Microsoft Outlook Search
Lookout is a lighting fast Microsoft Outlook search add-in. It was a favorite and popular product a few years ago. The company was bought by Microsoft who pulled the software and official website. The latest version of the Microsoft Outlook search add-in can still be downloaded from various software portals and it even works with Microsoft Office 2007 after making a small change to a local file.
Lookout indexes all Microsoft Outlook contents and provides a toolbar to search all emails, news feeds, appointments and attachments. It basically can index all contents of Microsoft Outlook to power the search. Advanced users will like the option to exclude folders from being indexed.
The Microsoft Outlook search add-in Lookout integrates itself nicely into Microsoft Outlook 2003 but needs a small tweak before it will work in Outlook 2007.
cd %SYSTEMROOT%\assembly\GAC
rename Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OLD
To reverse the changes one would issue the command
cd %SYSTEMROOT%\assembly\GAC
rename Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OLD Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook
The options of the Microsoft Outlook search add-on are quite extensive. It is possible to define a time range for the indexing process and to specify how fast new items should be added to the index.
Lookout will automatically index the contents of attachments with the endings txt, doc, html, htm, xls and ppt. My Document folders can be added to the search as well as additional files, folders and Microsoft Outlook folders.
Lookout is a fast lightweight Microsoft Outlook search add-in that's way faster than other solutions like Google's Desktop Search tool.
Update: The program has not been updated for a while, and it is recommended to use the built-in search option of Outlook instead as the program itself is not compatible with recent versions of Microsoft's email program. You can still make use of it if you are using an old version of Outlook on your computer.
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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!