> Minimize Outlook and the icon will be in the notification area. Right click on it and select "Hide when minimized" - this should do the trick.
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> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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> After furious head scratching, six-h asked:
>
> | Hi, VanguardLH
> |
> | You are correct, "Wkcalrem.exe" ran at start-up automatically,
> | meaning that any reminders were displayed routinely as soon as
> | windows loaded.
> | Sounds like minimising Outlook to the notification area will achieve
> | the same function, but I can't find how to do this. The help files
> | only explain how to banish the icon from the notification area, not
> | how to leave it there and banish the taskbar button!
> | Once I've achieved this, do I have to re-do it on each boot, because
> | that was the convenience of "Wkcalrem.exe"?
> | How do I "re-awaken" Outlook, or don't I need to - just use the icon
> | in the notification area?
> |
> | six-h
> |
> |
> | "VanguardLH" wrote:
> |
> || six-h wrote:
> ||
> ||| Hi VanguardLH,
> |||
> ||| As I've said to Diane, I completely accept your logic!
> |||
> ||| However, there must be some way to use one or other of the calender
> ||| features "automatically" and independently of the programme being
> ||| open, as I have described was the case with my old XP machine!
> ||
> || 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.
> ||
> ||| I'm running Vista Ultimate, and Office 2007 Enterprise edition,
> ||
> || 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).
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