Gabby, your emails aren't routed to a computer, they are routed to an email server. Depending on whether you are using a program to handle your email (outlook express, outlook, etc.) or using webmail like googlemail you can access your emails from any computer. They don't come off the server until your download them (not even then if you set it that way). You are with frontier.net, so you should be able to look at their info on your laptop and configure the emails to be read on the laptop. I know the laptop is windows 7, but I think you can still get windows live mail to download from the frontiernet server. I use 7 on a couple of my computers but I still use Outlook to handle email.