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Outlook 2007: Minimize to System Tray

Contributed by shamanstears

March 7, 2007

Tagged: Microsoft Outlook

Free up room on your Task Bar by minimizing your Outlook to the System Tray.

1. Right-click on the Outlook icon in the Notification Area, next to the clock.

2. In the resulting menu, select Hide When Minimized.

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CHris

Awesome tutorial, been looking for this feature everywhere!

Chad

Wonderful! Thank you so much!

anon

Thanks!

dojug

thanks!

Janjang

thanks... this what im looking for.. simple but i forgot how hehe

joshone

Now that's how you help your fellow man out!... If only we could get rid of those blazing ads it would be perfect :)

Luuk

Thanx!

Tamilan

Thanks...

vIIsh

Thanks ya

Kris

awesome!!!!

tui

Legend...... As they say in NZ, That man deserves a DB.

Nishad

thanks... this what im looking for

yossi

Thanks for this usefull tip!

Mike

Great, now how do I get it to minimize to the task bar and NOT the system tray?

thanks for this step btw.

Markw

Thanks Just what I was looking For

Chay

Easy enough! Thanks!

Krish

Simply awesome, hats off for the easy hint. Goodday mate :)

Saud

Know the details ... here they are ... define a registry entry as mentioned here ...

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences
Name: MinToTray
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 = System Tray, 0 = Taskbar

guest

thank you very much! was about to download 3rd party software to do this

moonoo

hohoho, so simple, i've gone through every settings windows...
Thanks... :)

AA

PERFECT

Prasad Natarajan

thanks for the comments...

Name

thanks!

Asfaq

Just to tell you, this works on Outlook 2010 too. Thanks!

Name

thanks fella, straight to the point and correct.

Travis

Beautiful!

Ginzo

Thanks for the tip.

Mojowo

Very helpful, thanks.

Clay

Man do I feel dumb! Thanks again

Omi

Wow cool.!! Thx

HackTalk

Thanks for this, I'm typically a Thunderbird user but I was helping set up Outlook to an IMAP email for a diehard Outlook fan and couldn't figure out how to get it to minimize to system tray. I feel like a noob now but meh, what can you do.

Thanks again

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