Reminders only pop up when Outlook is open

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Hi, I've just migrated my diary/contacts from Palm Desktop to Outlook 2003.
(You can see that I'm not the most up to date!) I'm a bit startled to find
that I seem to need to keep outlook open the whole time in order to get my
calendar reminders. Normally, I like to collect my emails twice a day, and
the rest of the time outlook stays closed.

Is there any way to avoid having outlook open the whole time, or at least to
get the program to pop down into the notification area so it's not
cluttering up my taskbar? Are there any 3rd party apps. that deal with the
alarms, perhaps?

Thanks for any help.

By the way, for backup I've been copying the outlook.pst file. Is there
anything else I should be copying?
 
GB said:
Is there any way to avoid having outlook open the whole time, or at least to
get the program to pop down into the notification area so it's not
cluttering up my taskbar? Are there any 3rd party apps. that deal with the
alarms, perhaps?
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How do you expect a program to do anything when it isn't running?

Right-click on the Outlook tray icon when Outlook is running. Select to
minimize to the system tray. That's *minimize* to the system tray. If
you exit Outlook then it exits as you requested. So remember to
minimize if you want to leave Outlook running.
 
VanguardLH said:
How do you expect a program to do anything when it isn't running?
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Well, it's possible to close the main programme and leave a small programme
running to deal with alarms. That's what the palm desktop does. Or outlook
could close but queue up any alarms in scheduler.

Right-click on the Outlook tray icon when Outlook is running. Select
to minimize to the system tray. That's *minimize* to the system
tray.
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Brilliant, thanks!
 
GB said:
Well, it's possible to close the main programme and leave a small
programme running to deal with alarms.
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And that still requires a program to be running to handle the alarms.
You can Google to find LOTS of e-mail monitors. However, you'll find
most of them consume 8KB, or more, of memory and that's what Outlook
consumes when it has been minimized to a tray icon. Outlook will
release its UI resources when its window is not displayed. However,
many e-mail monitors use the same amount of memory whether their window
is displayed or not.
That's what the palm desktop does. Or outlook
could close but queue up any alarms in scheduler.
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And that requires the Task Scheduler service is running. That's just
another program. There are a lots of functions available in Outlook's
calendaring code that are not available with the Task Scheduler.
Brilliant, thanks!
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You're welcome.
 
VanguardLH said:
And that still requires a program to be running to handle the alarms.
You can Google to find LOTS of e-mail monitors. However, you'll find
most of them consume 8KB, or more, of memory and that's what Outlook
consumes when it has been minimized to a tray icon. Outlook will
release its UI resources when its window is not displayed. However,
many e-mail monitors use the same amount of memory whether their
window is displayed or not.
Click to expand...

At the moment task manager reports 27,108k in use by Outlook, even though
it's minimised. I agree though that it does seem to go down to 2,000 to
3,000k normally when minimised, which is nowhere near as bad as I expected.
So, overall, I'm pretty happy.

Thanks again for your help!
 
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