lot of people set up separate accounts with the idea that the parents will
be the administrators and the kids will have limited accounts. In reality,
it's often the kids who have a better idea how to manipulate the computer.

It's also handy if you do vastly different things on the computer, you want
to keep files separate, or you like to organize things differently.

If you use the same programs and files, it probably doesn't matter if you
share an account or not.

 

[Guest]

Outlook express stores data in hidden files with the .dbx extension. I have
found no way to share these files with different users. However Outlook
stores its data in a hidden file with the .pst extension and outlook gives
the ability to modify the path of this file. If you were to store this file
in a central loacation say C:\ , then you can alter the delivery location of
the file and both of you can use the same data. The version of outlook
depends on how to set this up.