Thursday, July 09, 2009

How to Fix Outlook "Restore Down" resize window problem

Are you having trouble with Outlook 2007 after you click the "restore down" button? Is Outlook minimizing to nothing more than a tiny bar, forcing you to always run Outlook in full screen mode, not letting you resize the window?

It took me awhile to figure this out, but here is the solution. Simply right-click on the minimized Outlook bar and choose "resize." Now you can resize Outlook how you wish.

Have a great day.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

1.maximise outlook/whatever program
2.unlock toolbar
3.drag toolbar up one
4.minimise outlook/whatever program
5.put your toolbar back
6.restore outlook/whatever program
7.resize it to the size you want

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU SO MUCH -
This was one of the most aggravating bugs!

Anonymous said...

Thank you It has been very frustrating!

Anonymous said...

IT WORKS!! This has driven me nuts for 2 days!! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thank you! I just had this problem on Win 8 and this solution worked for my Outlook re-size problem. I right-clicked on the "tiny bar" and then clicked on "size".

Anonymous said...

Thanks! It worked. Thanks for presuming that others would also have this problem. Saved me a lot of time.

Anonymous said...

See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/94

It worked for me!

Anonymous said...

What a relief! Surprizing how inefficient I was with my mail full screen. Thank you so much for posting!

Unknown said...

Thanks for the info, it save a lot of time.

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Thank you!!! This was driving me crazy

One Bad Ladd said...

Thank you!!

Anonymous said...

Yayyy - thank you so much.
I have no idea what I did to make this annoying tiny bar appear, but your solution was the perfect one.

Thank you for saving me ages of angst.

Anonymous said...

HOORAY! You made my day with this fix :)

Anonymous said...

thank you so much for the simple quick fix. It was annoying not being able to minimize the so you could be working on other things but still see your email.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work for me ... :(

Anonymous said...

2018 and your 2009 post still helpful!! Thank you.

Anonymous said...

https://www.justanswer.com/computer/1741b-microsoft-outlook-restore-down-not-working-properly.html

This helped me! Right Click on the "task bar" find "Cascade Windows".... Thats it!

After a month of dealing with just a full screen window it is so nice to have this back!