Outlook Icon Disappears from System Tray When Minimized

[Andrew Morkunas]

I have the "Hide When Minimized" option selected on the Outlook icon in the
system tray. When I minimize Outlook, the icon at some point disappears
from the system tray. No, it is not in the "Hide inactive icons list." It
is not anywhere in the system tray. Using process explorer, Outlook is
running. The only way I can get back to Outlook is to launch another
instance.



I came across one solution to bring back missing icons in the system tray by
clearing the values IconStreams and PastIconStream located at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
but I do not like using such brute force tactics in the registry.







Windows Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

Outlook Version 12.0 Build 6316

 

[Sunny]

HI Andrew,
Can you backup and delete following registry keys and
check. these keys are safe to delete.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences
--- Outlook 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences
---- Outlook 2007.

Regards,
Sunny