Outlook in System Tray

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Ed Fitzgerald

I downloaded a new patch for Office yesterday. After it was installed, the
Outlook icon appeared in my system tray even though I didn't (think I had)
Outlook running. I was getting notifications of received email in real time.
When I started Outlook and then closed it, all this went away. Is there a
way to set this up as full time so Outlook is running in the background?
 
Here is some info I found..

To Minimize Outlook XP to the System Tray / Taskbar:

Start / Run / Regedit

Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 10.0 \
Outlook \ Preferences

Click on the right side of the screen, right-click and create:

DWord Value: MinToTray
Set value at: 1 (enable) or 0 (to disable MinToTray)

You could create a shortcut to outlook in your startup so that it
automatically runs in your tray. Other then that, not sure of a way to
always keep it running.
 
Ed Fitzgerald said:
I downloaded a new patch for Office yesterday. After it was
installed, the Outlook icon appeared in my system tray even though I
didn't (think I had) Outlook running. I was getting notifications of
received email in real time. When I started Outlook and then closed
it, all this went away. Is there a way to set this up as full time so
Outlook is running in the background?
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Just don't close Outlook. Instead, select the "Hide when Minimized" option
on that Outlook icon and minimize it instead of closing it.
 
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