Cunning & Baffling OL 2003 Question

[Tom]

BTW - Overall, LOVE the new Outlook 2003!!

I spotted a problem that may have existed in previous verions, but I only
recently had the occasion to stumble onto it.

I've always used Outlook @ home as a single user (profile), and just
added a second "mail profile" (in XP/Pro), and Outlook works great,
except...

Both profiles seem to share the same categories, which is defeating much
of the purpose (for me) of having seperate profiles. One profile is my
"work" PST file (which I sync with the office & my Palm) and the other is
my "home and hobby" profile/PST which stays at home, which I wanted to
set-up with different (obviously) categories that are hobby/club related,
but when I add those, they're added to BOTH profiles, and when I delete
the business categories from the home profile, they're deleted from
both!?

As configured, the seperate profile is useless (I can't be adding and
taking-away categories from the business PST).

Since categories (obviously, one would assume) relate to profiles, why is
this happening? What do I have configured wrong!?

Thanks in advance for the help!

-Tom

 

[Patrick Reed [Outlook - MVP]]

Categories are stored as a bvinary value in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry
hive. This is Windows profile-specific, not Outlook profile-specific,
unfortunately.

I believe you have to set up a separate Windows profile, log into Windows
under that user, and then create your other Outlook profile to have separate
Master Category lists. Of course, you can still assign Categories to items
regardless of whether or not they're in the Master Category list.