The infinite Outlook Paradox
Posted by XeonVega@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 50 comments
Hi again,
first day, second story - as I already mentioned in the comments of the last one:
This story is about a Lady that falls into the category "If she can do it, everyone can do it" and "earns twice the amount you make, but can´t create a .pdf if their life would depend on it"
So, one day I get a ticket from said Lady complaining about the speed of her notebook.
Also even tho she would mark mails as "seen" or create appointments in here calender, sometimes they would simply not appear or the mail would still be listed as "new".
Since we actually get quiet a lot of complains from her (she is the type that overreacts fast and clicks onto programms multiple times when they dont open up in a nanosecond) I didn´t even bother asking question and went straight to her desk.
At her notebook, I check to see if there are any signs (low space on the SSD, high CPU or RAM usage etc.)
Looking into all the programms I see Outlook.exe (42) and immidiately ask her why she has 42 instances of Outlook opened up.
She replied that "thats the way she always done it, since the notebook is so slow that new mails and appointments would only be visible when she opens a new one"
Standing there in disbelieve and holding my tears back, I only replied that opening it that often would only lead to problems and asked her not to do that anymore.
Surprisingly I haven´t gotten a ticket from her for that topic ever since, but she still does it (saw it while being in a meeting with her)
Welp - you can´t help people that dont want to be helped!
Double_Lingonberry98@reddit
Outlook doesn't just go to the open instance? Did Microsoft fall so low? I think you need to force her to use a web Outlook.
XeonVega@reddit (OP)
If I force her to do anything in the internet, I´m afraid she might delete it somehow.
intellectual_printer@reddit
"If you type google into Google you will break the internet"
I'm confident said user would believe this.
bstrauss3@reddit
No...
To get to Google, open yahoo.com and SEARCH for Google.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
And use Google on Chrome to search for Bing
sarcastic_marmot@reddit
Does anyone ever want to search for Bing?
pockypimp@reddit
The 365 Desktop app works fine from the taskbar at least. But if you go to the Start Menu or whatever they call it now and click on the app there it does launch a new instance of it.
Double_Lingonberry98@reddit
"Unpin from Start Menu", "Pin To Taskbar"
Mr_ToDo@reddit
I had to check just to see for myself and, yes, outlook(classic at least, didn't check new) does indeed let you have multiple instances open. I'm actually kind of shocked, I have no idea what the use case is for that.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
I mean, I have 69 tabs on chrome open, but I do know how to go back, refresh and close tabs once in a while
ChickensInTheAttic@reddit
turns off monitor so you can't see the 1000+ tabs I have open....
ExtraKinkyKitten@reddit
I mean... My record is about 2.4k. that is not an exaggeration.
Dumbname25644@reddit
I start closing tabs when I can't even see the first letter of the web page header in the tab. How the hell do you find anything with so many open tabs? How do you not have dozens of the same page already opened?
WackoMcGoose@reddit
Rookie. That's when you open a new window and start making new tabs there. The browsing history must grow!
ExtraKinkyKitten@reddit
Oh I definitely had duplicates. That new Firefox thing where you can close duplicates has helped a little bit, as well as an addon for organizing tabs called Sideberry that a friend made me install after seeing the 2.4k XD. It lets you sort them in different categories and do fancy things like automatically moving tabs to the correct category if they meet some defined criteria. Also, Firefox just scrolls the top bar if you have too many tabs instead of making them too small lol.
boo_jum@reddit
… how?
ExtraKinkyKitten@reddit
I don't think you want to know. (In all seriousness, I have a very bad habit of not closing tabs and just adding more and more)
boo_jum@reddit
Haha, fair. I found out that safari (at least the iOS version) caps out at 500 tabs (per tab group) 😹
ExtraKinkyKitten@reddit
I think Firefox does (or at least used to) on mobile as well. I vaguely remember the new tab button just vanishing once you hit too many
StitchOni@reddit
Work or personal is the burning question xD
NotPrepared2@reddit
I thought my 117 tabs was bad
Chakkoty@reddit
Nice
MidLifeEducation@reddit
69 tabs of Chrome... Do you know which one the ad is playing from?
ALazy_Cat@reddit
There's this sound icon showing on a tab if there's any sound
AshleyJSheridan@reddit
That only works if you only have a few tabs open (comparative to your browser window size). When you get to about 100 tabs, the tab size shrinks down and you can barely see anything on the tab except the close button.
There might be an option to make it more like Fx though and have scrollable tabs, not sure, I don't use Chrome all that much.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
I still get it with 70 tabs. You must have it in a small window on a tiny screen
AshleyJSheridan@reddit
Is 1920px small?
Also, 100 > 70, just saying.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
And the sound icon replaces the website icon
AshleyJSheridan@reddit
Depends which tab is playing. Tested just now, 100 tabs, with the last one playing the music. Switched back to a different tab, and now I can't even see the final few tabs in the tab bar, yet it's still playing.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
Like I said, I can with 70. My screen can't show 100
AshleyJSheridan@reddit
Fx handles it better, and allows you to scroll the open tabs. It also doesn't squash the size of the tabs down until they become useless.
androshalforc1@reddit
But if you have that many tabs there’s no room for the icon.
Loko8765@reddit
You open the list of tabs with the V top right, and tabs using mic or camera are at the top.
ALazy_Cat@reddit
I don't need that list for the first 80 or so tabs
Loko8765@reddit
I do, because I prefer not have more than 20–30 or so tabs per browser window… but when moving between desks sometimes I lose track of the browser windows!
ALazy_Cat@reddit
There is. I guess my screen is bigger than yours
osricson@reddit
Ad? What is that?
NotTheOnlyGamer@reddit
The thing that's about to happen after MV3 is in full swing.
MidLifeEducation@reddit
Ad... Advertisement
osricson@reddit
In your browser? Not blocked?
gijoe438@reddit
I worked with someone who would have that many tabs open, and then bookmark them all at the end of the day into their own folder in case he wanted to pick up where he left off.
He never did
Merkuri22@reddit
And Chrome has gotten better about not using memory for tabs you haven't interacted with for a while. So it isn't as much of an issue today to have a million tabs open.
BrokenFerrariFan@reddit
Outlook brings out the worst in people. While I never encountered, I had so many people running into the 50GB pst/ost file size limit it wasn‘t funny anymore. This is the reason why we mandated the switch to new outlook, which thank god doesn‘t support Exchange caching
MrAkai@reddit
My favorite outlook users are the "I never empty the trash because I use it as an archive" ones.
rickbb80@reddit
I see you’ve met my EVP COO of manufacturing.
BrokenFerrariFan@reddit
Thank god for GPOs. We set automatic delete to 30 days in the trash which they are warned about on the day they enter the company and in the document they have to sign when we hand over the hardware.
glenmarshall@reddit
This is where a script would be useful. The trigger is opening outlook.exe. The script then shuts down all but one instance of outlook.exe.
pockypimp@reddit
Yes but then you have to get her to change what she's clicking on to open Outlook.
DarkJarris@reddit
Make a shortcut, call it outlook, change the icon, off it in the same spot on the desktop
thepfy1@reddit
Having multiple instances of Outl9ok is a recipe for disaster.
I can remember when we moved from PS4 / XPe to Xenapp, the issues caused by people accidentally running multiple copies of Outlook.
For those, who don't know, prior to Xenapp, Citrix used icons which required double click to open. With Xenapp, the interface was web links so only needed a single click.