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).
