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Re:Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billi... by Encosia on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:20PM (#4318835)
Could you point me toward that multiple instance tweak? That's something I've wanted for a while.
Re:Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billi... by robomartin on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @03:04PM (#4319072)
Here are my notes on that (I'm running Vista 64 Ultimate):

RUNNING MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF OUTLOOK

Download and install "ExtraOutlook.exe" from:

http://www.hammerofgod.com/download/ExtraOutlook.zip

Copy the executable to the folder where outlook lives. In the current case that means:

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\
Create a profile for each separate instance of Outlook we want to run:

To create and manage profiles in Vista 64 go to

  Control Panel > View 32-bit Control Panel Items > Mail > Show Profiles
Create or modify the Outlook shortcut on the desktop to access the desired profile:

Profile 1:

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 1"
Make a duplicate copy and then...

Profile 2:

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ExtraOutlook.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "Profile 2"
Now two instances of Outlook can be opened and each is independently accessing the corresponding profile's data.

I go through the extra effort of assigning a different icon to each account and placing them on the quick-launch toolbar. I've been doing this for about two years and it works great. No issues whatsoever.

I can't believe MS doesn't implement MDI in Outlook so that one can do this using tabs and a single instance.

Re:Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billi... by Encosia on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:38PM (#4319475)
Thanks for posting your notes. I'm running into a "Function not found in Import Table" error when I try that with Outlook 2010. Have you ever run into that?
Re:Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billi... by robomartin on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:13PM (#4319637)
No, I've never seen that. I'm running Office 2007.