User Accounts Help To Understand Them

I know user accounts should be easy to understand but they always baffle me. I have a new Windows 10 PC and set up an admin account (1) then a separate user account (2). I was logging on with the separate user account 2 but found that every time I wanted to install a program or make changes, I had to enter my admin account password. To get around this I've now also changed my second user account to an admin account.

My question is that I downloaded Mailstore Home and saved and archived my email under user account 1. Next time I logged in I used user account 2 ( as I prefer to do this and leave account 1 to only use if there are problems with the PC). On looking at Mailstore when I was logged in on account 2 there is nothing saved. If I log in on account (1 )which was the account I used to download Mailstore under the emails are showing. Why would this have happened? Please help. Thanks

 

Most software programs ask in the install process whether you wish to install for 'the current user only' or (in a second check box) 'all users'. Mailstore should have an online User Guide/Manual or Knowledge Base to answer those questions. In Mail programs if you have more than one user account you mostly need a separate profile for each.
The idea of User Accounts in Windows is, of course, for separate users but also the type of account (Admin or 'standard') is to determine who can actually make critical system changes.

 

Hello again. thanks for reply. My problem is if I change one account back to an ordinary user account then I will have to keep entering the password all the time for any changes or programs I want to install. Do you think I should just leave both as admin accounts for ease?

 

This is simply Windows security doing its job. If the second user account had been created for a husband/wife/partner rather than for your own use they probably wouldn't want you to be able to read their emails and vice versa. The computer doesn't know that both user accounts were wanted for the same user. However if you set your email account up again in 2 you will, provided you are using an IMAP account rather than a POP account, be able to read and respond to your mail there too.

 

Hi Earthling. Yes that is what I have had to do. I've set the email account up again. Thanks for explaining.