Outlook 2003 System Tray Icon

[mr.sandog]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on WinXP SP2. Please tell me I can disable
this icon in the System Tray. It's ridiculous that I can't manage my
desktop the way I want to.

I've searched this forum and supposedly I can 'always hide' this icon,
but only if I choose the option 'Hide Inactive Icons' (which I choose
not to do, I hate this feature). Is that correct? Please tell me this
is all a big misunderstanding and I can actually get rid of this icon
in the system tray.

Have I mentioned that this is an icon I want to get rid of?

I'm only using Outlook as a calendaring device so if I can't get rid of
this icon then it's on to another calendar.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Why don't you just uncheck the "Hide when minimized" option?

 

[mr.sandog]

I think you're confusing the System Tray with the Task Bar.

Why don't you just uncheck the "Hide when minimized" option?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on WinXP SP2. Please tell me I can disable
this icon in the System Tray. It's ridiculous that I can't manage my
desktop the way I want to.

I've searched this forum and supposedly I can 'always hide' this icon,
but only if I choose the option 'Hide Inactive Icons' (which I choose
not to do, I hate this feature). Is that correct? Please tell me this
is all a big misunderstanding and I can actually get rid of this icon
in the system tray.

Have I mentioned that this is an icon I want to get rid of?

I'm only using Outlook as a calendaring device so if I can't get rid of
this icon then it's on to another calendar.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Not at all, but you are.
You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I told you
how to do stop that behavior.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I think you're confusing the System Tray with the Task Bar.

Why don't you just uncheck the "Hide when minimized" option?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on WinXP SP2. Please tell me I can disable
this icon in the System Tray. It's ridiculous that I can't manage my
desktop the way I want to.

I've searched this forum and supposedly I can 'always hide' this icon,
but only if I choose the option 'Hide Inactive Icons' (which I choose
not to do, I hate this feature). Is that correct? Please tell me this
is all a big misunderstanding and I can actually get rid of this icon
in the system tray.

Have I mentioned that this is an icon I want to get rid of?

I'm only using Outlook as a calendaring device so if I can't get rid of
this icon then it's on to another calendar.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Not at all, but you are.
You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I told
you how to do stop that behavior.

My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification Area
altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so it's "on to
another calendar", as he put it.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar or the
System Tray? Odd.

 

[mr.sandog]

He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar or the
System Tray? Odd.

If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
tray.

Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite you
to not participate in further discussion in this thread.

The following is for people who understand my question -

Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
does.

Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
Icons" unchecked?

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification Area
altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so it's "on to
another calendar", as he put it.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|| or the System Tray? Odd.
|
| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
| present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
| tray.
|
| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
| of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite
| you to not participate in further discussion in this thread.
|
| The following is for people who understand my question -
|
| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
| only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
| 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
| does.
|
| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
| Icons" unchecked?
|
|
|
|
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| |||
|||| Not at all, but you are.
|||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I
|||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||
||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

If I have read all the threads correctly, you want to remove outlook
from the system tray altogether. As far as I am aware, you cannot do
this. You can however hide the outlook icon in the system tray by
following the directions located at;
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011601291033.aspx#show notif

 

[mr.sandog]

Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.

No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has no
idea what he is talking about.

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|| or the System Tray? Odd.
|
| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
| present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
| tray.
|
| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
| of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite
| you to not participate in further discussion in this thread.
|
| The following is for people who understand my question -
|
| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
| only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
| 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
| does.
|
| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
| Icons" unchecked?
|
|
|
|
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| |||
|||| Not at all, but you are.
|||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I
|||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||
||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman

 

[mr.sandog]

If I have read all the threads correctly, you want to remove outlook
from the system tray altogether. As far as I am aware, you cannot do
this. You can however hide the outlook icon in the system tray by
following the directions located at;
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011601291033.aspx#show notif

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

I think you're the only one who actually understands the problem.

I've already read the document you linked to and in order to 'hide' the
icon, the document is saying that the 'Hide Inactive Icons' box must be
checked, which I elect not to do, because that causes other system
behavior that I find unacceptable.

So, it appears that I cannot be rid of the Outlook 2003 icon in the
system tray without enabling other unacceptable system behavior.
Worked fine in Outlook '97, so why Microsoft chose to do this for 2003
is beyond me, but doesn't surprise me.

Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|| or the System Tray? Odd.
|
| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
| present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
| tray.
|
| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
| of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite
| you to not participate in further discussion in this thread.
|
| The following is for people who understand my question -
|
| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
| only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
| 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
| does.
|
| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
| Icons" unchecked?
|
|
|
|
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| |||
|||| Not at all, but you are.
|||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I
|||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||
||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Just out of curiosity, what "system behavior" do you find unacceptable
when you check "Hide Inactive Icon"?

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

If I have read all the threads correctly, you want to remove outlook
from the system tray altogether. As far as I am aware, you cannot do
this. You can however hide the outlook icon in the system tray by
following the directions located at;
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011601291033.aspx#show notif

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

I think you're the only one who actually understands the problem.

I've already read the document you linked to and in order to 'hide' the
icon, the document is saying that the 'Hide Inactive Icons' box must be
checked, which I elect not to do, because that causes other system
behavior that I find unacceptable.

So, it appears that I cannot be rid of the Outlook 2003 icon in the
system tray without enabling other unacceptable system behavior.
Worked fine in Outlook '97, so why Microsoft chose to do this for 2003
is beyond me, but doesn't surprise me.

Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|| or the System Tray? Odd.
|
| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
| present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
| tray.
|
| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
| of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite
| you to not participate in further discussion in this thread.
|
| The following is for people who understand my question -
|
| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
| only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
| 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
| does.
|
| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
| Icons" unchecked?
|
|
|
|
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| |||
|||| Not at all, but you are.
|||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I
|||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||
||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman

 

[mr.sandog]

The same behavior I find unacceptable with 'Personalized Menus' -
things being hidden that require mouse movement to reveal. My
preference is to have economy of movement, and that means, if it is
available/present, it is shown.

Just out of curiosity, what "system behavior" do you find unacceptable
when you check "Hide Inactive Icon"?

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

If I have read all the threads correctly, you want to remove outlook
from the system tray altogether. As far as I am aware, you cannot do
this. You can however hide the outlook icon in the system tray by
following the directions located at;
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011601291033.aspx#show notif

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

I think you're the only one who actually understands the problem.

I've already read the document you linked to and in order to 'hide' the
icon, the document is saying that the 'Hide Inactive Icons' box must be
checked, which I elect not to do, because that causes other system
behavior that I find unacceptable.

So, it appears that I cannot be rid of the Outlook 2003 icon in the
system tray without enabling other unacceptable system behavior.
Worked fine in Outlook '97, so why Microsoft chose to do this for 2003
is beyond me, but doesn't surprise me.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|| or the System Tray? Odd.
|
| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to be
| present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the system
| tray.
|
| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not capable
| of discerning the difference. If either of these is true, I invite
| you to not participate in further discussion in this thread.
|
| The following is for people who understand my question -
|
| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open, and
| only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray. Outlook
| 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet Outlook 2003
| does.
|
| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
| Icons" unchecked?
|
|
|
|
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| |||
|||| Not at all, but you are.
|||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.I
|||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||
||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has no
| idea what he is talking about.
|
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the Taskbar
|||| or the System Tray? Odd.
|||
||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar, only
||| the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I open to
||| be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon in the
||| system tray.
|||
||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the taskbar?
||| I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you are not
||| capable of discerning the difference. If either of these is true,
||| I invite you to not participate in further discussion in this
||| thread.
|||
||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||
||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||
||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide Inactive
||| Icons" unchecked?
|||
|||
|||
|||
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| |||||
|||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray. I
|||||| told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||
||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the Notification
||||| Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way to do that so
||||| it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||| --
||||| Brian Tillman

 

[mr.sandog]

Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Let's hope that if you ever need a cardiologist, he is half as competent as Russ - and that you are a lot more able to accurately listen to the doctor's instructions.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
| texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has
||| no idea what he is talking about.
|||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||||
||||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the
|||||| Taskbar or the System Tray? Odd.
|||||
||||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar,
||||| only the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I
||||| open to be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon
||||| in the system tray.
|||||
||||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the
||||| taskbar? I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you
||||| are not capable of discerning the difference. If either of these
||||| is true, I invite you to not participate in further discussion in
||||| this thread.
|||||
||||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||||
||||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide
||||| Inactive Icons" unchecked?
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| |||||||
|||||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.
|||||||| I told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||||
||||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the
||||||| Notification Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way
||||||| to do that so it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||||| --
||||||| Brian Tillman

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Folks, there was a misunderstanding... Lets not get personal here. It
seems for some reason everyone in all the MS newsgroups are on edge this
weekend. Lets just let this one go. I hope you all have a great weekend.

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

Let's hope that if you ever need a cardiologist, he is half as competent as Russ - and that you are a lot more able to accurately listen to the doctor's instructions.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
| texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has
||| no idea what he is talking about.
|||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||||
||||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the
|||||| Taskbar or the System Tray? Odd.
|||||
||||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar,
||||| only the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I
||||| open to be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon
||||| in the system tray.
|||||
||||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the
||||| taskbar? I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you
||||| are not capable of discerning the difference. If either of these
||||| is true, I invite you to not participate in further discussion in
||||| this thread.
|||||
||||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||||
||||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide
||||| Inactive Icons" unchecked?
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| |||||||
|||||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.
|||||||| I told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||||
||||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the
||||||| Notification Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way
||||||| to do that so it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||||| --
||||||| Brian Tillman

 

[mr.sandog]

I guess that fact that he was wrong and failed to understand the
problem before prescribing a solution is lost on you. That is the mark
of a very poor problem solver, whether we're talking Outlook or
medicine.

You should really quit while you're behind, and while I'm still being
nice.

Let's hope that if you ever need a cardiologist, he is half as competent as Russ - and that you are a lot more able to accurately listen to the doctor's instructions.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
| texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has
||| no idea what he is talking about.
|||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||||
||||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the
|||||| Taskbar or the System Tray? Odd.
|||||
||||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar,
||||| only the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I
||||| open to be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon
||||| in the system tray.
|||||
||||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the
||||| taskbar? I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you
||||| are not capable of discerning the difference. If either of these
||||| is true, I invite you to not participate in further discussion in
||||| this thread.
|||||
||||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||||
||||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide
||||| Inactive Icons" unchecked?
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| |||||||
|||||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.
|||||||| I told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||||
||||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the
||||||| Notification Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way
||||||| to do that so it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||||| --
||||||| Brian Tillman

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You banished me from this thread but I'd like to reply with your permission.
(I hadn't exactly noticed your being nice. I did notice your being very
insulting, but that of course is your prerogative).
I was indeed wrong and would have gladly admitted it. I just completely
misunderstood your question, which was how to keep Outlook 2003 from
appearing AT ALL in the System Tray, not just how to keep it from minimizing
to the System Tray. That behavior is so thoroughly documented in Help files
I assumed you already knew that part. Ironically, that feature was added
deliberately to Outlook 2003 in direct response to users' requests.
In the end it appears that your issue is more with Windows XP and how its
System Tray functions than with Outlook.
I am sorry for misunderstanding your question and thereby providing the
wrong information. Please try not to be too hasty when judging others.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I guess that fact that he was wrong and failed to understand the
problem before prescribing a solution is lost on you. That is the mark
of a very poor problem solver, whether we're talking Outlook or
medicine.

You should really quit while you're behind, and while I'm still being
nice.

Let's hope that if you ever need a cardiologist, he is half as competent
as Russ - and that you are a lot more able to accurately listen to the
doctor's instructions.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
| texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has
||| no idea what he is talking about.
|||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||||
||||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the
|||||| Taskbar or the System Tray? Odd.
|||||
||||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar,
||||| only the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I
||||| open to be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon
||||| in the system tray.
|||||
||||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the
||||| taskbar? I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you
||||| are not capable of discerning the difference. If either of these
||||| is true, I invite you to not participate in further discussion in
||||| this thread.
|||||
||||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||||
||||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide
||||| Inactive Icons" unchecked?
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| |||||||
|||||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.
|||||||| I told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||||
||||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the
||||||| Notification Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way
||||||| to do that so it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||||| --
||||||| Brian Tillman

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Well handled Russ. Thank you for that. As I stated earlier, the MS
newsgroups are in a frenzy this weekend for some reason. I totally
appreciate your professionalism in this matter.

--
Michael D. Alligood,
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor

You banished me from this thread but I'd like to reply with your permission.
(I hadn't exactly noticed your being nice. I did notice your being very
insulting, but that of course is your prerogative).
I was indeed wrong and would have gladly admitted it. I just completely
misunderstood your question, which was how to keep Outlook 2003 from
appearing AT ALL in the System Tray, not just how to keep it from minimizing
to the System Tray. That behavior is so thoroughly documented in Help files
I assumed you already knew that part. Ironically, that feature was added
deliberately to Outlook 2003 in direct response to users' requests.
In the end it appears that your issue is more with Windows XP and how its
System Tray functions than with Outlook.
I am sorry for misunderstanding your question and thereby providing the
wrong information. Please try not to be too hasty when judging others.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I guess that fact that he was wrong and failed to understand the
problem before prescribing a solution is lost on you. That is the mark
of a very poor problem solver, whether we're talking Outlook or
medicine.

You should really quit while you're behind, and while I'm still being
nice.

Let's hope that if you ever need a cardiologist, he is half as competent
as Russ - and that you are a lot more able to accurately listen to the
doctor's instructions.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Let's all hope for his patients' sakes that he reads his cardiology
| texts more thoroughly than he reads usenet postings.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Funny you should say that about an eminent Cardiologist.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Yes, Russ already told you but you choose to not believe him.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| No, actually, Russ has a problem with reading comprehension and has
||| no idea what he is talking about.
|||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:
||||
||||| Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
|||||| He expects a program to run without appearing on either the
|||||| Taskbar or the System Tray? Odd.
|||||
||||| If you read the original post I said nothing about the taskbar,
||||| only the system tray. Of course I expect whatever application I
||||| open to be present in the taskbar. What I don't like is the icon
||||| in the system tray.
|||||
||||| Do you know the difference between the system tray and the
||||| taskbar? I'm beginning to think that either you do not, or you
||||| are not capable of discerning the difference. If either of these
||||| is true, I invite you to not participate in further discussion in
||||| this thread.
|||||
||||| The following is for people who understand my question -
|||||
||||| Right now I have Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird and Outlook all open,
||||| and only Outlook demands that it have an icon in the system tray.
||||| Outlook 97 didn't require an icon in the system tray, and yet
||||| Outlook 2003 does.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to get rid of this icon while leaving "Hide
||||| Inactive Icons" unchecked?
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| |||||||
|||||||| Not at all, but you are.
|||||||| You said you didn't want Outlook minimized to the System Tray.
|||||||| I told you how to do stop that behavior.
|||||||
||||||| My reading is that he wants to ditch the icon in the
||||||| Notification Area altogether. As far as I know, there's no way
||||||| to do that so it's "on to another calendar", as he put it.
||||||| --
||||||| Brian Tillman