Tweak Of The Week: Minimize Outlook to System Tray

[amnesiac]

I know a few of you here use Outlook for your email.
Personally, I don't like programs that I have open all the time take up space in the taskbar.

This neat little registry hack will give you an Outlook icon in your systray, and makes Outlook minimize to tray when clicked.

Note: Does NOT work with Outlook Express.

Minimize Outlook to System Tray

Enjoy.

 

[minendo]

Thank you. This will be great for at work where I have to always have Outlook open.

 

[Anubis]

ahh workin now

 

[gump47371]

This is what I use, and can verify it works great. But sure is handy, and I am sure either will work.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

NOTE: Doesn't work in NT

 

[HonkeyDonk]

is this outlook or outlook express?

 

[Colt45]

doesnt seem to be working on winxp / outlook 2000


i didnt reboot though, i guess i'd probably have to for a reg change to take effect eh?

 

[amnesiac]

My spoon is too big.

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Colt45
doesnt seem to be working on winxp / outlook 2000 i didnt reboot though, i guess i'd probably have to for a reg change to take effect eh?

All you need to do is put in a registry key. I've had Outlook XP minimized in my System Tray for almost a year now. Let me find it...

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Night201

Originally posted by: Colt45 doesnt seem to be working on winxp / outlook 2000 i didnt reboot though, i guess i'd probably have to for a reg change to take effect eh?

All you need to do is put in a registry key. I've had Outlook XP minimized in my System Tray for almost a year now. Let me find it...

Here (ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE OUTLOOK XP):

1. 
   <LI>Open Regedit.
   <LI>Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences
   <LI>Add a new DWORD value and name it MinToTray
   <LI>Set it equal to 1.
   <LI>Restart Outlook, it should now minimize to the tray.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Doesn't work with Outlook 2000 on Win2K Pro.

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: HonkeyDonk
is this outlook or outlook express?

Note: Does NOT work with Outlook Express.

Damn...

 

[UNCjigga]

What does it do with the 'Reminders' window...that one still pops up on taskbar right?

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
My spoon is too big.

Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, try and relize the truth.

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: Night201

Originally posted by: Night201

Originally posted by: Colt45 doesnt seem to be working on winxp / outlook 2000 i didnt reboot though, i guess i'd probably have to for a reg change to take effect eh?

All you need to do is put in a registry key. I've had Outlook XP minimized in my System Tray for almost a year now. Let me find it...

Here (ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE OUTLOOK XP):

1. Open Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences
3. Add a new DWORD value and name it MinToTray
4. Set it equal to 1.
5. Restart Outlook, it should now minimize to the tray.</LI>

Kick ass! Worked like a charm. Thanks! 😀

 

[tm37]

I love it thanks🙂

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Doesn't work with Outlook 2000 on Win2K Pro.

🙁

 

[Eli]

I hate outlook.

 

[tommigsr]

i think i love you! j/p LOL thanks for the tweak, love it!

 

[Chess]

it is a good tweak !

 

[draggoon01]

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/

trayit let's you minimize any program to system tray

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: gump47371
This is what I use, and can verify it works great. But sure is handy, and I am sure either will work.

This works great on Win2k and Outlook 2k.

amish

 

[Mr N8]

Thanks. Saved some more valuable desktop space.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

yup, being using this one for a while now (read ever since XP came out)

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

oh...and if you don't want to download the .reg, you can just do the following:

1.Open your registry (Click on Start->Run and type regedit and press OK) and find the key below. You may need to create the key if it does not already exist.

2.Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'MinToTray' and edit the value according to the settings below.

3.Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

Settings
Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences]
Value Name: MinToTray
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (1 = System Tray, 0 = Taskbar)


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