Outlook reminder popup hidden behind other windows

[B. Stott]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get reminder popups to show up in front of all open
windows? If I am working on something other than Outlook, the reminders are
hidden and I can't see them ... making them rather useless.

Thanks!
-Bret

 

[Roady [MVP]]

In many cases taking focus issues are solved when you update your videocard
driver to the latest available. If you are running the latest already try
rolling back to a previous driver and see if it solves your issue.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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Hi,

Does anyone know how to get reminder popups to show up in front of all open
windows? If I am working on something other than Outlook, the reminders are
hidden and I can't see them ... making them rather useless.

Thanks!
-Bret

 

[B. Stott]

Hi Roady,

Thanks for the response! If I understand correctly, the reminder popups
*should* show up in front of all other windows and you believe it has to do
with the videocard driver ... correct? Is there anyway from me to test this?

-Bret

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yep, it should pop-up otherwise it is indeed a bit worthless unless you look
at flashing TaskBar programs.

Other possibilities for the reminder not showing up could be because you are
using programs/add-ins that force itself to remain on the foreground. Since
this is a lot harder to test, more unlikely to be the issue and the fact
that it is a good practise to always run the latest drivers updating your
driver to the latest is the eassiest way to test it.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

-----
Hi Roady,

Thanks for the response! If I understand correctly, the reminder popups
*should* show up in front of all other windows and you believe it has to do
with the videocard driver ... correct? Is there anyway from me to test
this?

-Bret