Outlook Reminders in Windows 7

[DVoss]

Has anyone found a work-around that can make Calendar reminders come to the
top when running on Windows 7. I am running Office 2007, and since switching
to Windows 7, I find the reminders virtually useless. The reminder window
is always buried.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

AFAIk, there isn't a setting to force it on top.

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[Alan B]

I am having this same problem. My Outlook alerts only appear if I have an
Office application up.
I have a colleague who doesn't have this problem. I noticed that my taskbar
looks different than his. Mine has the newer Windows 7 look with square
icons, while his looks more like the traditional Windows XP look with icon
and name of the application next to it. I don't know if this is related or
not.

I've also found that my IM alerts aren't as noticeable in Windows 7.

 

[Bob I]

Outlook must be open for Reminders or alerts to fire. You MAY elect to
"hide when minimized" by r-clicking the Outlook Icon in the notification
area and enabling that option.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook needs to be open for the reminders to fire - if you colleague closed
outlook and still got reminders, he didn't really close it. He might have
outlook set to minimize to the notification area or something is keeping it
running hidden.

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[jmaxon]

It appears to be an issue with Windows 7 (Win7), not Outlook. By default,
Win7 combines the taskbar buttons. By doing so the Reminder gets embedded
into the "grouping" behind the Outlook icon. This makes the reminder
difficult to notice.

If you change the "Taskbar buttons" setting under the "Taskbar and Start
Menu Properties" to "Never combine," then the grouping separates and the
reminder pops-up in front of whatever else you have open.

However, one of the great new features of Win7 is this nice, clean taskbar
grouping. So it becomes a matter of sacrifice in order to get this to work
correctly.

I'm hoping that Microsoft comes up with a fix for this, as I'm sure more and
more people are going to become annoyed.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Combine when full may work also - anything but always combine. (FWIW,
Windows XP and Vista combine buttons too, unless you tell it otherwise. )

Try the taskbar on the right (or left) - it holds more open files before
grouping (if you use combine when full). It took me about two weeks to be
comfortable with the switch and in many ways, it makes more sense than on
the bottom. (It would be perfect if the start menu was in the lower right.)

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