In Outlook 2003, I have enabled the setting “show an envelope icon in the notification area”. With this setting enabled, whenever I get a new email, an envelope is displayed in the Windows system tray. I like this feature because it is less obtrusive and distracting than the methods of new email notification (e.g. Desktop Alerts, playing a sound, etc).
The only problem with this setting is that, by default, the envelope icon gets displayed even when the new email is spam (i.e junk email). …Continue reading » How to Hide the Outlook Envelope Icon When You Get Spam
I use Cobian Backup to automatically backup my Outlook mail file (i.e. PST file) as well as other types of files. There is a catch with backing up PST files with Cobian Backup — Outlook cannot be running. If Outlook is running, Cobian will not backup the PST file because it will be locked by Outlook.
Luckily, Cobian has a feature called “events”, which can be used to run arbitrary tasks before and/or after a backup job. I use this feature to kill Outlook before running my backup job, which removes the file lock and allows Cobian to backup the PST file.
If you want to use this feature to kill Outlook, the first step is to create a batch file that can kill Outlook from the command line. I called my batch file “kill_outlook.bat”. Here are the contents: …Continue reading » How to Kill Outlook Before Backing Up Your PST file
