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Outlook 2007 email stuck on task bar

#1 User is offline   DVaD 

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  Posted 19 October 2009 - 12:34 PM

Hi all, I have been having this ridiculous problem at work. I'll open a new email then I'll close it, but on my windows XP task bar it's still there. It doesn't show up in task manager. I can right click it and hit close, but nothing happens. Same with restore and any other choice I have.

I found a few other threads like this around at various sites, but none have answers. I just figured I'd see if anyone has any ideas. It's not that big of a deal I can get rid of it by closing Outlook, but it's just a hasle having to re open it every hour or so.

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Posted 29 October 2009 - 10:41 PM

Open Task Manager, Click the Processes tab, right-click and end all instances of OUTLOOK.exe. After doing that hover the cursor over your Outlook tray icon and it should disappear.

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Posted 30 October 2009 - 01:45 PM

I can just close outlook normally and it will go away. I'm wondering if there's a way I can stop it from happening at all though.

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