Alright, our computer has three users, myself, my brother and my parents.
As you turn on the computer it arrives at the magical log in screen where you select which “user” you want to log in with.
Under each name, there is a number count of unread e-mails.
Click on my brothers, and you see his e-mail address in a little bubble window.
Click on mine, and you see my e-mail address in a little bubble window.
(sorry, thats the best explanation I can do!)
However, clicking on my parents shows 29 unread e-mails and not their e-mail address, but My Own.
First of all, I don’t have 29 unread e-mails not do I want their user to be tied with my e-mail. How the bleeping bleep does one change this and find those unanswered e-mails?!?!
Unless you really, really have to have them, steer clear of those multiple identities. They’re a hassle from square one, and they slow everything down. You can still have multiple email addresses without them. XP is just fine, but that multiple user part is truly foktop.
In response to the OP, my WAG is that your parents have the wrong email settings configured in Outlook Express or Windows Messenger, whichever one they use for email. You might want to log in to their account and check their Outlook Express settings to make sure that your email account isn’t in there and that their own account is in there and set as the “Default Account”. I don’t know if that’s the problem for sure though, sorry.
And about the multiple identities, I’ve been using them for a little more than a year without any problems. If it starts getting slow, just make sure the other people aren’t running too many programs and also try to log them off (with a full “Log Off”, not just the “Switch User” function) whenever possible. If it’s a family computer, using multiple users is probably a lot less of a hassle than having to deal with multiple people’s files and settings all interfering with yours under the same account.
Did you check your parents’ .NET Passport settings? Log in as them then go to CONTROL PANEL - USERS - [USERNAME] - Change my .net passport settings. They might be unknowlingly using your passport settings.
critter42 thanks for that article, I was looking for that very info yesterday!!!
Asknot I find multiple users to be really great! Settings can be personal preference, weather it be mouse, desktop, games etc. And we can have private folders etc. This is the only “problem” that I have encountered so far.
nobodyimportant Thanks, I will definetly check that out in a few minutes.
Critter Your link may be the answer to my problem, i’m very thankful for your help!
Alright.
Following the web pages instructions, I was able to get rid of the e-mail notification under my user name, and my parents.
The webpage realises that you may have more than one e-mail under a user so it explains how the computer can be set to only check ones you want.
When I specifically deny the ones I don’t want to be read, it goes ahead and denies them all somehow.
(Keep in mind, i’m not right clicking the mother folder, but the individual ones, like the instructions say.)
So, now it won’t check my e-mail or my parents with out adding those 29 “ghost” e-mails to my parents, and of course not mine even though it says they are in my e-mail.
What is going on? This should be working as far as I can tell.
Sound to me like some left over digits in Outlook.You may have to reset the counter in the program.Take a look at this explanation and try it. I have always like Power Toys. It is a nice little program. Link
Good Luck
