Outlook needs to be open for the reminders to fire - if you colleague closed
outlook and still got reminders, he didn't really close it. He might have
outlook set to minimize to the notification area or something is keeping it
running hidden.

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"Alan B" Alan wrote in message
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I am having this same problem. My Outlook alerts only appear if I have an
Office application up.
I have a colleague who doesn't have this problem. I noticed that my
taskbar
looks different than his. Mine has the newer Windows 7 look with square
icons, while his looks more like the traditional Windows XP look with icon
and name of the application next to it. I don't know if this is related or
not.

I've also found that my IM alerts aren't as noticeable in Windows 7.