Can I force confirmation prompt on close?

I am constantly accidentally pressing the close
button instead of "minimize" when I am at work.

I want Outlook to continue to run in the background.

Is there either a way to force confirmation of closure,
or to have an outlook background task set up
which doesn't close so easily?

Rufus

Can't think of any. But you can add a *Close Program* sound in
Control PanelSounds and Audio DevicesSounds. Pick a sound that's
really annoying.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~


"Rufus V. Smith" wrote in message
...
I am constantly accidentally pressing the close
button instead of "minimize" when I am at work.

I want Outlook to continue to run in the background.

Is there either a way to force confirmation of closure,
or to have an outlook background task set up
which doesn't close so easily?

Rufus

My cubicle neighbors would love that.

We don't have speakers attached to our workstations. I have headphones,
but I don't usually wear them.

Audible feedback wouldn't help me very much. Many of the times
the audible feedback is me, noticing my mistake and saying,
"aw****!"

Rufus

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Can't think of any. But you can add a *Close Program* sound in
Control PanelSounds and Audio DevicesSounds. Pick a sound that's
really annoying.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~


"Rufus V. Smith" wrote in message
...
I am constantly accidentally pressing the close
button instead of "minimize" when I am at work.

I want Outlook to continue to run in the background.

Is there either a way to force confirmation of closure,
or to have an outlook background task set up
which doesn't close so easily?

Rufus

A couple of options:

1) If you don't need to see the desktop, don't minimize at all. Just switch to the
application that you want to use.

2) Instead up using the mouse, use the keyboard. Hold down the Alt key while pressing the
Space bar to get the control menu. Then press the N key to minimize.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rufus V. Smith" wrote in message
...
I am constantly accidentally pressing the close
button instead of "minimize" when I am at work.

I want Outlook to continue to run in the background.

Is there either a way to force confirmation of closure,
or to have an outlook background task set up
which doesn't close so easily?

Rufus

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
A couple of options:

1) If you don't need to see the desktop, don't minimize at all. Just switch to the
application that you want to use.

2) Instead up using the mouse, use the keyboard. Hold down the Alt key while pressing the
Space bar to get the control menu. Then press the N key to minimize.


Or, if he has to use his mouse and he has a Taskbar active,
just click on the Taskbar icon. Hmm... with XP's new Taskbar grouping
it looks as if he would have to right-click the Taskbar icon and choose
Minimize group. Keyboard equivalent of that: Win-Tab,Menu-M

But good idea for him to change to using keyboard instead of mouse.
If he is hitting the Close box instead of the Minimize box (thus skipping
the Restore or Maximize box) there is probably a bigger problem than
just hitting the right spot with the mouse.

OTOH I usually often use that "Window menu" to maximize a window
and am continually disconcerted by the big X beside the the _Close (Alt-F4)
menu item since of course I am intending after opening the menu to press X.
Considering the proximity of X and C on a QWERTY keyboard layout
we might not be doing him any favors to get him thinking about using
that menu.




Robert
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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rufus V. Smith" wrote in message
...
I am constantly accidentally pressing the close
button instead of "minimize" when I am at work.

I want Outlook to continue to run in the background.

Is there either a way to force confirmation of closure,
or to have an outlook background task set up
which doesn't close so easily?

Rufus

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
A couple of options:

1) If you don't need to see the desktop, don't minimize at all. Just
switch to the
application that you want to use.

2) Instead up using the mouse, use the keyboard. Hold down the Alt key
while pressing the
Space bar to get the control menu. Then press the N key to minimize.


Or, if he has to use his mouse and he has a Taskbar active,
just click on the Taskbar icon. Hmm... with XP's new Taskbar grouping
it looks as if he would have to right-click the Taskbar icon and choose
Minimize group. Keyboard equivalent of that: Win-Tab,Menu-M


I think you are getting the wrong idea. When I say I accidentally close
outlook, it's
not because the buttons (or keys) are close together. I am deliberately
hitting the
close button.

My yahoo and windows and aol and antivirus programs all keep an icon in the
lower right corner, because they're still running, even when I "close" the
window.
I'd like outlook to have the same characteristics. If I want to really
terminate the programs, I right-click on their icons in the corner.


(omg! I meant to be talking about Outlook, not Outlook Express! Never
Mind.)

Rufus

& ^#*&%@(* Microsoft...

Hi Rufus,

I noticed this post is duplicated with another session. If you need further
help, please reply in the original session. For your convenience, I have
copied my reply as follows. Thanks fro your understanding.

Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.installation
From: (Alan Sun [MSFT])
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:19:02 GMT
Subject: Can I force confirmation prompt on close? Or tell Outlook to
run in background?

Hello Rufus,

Thanks for your posting here.

Outlook will close when you click the close button on Outlook.
Unfortunately, this behavior is by design. And there seems no way to change
it. However, you may have a new message opened to avoid closing Outlook by
mistaken as Diane suggested.

If you have other concerns or need further help. Just post back to let me
know.

Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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