Outlook Express In The SysTray???

[Legacy 98055]

Hi all. I use Outlook Express as my mail client and would like to leave it open but not in the taskbar. Anybody know how to place it in the SysTray?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Zack Barresse]

You have to change the registry Tom. Google search will yield you instructions. There are also tools you can download to do this for you ..

http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et012405.htm

A free program...

http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html

Here is the regkey for minimizing OL to the sys tray (couldn't find the OE regkey I used a while back) ..

http://www.mydesktophelp.com/tips/out09.php

I'm sure you can figure it out how to do this to OE.. path should be something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Tom, don't forget that if you do change your registry (Start | Run | regedit), be SURE TO CREATE A BACKUP. Messing with the registry does not have an undo or save feature - you do it in RegEdit, it's done. Be careful, people have screwed their entire OS by messing with the registry and not knowing what they're doing.

HTH

 

[Legacy 98055]

Thanks firefytr
I thought maybe there was some simple API stuff. There is something like NotifyIcon I've used in VB. I'll look into my own solution because I would like to have some of Outlook Express' menu options available at a right click on the icon in the tray.

Thanks.

Tom