When clicking the X button or ALT+F4, how can I get Outlook to minimze to the tray instead of close?
Several programs have this behavior, and it's annoying that Outlook behaves different...
When clicking the X button or ALT+F4, how can I get Outlook to minimze to the tray instead of close?
Several programs have this behavior, and it's annoying that Outlook behaves different...
I wrote a free plugin to minimize outlook instead of closing it. I only have outlook 2007 (works on 2010/2013 version as well) so that is all it has been tested with.
Anyone who wants to contribute to the project is free to do so
https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepoutlook/
With "Hide when minimized" active (not hard to find, just right click on the "O" icon in the tray)
Open outlook
Minimize outlook
Open outlook again (not from the tray, just do it the way you did it in step 1)
You can close that window with alt+f4 or the X or whatever and outlook will still be in the tray.
Hit ALT+Spacebar+N. I do that every day, and it is an easy combination.
This can work with, or without, the "Hide When Minimized" option selected.
Windows Key + Down Arrow
under Windows 7. If it is Maximized, this will first Normalize it, second press Minimizes it. I keep my window Normalized but stretched right to the edges.
Jul 5, 2013 at 18:30
You'll have to use a third party tool like OLKeeper
You may use Minime at http://www.saphua.com/minime/minime.aspx. It's free & open source.
Another two week trial add-in that does that (and more) is Quick Tweaks for Outlook. Just set the Minimize Outlook on close option. It is small and doesn't require any additional software/runtimes.
Please note that I recommend this add-in because I'm one of its developers.
I didn't have administrator access on my work computer, so I needed to create a way to install Tim Eck's add-in without administrator privileges.
I took Tim Eck's answer here and created an installer for it that:
You can download it here: https://github.com/theduffster/KeepOutlookRunning/releases/tag/zip-release
Instructions to Install are:
Note: You may have to change some of the paths in the .reg file depending on your version of outlook
Hopefully this will also help those who are having trouble installing Eck's add-in even with administrator privileges
Full Credits and more Details here: https://github.com/theduffster/KeepOutlookRunning
If the Alt + spacebar + N doesn't work for your keyboard layout (turned out not to work with mine - Polish Programmer), try:
Alt + spacebar + M
I totally free and reliable option is the Autohotkey.
Here there script that also restores outlook when #o is pressed. First, you have to set the option in outlook setting to minimize on tray.
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe olk.exe
^F4::
WinMinimize, A
return
!F4::
WinMinimize, A
return
#IfWinActive
#If WinExist("ahk_exe olk.exe")
#o::
WinActivate, ahk_exe olk.exe
WinMaximize, ahk_exe olk.exe
return
#If