Prob. with Reminders

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Bert Newton

I have a question along about the reminders
coming up. I tried a suggestion from another post about
starting with "/clean reminders" and it did take care
of many old reminders coming up on a restart. However,
recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing. I
used to be able to close Outlook and reopen and then a
host of them would appear. Now I have to restart my
whole system and several still appear when I reopen
Outlook. Now, they may come up for a few hours and then
all of a sudden I realize none have appeared in hours or
a day or so. I have not changed any settings that I know
of and they always worked correctly in the past.
It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
pak when prompted back in august. Any ideas.
Bert
 
This update pack you got in August, did you get it from the Microsoft site
or did you open an attachment in an email allegedly from Microsoft?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:

| I have a question along about the reminders
| coming up. I tried a suggestion from another post about
| starting with "/clean reminders" and it did take care
| of many old reminders coming up on a restart. However,
| recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing. I
| used to be able to close Outlook and reopen and then a
| host of them would appear. Now I have to restart my
| whole system and several still appear when I reopen
| Outlook. Now, they may come up for a few hours and then
| all of a sudden I realize none have appeared in hours or
| a day or so. I have not changed any settings that I know
| of and they always worked correctly in the past.
| It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
| pak when prompted back in august. Any ideas.
| Bert
 
Milly,
I think it came up down on my tool bar as a notice from
MS that I had updates that I should install. I had been
out of town for a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure it
came from MS. I can't find anything in my deleted emails
that would lead me to think it came in an email.
bn
 
Just checking that you did NOT install any of the faked "patches" from "M$"
that are going around lately. You apparently, and rightly, use Automatic
Updates.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
| I think it came up down on my tool bar as a notice from
| MS that I had updates that I should install. I had been
| out of town for a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure it
| came from MS. I can't find anything in my deleted emails
| that would lead me to think it came in an email.
| bn
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| This update pack you got in August, did you get it from the
|| Microsoft site or did you open an attachment in an email allegedly
|| from Microsoft?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I have a question along about the reminders
||| coming up. I tried a suggestion from another post about
||| starting with "/clean reminders" and it did take care
||| of many old reminders coming up on a restart. However,
||| recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing. I
||| used to be able to close Outlook and reopen and then a
||| host of them would appear. Now I have to restart my
||| whole system and several still appear when I reopen
||| Outlook. Now, they may come up for a few hours and then
||| all of a sudden I realize none have appeared in hours or
||| a day or so. I have not changed any settings that I know
||| of and they always worked correctly in the past.
||| It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
||| pak when prompted back in august. Any ideas.
||| Bert
||
||
|| .
 
No, I have not installed anything from an email. But boy
have I been getting a host of viruses eliminated today by
my ISP since I have been on this newsgroup talking about
it. I don't have any idea where all this is coming
from. I downloaded updates this morning when I opened up
my Explorer set to MSN as my homepage. It opened to the
MS page and gave me updates I needed or could choose.
Everything I have done has always been from MS. I just
ran a complete scan again and Norton's says I am still
clean. Still hoping for an idea on my reminders.
bn
 
Just an FYI, it's a good idea to use a fake address in newsgroups. There are
programs that troll newsgroups for email addresses to spam.

For your reminder problem, do you have any add-ins installed in Outlook? Do
you sync with a PDA?

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP

Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

No, I have not installed anything from an email. But boy
have I been getting a host of viruses eliminated today by
my ISP since I have been on this newsgroup talking about
it. I don't have any idea where all this is coming
from. I downloaded updates this morning when I opened up
my Explorer set to MSN as my homepage. It opened to the
MS page and gave me updates I needed or could choose.
Everything I have done has always been from MS. I just
ran a complete scan again and Norton's says I am still
clean. Still hoping for an idea on my reminders.
bn
-----Original Message-----
Just checking that you did NOT install any of the faked "patches" from "M$"
that are going around lately. You apparently, and rightly, use Automatic
Updates.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
| I think it came up down on my tool bar as a notice from
| MS that I had updates that I should install. I had been
| out of town for a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure it
| came from MS. I can't find anything in my deleted emails
| that would lead me to think it came in an email.
| bn
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| This update pack you got in August, did you get it from the
|| Microsoft site or did you open an attachment in an email allegedly
|| from Microsoft?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I have a question along about the reminders
||| coming up. I tried a suggestion from another post about
||| starting with "/clean reminders" and it did take care
||| of many old reminders coming up on a restart. However,
||| recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing. I
||| used to be able to close Outlook and reopen and then a
||| host of them would appear. Now I have to restart my
||| whole system and several still appear when I reopen
||| Outlook. Now, they may come up for a few hours and then
||| all of a sudden I realize none have appeared in hours or
||| a day or so. I have not changed any settings that I know
||| of and they always worked correctly in the past.
||| It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
||| pak when prompted back in august. Any ideas.
||| Bert
||
||
|| .


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Thanks..... Yes, I do use Active Sync to sync with my
Dell Axim handheld.
bn
-----Original Message-----
Just an FYI, it's a good idea to use a fake address in newsgroups. There are
programs that troll newsgroups for email addresses to spam.

For your reminder problem, do you have any add-ins installed in Outlook? Do
you sync with a PDA?

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP

Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

No, I have not installed anything from an email. But boy
have I been getting a host of viruses eliminated today by
my ISP since I have been on this newsgroup talking about
it. I don't have any idea where all this is coming
from. I downloaded updates this morning when I opened up
my Explorer set to MSN as my homepage. It opened to the
MS page and gave me updates I needed or could choose.
Everything I have done has always been from MS. I just
ran a complete scan again and Norton's says I am still
clean. Still hoping for an idea on my reminders.
bn
-----Original Message-----
Just checking that you did NOT install any of the faked "patches" from "M$"
that are going around lately. You apparently, and rightly, use Automatic
Updates.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly,
| I think it came up down on my tool bar as a notice from
| MS that I had updates that I should install. I had been
| out of town for a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure it
| came from MS. I can't find anything in my deleted emails
| that would lead me to think it came in an email.
| bn
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| This update pack you got in August, did you get it from the
|| Microsoft site or did you open an attachment in an email allegedly
|| from Microsoft?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Bert Newton <[email protected]> asked:
||
||| I have a question along about the reminders
||| coming up. I tried a suggestion from another post about
||| starting with "/clean reminders" and it did take care
||| of many old reminders coming up on a restart. However,
||| recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing. I
||| used to be able to close Outlook and reopen and then a
||| host of them would appear. Now I have to restart my
||| whole system and several still appear when I reopen
||| Outlook. Now, they may come up for a few hours and then
||| all of a sudden I realize none have appeared in hours or
||| a day or so. I have not changed any settings that I know
||| of and they always worked correctly in the past.
||| It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
||| pak when prompted back in august. Any ideas.
||| Bert
||
||
|| .


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Bert,

I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Reboot, login, start outlook -
no reminders and all my custom settings were gone. Close outlook
immediately re-open outlook - get reminders. Here is what I found and how I
solved the problem on my computer. We are using Outlook 2002 (office XP) on
Win2000. When we first logon to our PC the network "pushes" a batch file
that is supposed to setup outlook if this is your first time running it.
The way it checks to see it it is your first time is by looking for the
following regestry key: hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\OST. If
that key is not there it will set a bunch of stuff in the regestry assuming
that it is you first time through. Well in the file they send down
"OXP_Settings.bat", I found mine in C:\temp\OXP_Registry_Tweaks, the piece
that created the regestry entry OST was commented out. I went in through
"regedit" and added the regestry key:
hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\OST. Just the key nothing else.
From that point my reminders worked and my custom settings stayed. I don't
know if that is the same thing happening on your PC but I thought I would
pass the info along.
One other symptom, if your proplem is the same as mine, was that when I
logged in, I would see a DOS window that would say something like:

Regestry setting not found.
Completed.
Completed.

Hope that helps
Scott
 
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