Sunday, November 16, 2008

Minimizing Outlook in Notification Area

Can Outlook minimize to the Notification Area*?
This is possible with Outlook 2002 when you add a registry setting and is even the default for Outlook 2003 (rightclick the Outlook icon in the Outlook icon in the Notification Area and deselect "Hide when minimized" to toggle it). For previous versions of Outlook you'll need to use third party software like Actual Title Buttons which lets you minimize every possible window to the Notification Area or download HideOutlook just for Outlook.
For Outlook 2002;
1. Make sure Outlook is closed. 2. Open your registry editor by opening the Run command and type regedit (regedt32 for Windows 2000) 3. Locate the following key; [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences] 4. Goto Edit-> New-> DWORD Value. 5. Name the value MinToTray (case sensitive!) 6. Double-click on the newly created value and give it the value of 1 7. Press OK on the input box and close the registry editor 8. When you open Outlook an Outlook icon is displayed in the Notification Area. Press the minimize button and Outlook will stay in the Notification Area. Doubleclick on it to open Outlook.
*The Notification Area in Windows XP is what the System tray was in previous versions of Windows

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