Re: OE 6 won't switch identities

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From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 05:58:24 -0400

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Martinellis wrote:
> When I installed XP home (clean install, NTFS) and set up the desktop as I
> wanted it, I added extra user accounts for my family, expecting to be able
> to copy everything to each new user name, then custimise it for each new
> account (As I used to do with W98). When I found that I couldn't do this
> (or didn't know how), I decided to keep the one account but create three
> identities in OE6, these being Martin , Chris and Andy. Sometimes when, 
> for
> example, Chris has been logged on (in OE), and I attempt to switch
> identities to the Martin account, OE refreshes, but still with the Chris
> identity showing. Here's the weird part, it proceeds to download the 
> Martin
> e-mails into a couple of Chris's folders. This means that he is receiving
> some of my e-mails, which I, obviously don't get. It only seems to be the
> Chris identity which causes this. My best solution would be to find out 
> how
> to set up the desktop and start menu etc, to be the same on three seperate
> Windows user accounts, so we can all have our own address books etc, or to
> find out what's causing this anomaly - Martin Ellis

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