Outlook 2007: Minimize to System Tray

Contributed by Rob Rogers

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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.

61 Comments -

CHris said on October 22, 2008

Awesome tutorial, been looking for this feature everywhere!
Chad said on October 27, 2008

Wonderful! Thank you so much!
anon said on October 31, 2008

Thanks!
dojug said on November 4, 2008

thanks!
Janjang said on December 4, 2008

thanks… this what im looking for.. simple but i forgot how hehe
joshone said on January 12, 2009

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 said on February 17, 2009

Thanx!
Tamilan said on February 17, 2009

Thanks…
vIIsh said on February 21, 2009

Thanks ya
Kris said on February 24, 2009

awesome!!!!
tui said on February 26, 2009

Legend…… As they say in NZ, That man deserves a DB.
Nishad said on March 3, 2009

thanks… this what im looking for
yossi said on April 6, 2009

Thanks for this usefull tip!
Mike said on April 22, 2009

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

thanks for this step btw.
Markw said on May 6, 2009

Thanks Just what I was looking For
Chay said on May 12, 2009

Easy enough! Thanks!
Krish said on May 18, 2009

Simply awesome, hats off for the easy hint. Goodday mate :)
Saud said on May 21, 2009

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

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: SoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookPreferences
Name: MinToTray
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 = System Tray, 0 = Taskbar
guest said on May 23, 2009

thank you very much! was about to download 3rd party software to do this
moonoo said on June 23, 2009

hohoho, so simple, i’ve gone through every settings windows…
Thanks… :)
AA said on July 8, 2009

PERFECT
Prasad Natarajan said on August 10, 2009

thanks for the comments…
Name said on August 11, 2009

thanks!
Asfaq said on August 12, 2009

Just to tell you, this works on Outlook 2010 too. Thanks!
Name said on August 13, 2009

thanks fella, straight to the point and correct.
Travis said on August 28, 2009

Beautiful!
Ginzo said on August 31, 2009

Thanks for the tip.
Mojowo said on August 31, 2009

Very helpful, thanks.
Clay said on September 17, 2009

Man do I feel dumb! Thanks again
Omi said on October 23, 2009

Wow cool.!! Thx
HackTalk said on November 6, 2009

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
Anonymous said on December 12, 2009

Thankx
RayZorback said on January 12, 2010

wow! that totally didn’t make sense, but it worked! I thought it would hide the system tray icon, but it hides the long task bar icon when minimized! this is what you need.

THANKS!
Charnita Fance said on January 17, 2010

Thank you very much :)
Anonymous said on January 25, 2010

Thanks !
Hartwig said on February 10, 2010

Don’t do this!!! Rather close Outlook every time!
Every time you close Windows with Outlook 2007 still open (in the tray), it will report a corrupted PST file when you start Outlook the next time. It then proceeds to “restore” the PST file and loses mails.
Jay said on February 12, 2010

Thanks a lot… tried a lot but nothing worked…this one worked very well….
John said on February 18, 2010

Hartwig – you seem to have some other issue. I’ve used this option on Outlook 2000, 2003, and 2007, and never the issue you describe. (Of course, each version required a different version number – 10.0, 11.0, or 12.0 – in the registry key name).
John said on February 18, 2010

Not quite: “10.0″ in the key name affects Outlook 2000, “11.0″ affects Outlook 2003, and “12.0″ affects Outlook 2007.
Rahul said on February 19, 2010

Thanx…………….sooooooooooo easy, look all around but couldn’t find
Mike said on February 25, 2010

brilliant.. thank you
Harris said on February 26, 2010

Thank you so much :). Googled you… i searched all the options, and customizations, but it was right there in the task bar itself :)
Anonymous said on April 9, 2010

hehe so nice and tricky…

i’ ve never tried right clicking while it was on tray.
GM said on May 21, 2010

OMG! so simple, i’ve gone through every outlook setting!
THANKSS!!
Test said on September 28, 2010

THANK YOU!
Cpspmm said on November 10, 2010

I was looking for this for a long time. Thank you.
Iamch7 said on December 1, 2010

Great thank you so much. I looking for it for a while.
Rao said on January 18, 2011

Thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkks……………………..Love Youuuuuuuuuuu.
Henry said on February 2, 2011

Damn anoying place to keep that setting – on W7 you’ll have to find the tray icon between hidden icons to get to this setting.
I found it once before, but forgot where – thanks for sharing the info!
Namanxx said on March 16, 2011

thanks a lot
Roman Vasylovich said on May 17, 2011

Thanks
Rodriguesolid said on July 12, 2011

Thanks. It’s so simple… but i did not know
Amittomar19 said on July 13, 2011

Thanks a lot . it’s really help me
anounymous said on July 27, 2011

thanks for this tip!
anne said on August 12, 2011

Great! Thanks for the tip!
test said on August 24, 2011

thnks
Mani said on September 7, 2011

Great….. Thanks a lot
Shijith said on September 12, 2011

Thanks buddy
dan said on September 20, 2011

Thank you very much!
bob said on November 24, 2011

thanks!!
John T said on February 1, 2012

Thanks a million Rob!!

So bloody simple and yet Microsoft’s explanation was totally different and unworkable.

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