Urbane Tiger wrote:

XP-Home SP3, Outlook 2007

Outlook disappears from the SysTray persistently. This is not due to
windows explorer crashing.

Is this a known defect.

I've not heard of it. The only time Outlook disappears from the tray for me
is when I close it. Do you have any error messages displayed? Does
anything appear in the Event log?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]