six-h wrote:


You accept the logic and then you refute the logic. As you had back in
XP, you had some program running that did the calendaring function. It
ran as a background process either as a startup item or an NT service.
From what I've found through a Google search, MS Works left wkcalrem.exe
running as a background process to do the calendar alerts. So, again,
something had to be left running to do something, like the calendar
alerts you mentioned. Outlook doesn't provide separate monitor or
reminder mini-utilities that run separate of outlook.exe.


If you want to use the calendar inside of Outlook, you'll have to leave
Outlook running. That's why I mentioned you could have Outlook minimize
to a tray icon in the system notification area (system tray) of the
Windows taskbar rather than minimize Outlook to a button in the taskbar.
Outlook would still be running when you minimize it (to a tray icon).
Just be careful not to exit Outlook and instead just minimize it. When
minimized, Outlook reduces its memory consumption by releasing its GDI
objects (unlike some e-mail programs, like Thunderbird, that consumes
the same memory whether minimized or not).