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These gadgets are no longer available from Microsoft's Gadget Gallery. In a quick test, moving gadgets from one computer to another works (nothing is installed in the registry or elsewhere.) This means if you have a computer with a gadget installed, you can copy the gadget folder to other computers. The gadgets are at %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows  

Step-by-step instruction to convert from Outlook Express on an older computer to Microsoft Outlook on a new computer with Windows 7 or Windows 8.

The Social connector will be removed from Office 365 / 2019 in mid-2020. This will remove the People pane from Outlook. Much of the original Social connector is gone from Outlook: all of the "social providers" (Facebook, LinkedIn, SharePoint integration) were removed. All that is left is (in my opinion) the best, most useful piece:  

Protected view is a new security feature for all Office documents which arrive in email or are downloaded from Internet sources. This is a security sandbox used by Office 2010 to enhance attachment security. Administrators will be able to control whether all email attachments or only those from outside their Exchange network use Protected view.  

Use the View Settings dialog to apply conditional formatting rules to messages in Outlook 2010 and above. In older versions, it's the Customize view dialog or Organize pane.

SP2 contains a number of performance-based improvements for Outlook users. Pain points which were addressed include starting up and shutting down Outlook, switching between folders with large numbers of messages, calendar reliability and consistency, and general responsiveness when performing common tasks around managing e-mail, calendar, and other information. In short, Outlook should run faster and  

When printing a monthly calendar in Outlook 2007, the appointment subject lines don't wrap and the end times are not included in the printout. This is the result of an update. Uninstall the update to fix.

Note: This update was re-released January 11, 2011 (still as KB 2412171). It's highly recommended that users install this one, even if they aren't experiencing problems with the December version of the update. The December 14, 2010 update (KB 2412171) which was automatically installed using Windows updates, causes a number of problems, including slowness switching  

Viruses can involve current versions of Microsoft Outlook in only one way: A user open a virus-infected attachment received via an Outlook e-mail message. Because this is the most common way viruses spread, many system administrators block certain attachments at the server or use the Outlook Email Security Update to block such attachments at the  

How to remove the Most Recently Used (MRU) lists from Outlook. This includes the Location field in Appointments and Open other user's folder list.