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  • P Paul Riley

    Why the hell doesn't Outlook minimize into a notify icon? I have this damn program running day and night and it eats up a quarter of the taskbar, is that entirely necessary? I only want to know if an email has turned up, if the server connect is failing or if I've forgotten something in my calendar, the rest of the time it should just get the hell out of my face. Am I the only one irritated by this? Better still, am I missing some well-hidden but really simple checkbox that'll do the job for me? Or have they "fixed" it in Office XP? That would be a reason to go through the hassle of upgrading. Say what you like about them, MS are usually pretty good at doing really obvious things like this; why not in Outlook? Paul And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
    Racing around to come up behind you again
    The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
    Shorter of breath, one day closer to death     - Pink Floyd, Time

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    Iconizer[^] The depths of CP are unmeasurable...

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      Iconizer[^] The depths of CP are unmeasurable...

      ... you keep forgetting that sheep shagging is not a crime in Australia ...Paul Watson, The Lounge

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      Andreas Saurwein wrote: Iconizer[^] The depths of CP are unmeasurable... Cool! I admit to being kind of nervous about some of the comments at the bottom though, particularly the lack of XP version. Maybe the 2K version would work, but it is a big maybe. I'd certainly have to take a full backup before I risked it. Paul And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
      Racing around to come up behind you again
      The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
      Shorter of breath, one day closer to death       - Pink Floyd, Time

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      • P Paul Riley

        Andreas Saurwein wrote: Iconizer[^] The depths of CP are unmeasurable... Cool! I admit to being kind of nervous about some of the comments at the bottom though, particularly the lack of XP version. Maybe the 2K version would work, but it is a big maybe. I'd certainly have to take a full backup before I risked it. Paul And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
        Racing around to come up behind you again
        The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
        Shorter of breath, one day closer to death         - Pink Floyd, Time

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        Andreas Saurwein
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        Actually it runs fine, although it looks ugly when you have Themes on. There are a few glitches, but hey, you have the source :)

        ... you keep forgetting that sheep shagging is not a crime in Australia ...Paul Watson, The Lounge

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        • A Andreas Saurwein

          Iconizer[^] The depths of CP are unmeasurable...

          ... you keep forgetting that sheep shagging is not a crime in Australia ...Paul Watson, The Lounge

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          KaRl
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          Excellent, thanks! CP kicks ass! :cool:

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          • P Paul Riley

            Andreas Saurwein wrote: You should try the vertical taskbar instead of the default bottom crap Can you even do that in Windows XP? I've never seen a way to do it. I did it before with an earlier version and in all honesty didn't like it, but I'd try it again. I will say this though... it wouldn't stop me being pissed off about Outlook wasting space where it shouldn't need to :-D Paul And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
            Racing around to come up behind you again
            The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
            Shorter of breath, one day closer to death             - Pink Floyd, Time

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            It *does* take a while to get used to it, but in my case, there's no going back...

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            • P Paul Riley

              KaЯl wrote: It could be a good idea for a small app, which could change any button of the taskbar in icon in the systray, and vice-versa. Interesting idea, I think it would be impossible though. Don't you have to create the notify icon and then remove your app from the taskbar? (two completely unrelated actions - I did this once but a long time ago, I may be talking out of my ear) You could create a notify icon, no problem. But how would you tell an unknown app to remove itself from the taskbar (or worse, remove the notify icon and put it back into the taskbar)? Paul And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
              Racing around to come up behind you again
              The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
              Shorter of breath, one day closer to death               - Pink Floyd, Time

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              "Impossible", just like this: http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/[^] ;P This little jewel has been on my "must have" utility collection since the day I found it.

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              • D David Wulff

                Outlook 2002 allows you to minimise it to the system tray, though you need to set a registry entry directly: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences\MinToTray (DWORD) = 1 I agree though, this should be in the options. And please for Outlook 11 - when I tell the status dialog "not to show during send/receive", I mean not to show it during send /receive regardless of whether Outlook is minimised or not.

                David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

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                Oh my god this is sooooooo frikin' awsome! I have been trying to figure out hoe to do that for weeks! This is so cool... Grrrrr but now OL is one of those annoying apps that don't minimize to the system try when you click on the 'X' :mad: Damn! (one of the 100 reasons i stopped using ICQ). Still cool though....

                Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
                George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."

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