Reminder without Outlook?

[Mark]

Is there any way to get Outlook 2003 reminders without running Outlook 2003?

I remember the ancient Schedule used to have a background program that would
do this, as does GroupWise.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Mark,
I wish it did have a "baby version" that ran all the time as that sure would
be handy, but it does not, so you have to keep Outlook alive. At least my
iPaq PDA wakes up and reminds me.

 

[Mark]

I wish it did have a "baby version" that ran all the time as that
sure would be handy, but it does not, so you have to keep Outlook
alive. At least my iPaq PDA wakes up and reminds me.

Shucks, OK. I suspect this was the case, but thanks for confirming.

 

[Fred]

There is an add-in called "OUTLOCK" that I have used in the past. It has a
few bugs, but it will keep outlook running in the background for reminders.
I don't think it is being supported, but you can probably find a download
site.

Fred Jaynes

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

As mentioned Outlock just opens an Outlook session in the background
with no user interface. It has a smaller memory footprint than Outlook
with a UI but Outlook is still running in the background.

You could accomplish the same thing by running a script from a bat
file using the following code:
Dim oOL

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
oOL.Session.Logon
Set oOL = Nothing

And you could kill Outlook in the background if you haven't opened it
yourself and exited with the following code, which also could be run
from a bat file:
Dim oOL

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
oOL.Session.Logoff
oOL.Quit
Set oOL = Nothing