one instance of outlook 2007

[Marty]

My Dad has Outlook set to Hide When Minimized where it stays in the
system tray all day for new mail notifications.

The problem being is if Outlook is then launched from a shortcut
elsewhere on the computer and then minimized and this process continues
all day there may be several states of Outlook open at one time in the
system tray under right-click tray icon > Open Outlook.

Can anyone tell me if there are several entries in Open Outlook in the
tray does that use up more system resources?

Thank you!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It will add a bit, yes. Verify that the shortcut you use to launch Outlook
has /recycle switch added to it.

 

[VanguardLH]

It will add a bit, yes. Verify that the shortcut you use to launch Outlook
has /recycle switch added to it.

And remember to remove the Outlook icon from the desktop (which is not a
shortcut but a namespace addition to the desktop and why there is no
little curved arrow on the icon). If you leave it there, your dad is
going to use it and still end up with multiple instances of Outlook
running at the same time. Create a shortcut (or copy the one from your
Start menu or QuickLaunch toolbar) on the desktop for outlook.exe that
includes the /recycle command-line parameter.

To hide the Outlook namespace icon on the desktop, get TweakUI and use
its Desktop branch in the tree to deselect "Microsoft Outlook".
Otherwise, you're in the registry to remove the entry that defines the
namespace addition to the desktop and when you want it back then you're
back in the registry (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321777).

Make sure to add the /recycle parameter to ALL shortcuts used to start
Outlook: Start menu folders, QuickLaunch toolbar, desktop shortcut.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

FYI: Outlook 2007 doesn't add the Outlook icon to the Desktop anymore. The
last version that did that was Outlook 2002/XP and I believe Outlook 2003
did it only when installed on Windows 2000.



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[VanguardLH]

FYI: Outlook 2007 doesn't add the Outlook icon to the Desktop anymore. The
last version that did that was Outlook 2002/XP and I believe Outlook 2003
did it only when installed on Windows 2000.

Thanks for the update. Might have something to do with OL2003 being
Windows XP Certified (guess to be so means not installing a namespace
link on the desktop). But in OL2003, you can restore that desktop
object: http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20031111.htm. This
also works for OL2007.

For me, there has been no bang-for-the-buck to move up from OL2002. The
features added in OL2003 are available via add-ons and I'm not
interested in bloating my e-mails by getting forced to use Word 2007 to
compose e-mails in OL2007. I'll reevaluate when OL2010 GA (non-beta,
non-candidate, non-technical release) is released.

So the part about adding /recycle to *every* shortcut for Outlook still
applies to make sure Dad doesn't find one that results in multiple
instances of outlook.exe.