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outlook 2003 - reminders window is empty

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14-Nov-2009, 09:46 AM #1
outlook 2003 - reminders window is empty
I've been moving between 2 computers - one running vista, the other xp.
When I moved outlook from the xp machine to the vista machine, I encountered several problems on the vista machine.

The big one right now is that, while all my tasks are there, and the overdue ones show up nicely,
when I VIEW my REMINDERS WINDOW
it is empty and should have the overdue items.

Can someone help me please?
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16-Nov-2009, 10:19 AM #2
Have you tried starting Outlook with the \cleanreminders switch?Close Outlook and Go to Start > Run and enter outlook /cleanreminders
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17-Nov-2009, 08:38 AM #3
partial solution
When I opened Outlook the 1st time back on my Vista machine, I think I opened the imap folder before the outlook.pst folder. This might have caused outlook to make the imap folder the default folder.
I fixed the problem (which resulted in the reminders window reappearing and several other problems clearing up too) by backing up and restarting - this time with only the outlook backup file available to outlook. Oh, I had to delete the imap folder from the list of email folders and declare my personal folder as my mail folder first.

One left-over problem: I have 2 imap folders and can't make the 2nd one go away. I get a warning that outlook can't find it, but if I ignore the request to locate it, outlook still loads and I'm ok.

Any ideas about how I can get rid of this last annoyance?

Or should I just upgrade to 2007?
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