Vista - A second Hotmail account

I currently have a Hotmail account and also chat using windows live
Messenger. My wife would like her own account. How do I set up her account
without re-installing the Windows software and all that. She just wants her
own Hotmail for email and to chat also. We need to have this done from the
same computer........can we have two accounts and each have our own login?
Help Please......
Thanks
Joe

Hello Joe,

Windows Live Messenger does support multiple accounts. Simply sign out of
the first account (rightclicking the Messenger icon in the systray, and
clicking "Sign out"), then enter your wife's Windows Live ID and the
corresponding password. Choose whether you want to store the credentials,
then sign in.
For using 2 different email accounts in Windows Live Mail, you will have to
set up a second user account within your operating system as Windows Live
Mail does not support identities anymore, like Outlook Express did. Of
course, using the Hotmail website mail program is possible without using 2
Windows User Accounts. Simply enter the corresponding Windows Live ID and
password when prompted for at the login.live.com sign-in page.

Regards,
mynetx

"Joe" <Joe@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Sun, 4 May 2008 08:29:30 -0500, Joe wrote:
You go to the Windows Live site and sign her up. The Windows Live Messenger,
and Hotmail, accounts are independent of the Windows OS on your computer.
Yes, but I believe you can't both be logged in at the same time from the
same computer. You can have multiple Hotmail accounts set up in Windows Live
Mail (the desktop mail client), but you can only log in one user ID at a
time through a web browser, or through Windows Live Messenger (the IM, or
"chat", client).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

On Sun, 4 May 2008 15:39:40 +0200, mynetx [Messenger Plus!] wrote:
Odd. I have three Windows Live Hotmail accounts set up in Windows Live Mail.
Assuming that you don't mind if multiple users can access each other's email
messages.

You only need separate OS user accounts if you intend to provide security of
user data against viewing by other users; and, in that case, you *need* to
set up each user with a password protected Limited User Account. Giving all
users full administrative rights, and no passwords, defeats the purpose of
separate user accounts.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Sure, adding multiple email accounts is possible, but not as for separated
from being able to read the other ones.
And, using Messenger Plus! Live, Messenger WILL allow to sign in with 2
accounts simultaneously on one machine.

mynetx

"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:05:58 +0200, mynetx [Messenger Plus!] wrote:
Read my response again, please. Where I said, "You only need separate OS
user accounts if you intend to provide security of user data against viewing
by other users...". What this means is, if you don't want your Significant
other to read your email, you need to set up a separate, password protected
OS account. This is because WLM has dropped the MSOE concept of the
Identity.

For reasons unclear to me, people think that the MSOE Identity provides
security for each account in a separate Identity; it does not. On Windows 9x
systems, there was no way, even with MSOE Identities, to lock oth users out
of your MSOE account data. All another user had to do was execute the
"Import" command from within his MSOE Identity, point it to your message
store, and suck in all of your email.

Even with MSOE Identities, the ***ONLY*** way to secure account data against
snooping was a file system security which Windows 9x lacks. With Windows XP
and Windows Vista, you can set up LUAs, with password protection. When you
log off your LUA, nobody can access your user data without your password.

If you must share a common login with other users, you need to understand:
Everybody who has access to that account, has access to the file system for
that account. The fill system permissions are set according to the user who
is logged in, per the OS permissions. I know of no applications with
independent user security. If I can read the disk, I can read the files on
the disk. If I have the file system permissions of the account I am using,
you won't be able to hide Jack from me.
Messenger Plus! Live is not a Microsoft product. Windows Live Messenger, the
Microsoft Product, will only permit one Live account log in per instance.

In any case, if you are using a single Windows XP, or Windows Vista user
account for multiple users, you can't secure the file system against access
by the users logged in with that account. All users in that account have
access to the file system per that account file system permissions.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Greetings Joe,
thank you for the steps. But, what is a systray, the messenger icon in the
systray?
Previously I've asked what the e and s stood for in essay, since I hadn't
seen the word before asking the question.
thanx and peace,
beyondnobodywantsme@xxxxxx
if that one is available.
Peace.


"mynetx [Messenger Plus!]" wrote:

Hi,
I came across this thread while searching for a solution to my issue, and
thought it appropriate to ask here...

I've got both my wife and I sign on to messenger in the same OS account. I
went set myself up with Live Mail, and it dutifully added my contacts from my
hotmail/messenger or whereever. I then proceeded to add my wife's account
to Live Mail, which is great, except she only sees my contacts and not hers.
Furthermore, her messenger button for mail opens up hotmail in IE, not Live
Mail, like I can. So how can I add her contacts and default her to Live
Mail? If not, I want her stuff to be the default, not mine.

Any pointers much appreciated...

Ernest



"mynetx [Messenger Plus!]" wrote: