Thursday, July 21, 2005

Do a "Windows + M" when outlook is active window .....

I have noticed this behavior (seems like a bug) with Outlook 2003

When outlook main window is active, press Windows key + M (minimize all). Instead of outlook window getting minimized, it looses the focus and hence does not get minimized. This does not happen with any other office 2003 applications. I am using Windows XP. BTW, if I use right click on Taskbar ->Select Show the Desktop, outlook window gets minimized correctly. It seems that piece of code that handles active outlook for “Show the Desktop” function is not present for “windows button + M function when outlook is active window. A severiy 3 or 4 type of bug?

Any body observed this?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Works fine for me on WinXP and Outlook 2003.... make sure you have enough RAM, and there are no processes running in background that are frozen... Try after a fresh boot of the system, and only Outlook running.

Anonymous said...

Works fine for me on Windows XP and Outlook 2003.

Anonymous said...

I can confirm that this happens with Office 2003 SP2, but now that I've installed SP3 it seems to be fixed.