I've done a global search thru Anandtech and have not seen this problem addressed. Hope someone here has an idea for me.
I have a W2k/sp2 machine. Asus A7v/1 Gb Tbird/512 Mb Mushkin/NAV 2001 up-to-date, etc. and use OE 6 for email.
I recently read a page in the W2k help file that gives some good reasons for not running the computer as an administrator. (winnt\help\windows.chm::/windows_security_whynot_admin.htm).
So after running this way for a year and a half, I decided to take my standalone PC which had me as an administrator (and didn't even need CAD to sign on and run) and create a special administrator account, change my account to Power User and create a user account for my wife. I also changed the machine to require a p/w for access.
Prior to this, I had OE 6 setup for email accounts for me, the wife, and 2 kids. To check our email, we'd just switch identities.
With the new arrangement, my account works normally. However, when I go to OE in my wife's W2k account, OE takes about 30 seconds to open up from the splash screen. I have not been able to find out why this is happening. (I haven't yet set up user ID's for the kids)
Also, I haven't found a way to import my wife's contacts from the .wab file which, even though combined in the earlier configuration, they show as separate contacts when changing from my OE account to hers. I'm not quite sure how OE handles this. I did point the new OE/W2k config to the OE msg file (custom). So the old msgs show up fine.
Another problem I constantly run into with OE (under the prior config): switching identities in OE sometimes causes the OE screen to disappear. I think the button even disappears from the task bar. Pull up Task Manager and it's still consuming resources. The only solution I've found thus far is to end the msimn.exe process and start OE again. Thus far, this has always fixed it. But it still bugs me that it happens. Any clues on this one?
Thanks!
I have a W2k/sp2 machine. Asus A7v/1 Gb Tbird/512 Mb Mushkin/NAV 2001 up-to-date, etc. and use OE 6 for email.
I recently read a page in the W2k help file that gives some good reasons for not running the computer as an administrator. (winnt\help\windows.chm::/windows_security_whynot_admin.htm).
So after running this way for a year and a half, I decided to take my standalone PC which had me as an administrator (and didn't even need CAD to sign on and run) and create a special administrator account, change my account to Power User and create a user account for my wife. I also changed the machine to require a p/w for access.
Prior to this, I had OE 6 setup for email accounts for me, the wife, and 2 kids. To check our email, we'd just switch identities.
With the new arrangement, my account works normally. However, when I go to OE in my wife's W2k account, OE takes about 30 seconds to open up from the splash screen. I have not been able to find out why this is happening. (I haven't yet set up user ID's for the kids)
Also, I haven't found a way to import my wife's contacts from the .wab file which, even though combined in the earlier configuration, they show as separate contacts when changing from my OE account to hers. I'm not quite sure how OE handles this. I did point the new OE/W2k config to the OE msg file (custom). So the old msgs show up fine.
Another problem I constantly run into with OE (under the prior config): switching identities in OE sometimes causes the OE screen to disappear. I think the button even disappears from the task bar. Pull up Task Manager and it's still consuming resources. The only solution I've found thus far is to end the msimn.exe process and start OE again. Thus far, this has always fixed it. But it still bugs me that it happens. Any clues on this one?
Thanks!
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