I have Outlook 2000 set up on one computer with Win 2k Professional. I have
it set up to prompt for which of three users to start and then it opens up
the appropriate pst file and user profile.

I have just bought a new laptop with win XP and can't duplicate that
functionality. It seems only to offer me the option of setting up different
xp users each with their own outlook profile, which requires that I log off
the current user and go to the second user in order to check that mail. Am I
doing something wrong? or is this a funtion of XP?

Also, if it is a function of XP, would a more current version of Outlook
allow me the functionality of prompting for a user profile when I start
Outlook?

It usually best to setup seperate users but you should be able to get
Outlook to prompt for MAPI profiles he Control Panel Mail Show
Profiles. Select the 'Prompt' option.

"Pro" wrote in message
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I have Outlook 2000 set up on one computer with Win 2k Professional. I
have
it set up to prompt for which of three users to start and then it opens up
the appropriate pst file and user profile.

I have just bought a new laptop with win XP and can't duplicate that
functionality. It seems only to offer me the option of setting up
different
xp users each with their own outlook profile, which requires that I log
off
the current user and go to the second user in order to check that mail.
Am I
doing something wrong? or is this a funtion of XP?

Also, if it is a function of XP, would a more current version of Outlook
allow me the functionality of prompting for a user profile when I start
Outlook?

That works ok on my win 2k computer...but when I go to the XP computer and
choose Control PanelMail I do not get the same window next. On the win2k
computer I get a window that says "Pro's Email Properties" and has a button
for "show profiles" but on the XP computer I get a window that says
"Internet Accounts" and has no button for "Show Profiles" That window does
allow me to set up other e-mail accounts and choose which is to be the
default, but not to view them separately

"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

It usually best to setup seperate users but you should be able to get
Outlook to prompt for MAPI profiles he Control Panel Mail Show
Profiles. Select the 'Prompt' option.

"Pro" wrote in message
...
I have Outlook 2000 set up on one computer with Win 2k Professional. I
have
it set up to prompt for which of three users to start and then it opens up
the appropriate pst file and user profile.

I have just bought a new laptop with win XP and can't duplicate that
functionality. It seems only to offer me the option of setting up
different
xp users each with their own outlook profile, which requires that I log
off
the current user and go to the second user in order to check that mail.
Am I
doing something wrong? or is this a funtion of XP?

Also, if it is a function of XP, would a more current version of Outlook
allow me the functionality of prompting for a user profile when I start
Outlook?

Pro wrote:

That works ok on my win 2k computer...but when I go to the XP
computer and choose Control PanelMail I do not get the same window
next. On the win2k computer I get a window that says "Pro's Email
Properties" and has a button for "show profiles" but on the XP
computer I get a window that says "Internet Accounts" and has no
button for "Show Profiles"

You apparently have Outlook 2000 installed in Corporate/Workgroup mode on
the Windows 2000 system and in Internet Mail Only mode in the Windows XP
system. You can change the mode on the XP system and it will behave the
same way as the W2K system.
--
Brian Tillman

Can you advise how I change the mode? I must admit I didn't even know there
were two modes, so whatever I did, it was completely accidental.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pro wrote:

That works ok on my win 2k computer...but when I go to the XP
computer and choose Control PanelMail I do not get the same window
next. On the win2k computer I get a window that says "Pro's Email
Properties" and has a button for "show profiles" but on the XP
computer I get a window that says "Internet Accounts" and has no
button for "Show Profiles"

You apparently have Outlook 2000 installed in Corporate/Workgroup mode on
the Windows 2000 system and in Internet Mail Only mode in the Windows XP
system. You can change the mode on the XP system and it will behave the
same way as the W2K system.
--
Brian Tillman

Pro wrote:

Can you advise how I change the mode?
ToolsOptionsMail SetupReconfigure
--
Brian Tillman