If you’re a frequent user of outlook, and you have a lot of planning to do throughout the week, you more than likely have used the calendar, to remind you of appointments, meetings or anything you feel you need to be reminded of. These reminders are incredibly beneficial, but have found their ways to be incredibly stubborn. What I mean by this, is if you have a meeting that has already past, and you continue to get a reminder that you need to attend this meeting, no matter how many times you dismiss it; the reminder is probably stuck in your outlook profile. Luckily there are a couple tools to help us remove these reminders, which I will be showing you right now.
1. First tool, the easiest one of the two, is a simple Outlook command line switch that you run from the “run” application. It will look like this:
This command line switch will clear and regenerate reminders.
2. Tool #2, is called MFCMAPI, this can be downloaded from:http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/
This tool comes in handy when, the Outlook command line switch fails to clear out the reminders. And it looks like this.
As you can see, it is very empty, there are a couple steps we will need to take in order to get to where we need to be to delete these reminders.
2a. Click Session > Log on and Display store table, choose your main profile and click “ok”, this will show you your list of outlook data files on your computer. We want to choose your inbox, or “default store.”
2B. once you have found your default store, right click it and select “open store”, another window should open up and you will need to expand the “root-mailbox”, as shown in this image below.
Once the Root mailbox has been expanded, you will need to expand “finder”, there you will locate your reminders, as highlighted in the image above. Right click reminders and select “Open Contents Table. This is where you will be able to find the stubborn reminder and delete it from your outlook once and for all. Be careful in choosing the right one, once it is deleted, its GONE!
