My wife uses outlook express on our dell desktop pc, this is on a wireless network with my laptop, we can see and access each others machines, How can I see our e-mails which are on the pc on my laptop, by the way these arent private emails but ones that are common to us both(Just had to edit this message because of first reply)

You can't. You don't have a mainframe. You either have a pc or a laptop. Outlook isn't shared. Ask your wife if you can read her emails.

thx, i meant to say desktop not mainframe, also they are our emails. But cutting through your sarcasm I assume the answer is that its not possible

Outlook Express no. Does you ISP offer web browser based email ??

thx for that, is it the same no-no for outlook2003 and outlook2007, I am in the meantime trying to get her to have a googlemail account like me, would be so much easier than her present one

What MWCC is suggesting is you don't download your email to your local pc [all the same outlook, 2003 outlook, whatever] but go to the ISPs web site and login to their web based email. You would use a single acccount you both could logon to. This allows you to check on email without being at your or her pc but from anywhere you can get an internet connection. who is your ISP? Do they have a web page?