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Lookout Express
(1) Open Outlook Express; (2) Open the Address Book; (3) Select a Contact; (4) Press the Action button; (5) Select the Send Mail option; (6) Try to minimize the resulting message window. Freaky, eh?
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20 Comments
Anonymous
August 16th, 2002
at 11:55am
Very freaky! howd you find this?
Anonymous
August 16th, 2002
at 11:59am
Whoa, that's odd. Sounds like something you should send to Microsoft then you get to feel special knowing you helped make the next version of OE. Or something…
Anonymous
August 16th, 2002
at 12:04pm
Elementary my dear Chris..
the minimise button greyed out. Damn!
Anonymous
August 16th, 2002
at 12:25pm
Hi Chris- I like your show. I also saw you at the Garlic festival – my geek boyfriend was in awe (so was I, but to a lesser extent). Don't you feel special now? Oh yes, your trick is freaky. thanks!
Anonymous
August 16th, 2002
at 12:54pm
but… it… should… what… the… ok… but… what about… developers developers developers devlopers. Got to love consistancy
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 12:20am
I think they put stupid little quirks like this so people like us can wonder if there complete freaking idots
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 12:20am
I think they put stupid little quirks like this so people like us can wonder if there complete freaking idots
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 6:54am
The same trick works in Outlook 2000. That is so weird.
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 7:35am
Mc Donalds has cappichino. Maybe a starbucks. Mc Donalds cappichino is really good!
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 1:07pm
Strange. Can't honestly think of a reason why the minimise button should be greyed out…
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 2:04pm
yeah dude i almost crapped my pants i was so freaked out. anyway, i tried out the audio blog thing on my blog. it's pretty cool. check it out.
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Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 3:04pm
Thats pretty odd hey!
Enjoy ur weekend!
Anonymous
August 17th, 2002
at 10:15pm
Strange… it doesn't do it on my Outlook 2000 but it does in Outlook Express. Could it be an OS issue? I'm using 98SE/IE6. Does it do it in earlier versions of IE/Outlook Express?
Anonymous
August 19th, 2002
at 7:17am
hey! My comment was supposed to be in the last post… Odd!
Anonymous
August 21st, 2002
at 5:58am
Nifty!
Hey, dig this, have you noticed this cool improvement… Say an IE window goes haywire. You CAD and use Task Mgr to close the offender. In Win2k, this would kill all open IE windows, even if you selected to kill _just_ the rouge winder. But in XP, only the window you select goes down.
I can't recall if that problem existed in 9x, most likely but I've managed to block out most memories from that era. Eeecch!
All the windows closing would not have been a big deal if IE had the “Continue Browsing Where I was Last Time” feature present in Opera… But when you're 20 clicks deep into a multi-window surf…losing all those pages can be a pain.
Sorry, just had to share my joy…
Anonymous
August 21st, 2002
at 4:27pm
Your right about how it kills all the IE windows in windows 95,98,ME
I am using ME and IT DRIVES ME UP A CRICK when that happens.
(if anyone actually is reading this, emai me and SEND ME A COPY OF WINDOWS XP (i know your all nice folks)
Anonymous
November 10th, 2002
at 12:00am
hmmm…let me try…
Anonymous
November 10th, 2002
at 12:02am
uh..wha…uh….ahh..hmm…..jesus!
them damn developers!
Markus Diersbock
March 14th, 2008
at 2:40pm
There is good reason for this.
The window is modal (child of the spawning window). You are unable to click on any parent windows while a child is displayed. All modal windows act in this fashion.
If Windows allowed you to min this window, you’d wonder why you couldn’t click on any of the other windows in the program.
This is by design and very logical.
louanna sonafrank
September 2nd, 2008
at 1:01pm
how do i get to my outlook express mail???