Possible to have two browser bookmarks that auto-login to two separate yahoo email accounts

Sorry for the long title, I wasn't sure how to best shorten it while getting my point

I'm reinstalling Windows XP Home on my parents laptop b/c it has been horrible bogged down with who-knows-what-crap-they've-installed.

They use to have two User IDs set up - one for each parent and I was thinking it might help performance to just have one ID - but my dad's primary complaint was that when he uses his IE bookmarks, he wants it to auto login to his account and not my moms.. is there any way to create a bookmark for each of them? They don't care if the other person can easily see their email.

 

Right click on your desktop and choose NEWand choose SHORTCUT

In the box that appears, type in the LOCATION box the following

http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?login=USERNAME&passwd=PASSWORD&.done=http://my.yahoo.com

(all on one line)

Substitute your Dad's username for USERNAME and your dad's PASSWORD for PASSWORD

Click NEXT

Type DAD's EMAIL

Do the same for MOM

The only thing I am not sure of is whether running the MOM shortcut will log out dad...think it will

Could you convince them to use opposite browsers (one IE, one Firefox)?

 

Gerry, thanks for the quick response.. I tried your suggestion, but it goes straight to the login page without the fields populated. I didn't create the shortcut yet - just tried entering it into the URL with the UserName and Password changed per your directions.. I tried the User Name as the user id (before @yahoo.com) and with the @yahoo.com and neither worked. Would love for them to use different browsers... perhaps I'll try that if this doesn't work out.

Thanks again

 

Another possible solution is to have them each use sandboxes. Sandboxie allows you to use multiple sandboxes at a time with the registered version. In case you aren't familiar with the program, a sandbox allows you to run programs without altering the state of Windows. Any programs installed or websites accessed within the sandbox is isolated to the sandbox.

Alternatively, if they each had their own Windows user account, wouldn't this eliminate the issue?

 

ooh, i googled based on your suggestion and found that this works for me.
https://login.yahoo.com/config/logi...ass=&.partner=&login=USERNAME&passwd=PASSWORD

Where Username includes the @yahoo.com

Thanks for the idea!!

 

Code:

http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?login=USERNAME&passwd=PASSWORD&.done=http://my.yahoo.com

Sorry, never even bothered to look back at my post to see it had converted my code to an actual link

I probably should have said that your username is your email address UNLESS you happen to be a very longtime user of Yahoo.

I've been on Yahoo so long my username is simply my first name....that must make me very old

 

one use Firefox and other use IE?