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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off hide the Outlook icon on the taskbar when Outlook is minimized for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows.

When Outlook for Windows is running, the Outlook icon will show on the taskbar by default, and the Outlook notification icon will show on the taskbar system tray by default.

You can choose to hide the Outlook icon on the taskbar when minimized to save space on the taskbar. Clicking on the Outlook notification icon when Outlook is minimized will restore Outlook.

If you pin to taskbar the Outlook for Windows app, the Outlook icon will always show on the taskbar even with Hide When Minimized turned on.



EXAMPLE: Outlook icon on taskbar

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Here's How:

1 Open the Outlook for Windows app.

2 Right click on the Outlook notification icon on the taskbar system tray. (see screenshots below)

3 Click/tap on Hide When Minimized to check (on) or uncheck (off - default) it for what you want.

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That's it,
Shawn Brink


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I'm afraid is partially broken since at least 3-4 updates ago: now when clicking on the tray bar icon, this won't bring up the Outlook (new) window but will only pop-up the icon in the taskbar (and you have to do a 2nd click in the taskbar to open it finally). Before it worked fine: one click on the tray bar icon and it opened main window as expected :cautious:
 

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I have a script in Java, that functions good with outlook starting in tray i use outlook 2024

Task in tasksheduler

Name: _outlook_tray

User with most power
Startup with logon
"C:\Windows\System32\Wscript.exe" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\outlook_tray.js" /nologo

Scipt outlook_tray.js:

Code: 
var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
WshShell.Run("OUTLOOK.EXE", 3, false);
var ol = WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application");
ol.ActiveExplorer().Activate();
ol.ActiveExplorer().WindowState = 1; // 1 = normaal
WScript.Sleep(30000);
if (WshShell.AppActivate("Microsoft Outlook")) {
    explorer.WindowState = 0; // geminimaliseerd
    explorer.WindowState = 1; // terug naar normaal
}
 

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