My Unread Outlook Message!!!!! SGADHGFASHDFA DA H FW
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Outlook 2010.
Note - with all the items marked read, it's still bold.
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Great, so I can choose if I want Outlook to annoy me always or only when it does unreasonable things...
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Exactly.
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I made the mistake of starting it up once (looking for the real Skype). ONCE. Now I can't get it to stop launching, despite not having set up an Outlook profile.
edit: for completeness...
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Reading this thread is making me realize one thing :
I am so glad I got a job that doesn't force me to use any MS product
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One of my pet peeves with Outlook (2010): I get a meeting invite, I read it, accept the invite, and Outlook moves it to the "Deleted Items", still marked as unread...
But isn't that because the default is to mark as unread when you switch messages? I changed it years ago to "mark as read after viewing for 0 seconds" and stuff gets marked as read as soon as I click on it.
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So in other words, I have to go into what is essential Advanced Configuration Settings, hunt around, and then it will just work?
Why not just put it as an option straight on the initial screen (a la, Actual Skype)?
Oh wait, they broke that too...
Filed under: Why are people constantly removing the idiot-proofness of things?
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So in other words, I have to go into what is essential Advanced Configuration Settings, hunt around, and then it will just work?
Not really... "Personal" is the selected category by default when you open the settings, so it's one click to get there, one click to disable the automatically start option, and a few more clicks to Ok and exit.
If you don't fully exit, it'll run in the background under its system tray icon, but only until you reboot and it doesn't bother you if you're not signed in.
edit: actually the one thing that is sort of confusing and is that, although clicking the  icon opens the options window, if you click the ▼ next to it then Options is hidden under an extra submenu:
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All I'm saying is that it's (unfortunately) too much for my little siblings, my parents, and grandma to handle. And they're mostly good about that!
Filed under: Just because it's as easy as pressing Ctrl-Esc doesn't mean people won't whine about a missing "Windows Key"
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If they can't put forth the effort to learn that something that constantly bothers them can be stopped permanently, then they can just live with it constantly bothering them. That's okay with me too.
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That's okay with me too.
I would be fine with it, if they didn't panic every so often and get me to "get back my Skype".What's weird is that I set it in the Office installer settings that Lync was supposed to be unavailable. Apparently Microsoft missed the memo that there is no Lync server, and that I don't want Lync installed on my machines, and that I told it not to come up ever, and just went ahead and Windows Update'd it onto the machines.
Filed under: Someday I'm going to install WSUS, but not now...
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Just because it's as easy as pressing Ctrl-Esc doesn't mean people won't whine about a missing "Windows Key"
WIN+R Open run dialog box
CTRL+ESC+R Does not open run dialog box
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@Lorne_Kates said:
WIN+R Open run dialog box
Said users that might whine about a missing
windows keyflag won't know that it can also be used as a modifier for shortcuts.Also:
You're if Ctrl-Esc, R doesn't open the Run Dialog box.
Filed under: Unfortunately, MS went insane after XP and it's More Difficult to do after that release...
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You're if Ctrl-Esc, R doesn't open the Run Dialog box.
That's a key combo followed by a character (and possibly another, if you have to press Enter), versus a two-key shortcut. Not the same.
Plus WIN+R opens the Run... dialog. Not opens the start menu so you can get at the run dialog.
Also, because of Windows 7, what you propose does this:
http://i.imgur.com/bvSoV5m.png
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I do apologise for failing so hard at pedantry. I'll get better, in time.. maybe.
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although clicking the  icon opens the options window
Actually, it seems to open the menu bar, but in context menu form.
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That's if you click the ▼ next to the . Clicking the  opens the Options window.
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But isn't that because the default is to mark as unread when you switch messages?
I suppose it is; didn't even occur to me that might be configurable, and it doesn't bother me enough to go hunting for such an option. It just seems kind of stupid. Also, isn't moving it to trash switching messages? I'm not viewing it anymore once it's done, after all.
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Also, isn't moving it to trash switching messages?
Apparently not for the purpose of marking it read. That's actually why I switched to "viewed for 0 seconds", because my Deleted Items was full of "unread" messages.
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Am I the only person who doesn't care if there are deleted items which are unread?
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Probably.
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Am I the only person who doesn't care if there are deleted items which are unread?
OH MY GOD YOU ARE A NAZI.
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@loopback0 said:
Am I the only person who doesn't care if there are deleted items which are unread?
OH MY GOD YOU ARE A NAZI.
First they came for the unread deleted items, and I didn't speak up.
But it didn't matter, because they came with thermonuclear weapons. They got everyone all at once. Pretty much the entire city was vaporized.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
But it didn't matter, because they came with thermonuclear weapons. They got everyone all at once. Pretty much the entire city was vaporized.
But the unread deleted items persist nonetheless. (The datacenter is built down a disused mine for some odd reason.)