Reminders - must Outlook be running?

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Terry Pinnell

Probably embarrassingly obvious, but ... must I have Outlook 2002
actually running permanently in order to get reminders and their sound
alarms at the set time please?

I had assumed not, and that they used Windows Scheduled Tasks
facility. But today I did not get one of the few reminders I had
entered, although I was sitting at my PC at that time. Yet when I
loaded Outlook later it displayed after a while, with a message that
it was now an hour or so overdue.

If I *must* have Outlook running, that seems excessively wasteful, as
I use it only for occasional appointment and task reminders.
 
Terry said:
Probably embarrassingly obvious, but ... must I have Outlook 2002
actually running permanently in order to get reminders and their sound
alarms at the set time please?

I had assumed not, and that they used Windows Scheduled Tasks
facility. But today I did not get one of the few reminders I had
entered, although I was sitting at my PC at that time. Yet when I
loaded Outlook later it displayed after a while, with a message that
it was now an hour or so overdue.

If I *must* have Outlook running, that seems excessively wasteful, as
I use it only for occasional appointment and task reminders.
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In order for Outlook to do *anything*, it has to be running.

Alias
 
Terry Pinnell said:
Probably embarrassingly obvious, but ... must I have Outlook 2002
actually running permanently in order to get reminders and their sound
alarms at the set time please?
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Yes, of course.
If I *must* have Outlook running, that seems excessively wasteful,
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Wasteful of what?
 
Kathy said:
CPU RESOURCES!!! MEMORY USE!!
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Outlook 2007, currently running and minimized, is taking 26 MB RAM and NO
CPU resources. if you cannot spare 26 MB RAM then you need more - LOTS more.
 
Gordon said:
Outlook 2007, currently running and minimized, is taking 26 MB RAM and NO
CPU resources. if you cannot spare 26 MB RAM then you need more - LOTS more.
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Outlook 2002 takes about 18 MB. I maintain that is extremely wasteful
for an application that is merely waiting to pop up a message in two
week's time to remind me of an appointment. I have major applications
running which use less than that!
 
Terry Pinnell said:
Outlook 2002 takes about 18 MB. I maintain that is extremely wasteful
for an application that is merely waiting to pop up a message in two
week's time to remind me of an appointment. I have major applications
running which use less than that!
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As I said, if you think that 19 MEGAbutes is "wasteful" then maybe you
should go back to DOS 4 and an IBM XT and do everything in 640k RAM....
That's a very silly statement in today's climate of 2 GIGABYTES of RAM being
standard.....
 
Gordon said:
As I said, if you think that 19 MEGAbutes is "wasteful" then maybe you
should go back to DOS 4 and an IBM XT and do everything in 640k RAM....
That's a very silly statement in today's climate of 2 GIGABYTES of RAM
being standard.....
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On Vista machines, 2 GB is the minimum. With XP, one gig is plenty.

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