Outlook 2010 is always on top of other applications, why?

Question

For some reason Outlook 2010 is "on top" of other applications... Does anybody how to stop this behavior?

Answer 1

Make sure that there are no add-ins installed.
Edit to answer comment, originally from noocyte: You can see all loaded Add-ins in Outlook via "File - Options - Addins". Use Windows Add/remove programs to remove then.

If nothing helps, try to re-install outlook.

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Another simple trick to try:

• Right click on Task Bar
• Click "Lock the taskbar"
• Then again click on "Lock the taskbar"
• Restart Outlook

Answer 2

I had a new Windows 7 32 bit laptop with a factory installed copy of Microsoft Office 2010.

When I would click on new email, the email would always pop up behind the Outlook window. Also when I would click on the Insert Attachement button, selected the file to attach, and clicked OK, no attachment would show up in the body of the email.

I installed Office 2010 service pack 1 and restarted the machine. I then installed a couple of pending Office 2010 security updates and rebooted the machine again.

Following the installation of the security updates both issues resolved themselves without disabling add-ons or making any registry changes.

Answer 3

Open regedit and change the load behavior value to 3 for each of your addins in the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins

Restart Outlook.

Answer 4

In my particular case, this started happening after I installed the Salesforce for Outlook add-in. I uninstalled it and everything was fished again.

Answer 5

I had the same problem, disabling the social connector add-in solved it. File->Options->Add-ins manage:COM Add-ins, click on Go... Uncheck the social connector add-in.