Outlook Icon on Taskbar or Notification area (System Tray)

To enable this feature, follow these steps:

   1.   Right-click on the Outlook icon in the System Tray:

   2.   Select Hide When Minimized from the menu.

Another way to make these settings:

   1.   Run the Regedit (Registry Editor).

   2.   Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preference subkey.

   3.   Select in the right pane the MinToTray parameter:

   4.   Press Enter to display the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value dialog box:

   5.   In the Value Data text box, enter the number:

• 0 - minimize Outlook to the Taskbar;
• 1 - minimize Outlook to the Tray.

   6.   Click the OK button to close the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value dialog box.

   7.   Choose File -> Exit to close Registry Editor.