Registry hack for keeping Outlook 2003 in same state as it was whenlast closed?

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Robert Gordon

Is there a registry hack that will allow me to keep Outlook, and any
opened email windows, in the same position and state that they were when
I last closed Outlook 2003? For instance, there are a number of
calendars and messages that I prefer to have open each time I restart
Outlook 2003. Is there a registry setting that will allow Windows XP
and Outlook 2003 to remember the state of all the opened windows?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

What do you mean exactly? Do you want them opened each time you open
Outlook, or do you mean when you have Outlook open, you want them to open in
the same position as the last time you accessed them?

If the former, there are command line options that you can use to open
Outlook the way that you want. I am sorry, I don't know them all since you
did not post what you wanted open each time you open Outlook. :


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After furious head scratching, Robert Gordon asked:

| Is there a registry hack that will allow me to keep Outlook, and any
| opened email windows, in the same position and state that they were
| when I last closed Outlook 2003? For instance, there are a number of
| calendars and messages that I prefer to have open each time I restart
| Outlook 2003. Is there a registry setting that will allow Windows XP
| and Outlook 2003 to remember the state of all the opened windows?
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

No, there is not a hack that will allow you to open email messages. Only the
main outlook window will open - you need to open individual items. If you
use file, exit and log off any outlook windows (calendar etc) open should
reopen though.

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Robert Gordon

Correct. As an example, say I have six or seven emails open, that I
want to make sure are opened each time I restart Outlook.

I ask because I have an exec who constantly has a dozen or more email
messages open, and rarely closes them. So when one of my techs needs
to do work on his system they currently have to record BY HAND, which
emails are open and then they have to reopen each of them by hand after
closing Outlook. I want to avoid this by finding some hack which
allows Outlook (or XP itself) to remember Outlook's last "state" before
it was closed, and returning it to that state upon restart.

Regards,

Rob Gordon
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Sorry - that is not possible.

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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, Robert Gordon asked:

| Correct. As an example, say I have six or seven emails open, that I
| want to make sure are opened each time I restart Outlook.
|
| I ask because I have an exec who constantly has a dozen or more email
| messages open, and rarely closes them. So when one of my techs needs
| to do work on his system they currently have to record BY HAND, which
| emails are open and then they have to reopen each of them by hand
| after closing Outlook. I want to avoid this by finding some hack
| which allows Outlook (or XP itself) to remember Outlook's last
| "state" before it was closed, and returning it to that state upon
| restart.
|
| Regards,
|
| Rob Gordon
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| What do you mean exactly? Do you want them opened each time you open
|| Outlook, or do you mean when you have Outlook open, you want them to
|| open in the same position as the last time you accessed them?
||
|| If the former, there are command line options that you can use to
|| open Outlook the way that you want. I am sorry, I don't know them
|| all since you did not post what you wanted open each time you open
|| Outlook. :
||
||
|| --
|| 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, Robert Gordon asked:
||
||| Is there a registry hack that will allow me to keep Outlook, and any
||| opened email windows, in the same position and state that they were
||| when I last closed Outlook 2003? For instance, there are a number
||| of calendars and messages that I prefer to have open each time I
||| restart Outlook 2003. Is there a registry setting that will allow
||| Windows XP and Outlook 2003 to remember the state of all the opened
||| windows?
 
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