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Old April 26th, 2004, 04:41 AM
SW
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We have a family machine running XP with 3 user accounts 1 administrator and 2 limited accounts. I’ve installed Outlook 2003 while logged in as the administrator. I’ve set the HD to share documents, but what I really want is to share programs and keep individual documents private. Do I need to install Outlook for each user separately or is there something I could do so we can all share the same programs.
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Old April 26th, 2004, 12:38 PM
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Programs are installed on the PC for all users. Some applications have the
option in the installer to make it only available to the one who is
installing it or to everyone on the computer.

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We have a family machine running XP with 3 user accounts 1 administrator
and 2 limited accounts. I've installed Outlook 2003 while logged in as the
administrator. I've set the HD to share documents, but what I really want
is to share programs and keep individual documents private. Do I need to
install Outlook for each user separately or is there something I could do
so we can all share the same programs.



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Old April 26th, 2004, 01:51 PM
Dave Olley
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Roady is absoloutly correct, and further to that, a brief note on PST files.

If outlook is installed on an XP machine it creates a storage file containing the mail and mail folder settings, mail rules etc. This is creted individually for each user when they first use Outlook.

So in your example, when you have instaled outlook on you XP machine in your profile. Log off, log on again as your users and open the program in each of their profiles so as to initiate the setup wizard that enables you set up accounts and rules etc (you'll probably want to do this rather than letting the young'uns struggle though it). This done each user will be running, effectively, the same application but be seeing dfferent mail in their personal PST file which is stored in their personal profile in windows XP giving them a little privacy from each other. You however will, as administrator, if you need to, be able to attach to their PST files (see outlook help system) for supervisory purposes as required.
Cheers
Dave.
 




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