Outlook Tools
Many PC users are still working with Microsoft Outlook as their main email application. It's rather convenient because Outlook Express ships with the Windows operating system and the retail Outlook is part of Microsoft Office which is without doubt the most popular Office suite for the Windows system.
The biggest advantage of Outlook is in my opinion that it is already there. I was never a fan of it though and recommend Thunderbird or other third party email applications instead.
Outlook Tools is a software that gives access to advanced Microsoft Outlook settings that would otherwise be hard to access. You can use it for instance to unblock file extensions which is otherwise be only possible by editing the Windows Registry directly. Five tabs are accessible at the top of the software once it is started: they are General, Startup Switches, Clear MRU, New Mail Alert and Blocked Attachments.
Note: The program is currently only supporting Outlook versions up to Outlook 2010. The last update dates back to June 2010.
Most of the options are self explanatory like the Clear MRU option which simply clears several most recently used lists in Outlook such as the Search history.
Another interesting option it makes available is to set the duration of Outlook's desktop alert. It is set to seven seconds by default, and the program allows you to change that to another value in seconds, minutes, hours or even days.
The startup switches listing may also be useful. You can use it to start Outlook in safe mode for example, or to reset or clean various program settings or features.
The general tab lists the default paths to Outlook data and an option to open them in Windows Explorer. This can be useful if you need to check out that folder for example, or make modifications to files it contains.
The software runs independently from Outlook and automatically detects the installed version. Supported are all versions of Outlook since Outlook 2000. There is no word about Outlook Express on the page and I was not able to test it, I would think that it is supported as well to a degree at least.
Outlook Tools require the Microsoft .net framework and runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Here are some of the more important features it makes available:
- Change Outlook paths on the system
- Run Outlook tools like ScanPST or ScanOST
- Enable startup switches
- Configure for how long the new email desktop alert is displayed and how it is displayed
- Block or unblock file extensions so that you can access attachments that have these extensions.
Outlook Tools requires the Microsoft .Net Framework to be installed on the system to work. The latest version of Outlook it currently supports is Outlook 2010..
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!