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How to scrub Outlook clean post-DavidCo?

I think after I removed the David Allen outlook add-in because I didn't like it enough to pay money for it (on the one Windows machine I have in my life, at the office, in a drawer) it left a bunch of cruft that gets in the way in Outlook.

When I go into Tasks in Outlook 2003? I have a bunch of saved views and such off to the side that I cannot get rid of. I don't know where the heck they live, and I even installed GTD Outlook stuff again thinking I uninstalled it wrong.

If I'm talking crazy I'll post a screenshot, I don't have it handy.

TOPICS: Windows
emory's picture

You're not talking crazy emory,...

ewand wrote:
You're not talking crazy emory, I had exactly the same problem.

To remove the GTD views from Tasks, go to
View->Arrange By->Current View->Define Views

This brings up the Custom Views Organizer. You can delete all the views you no longer want from there.

Onigaishimasu!

I'll give this a shot! I thought I had exhausted all of my Outlook UI options and that the fix would surely involve digging through the registry. My local IT ninjas were at a loss as well, but no surprise there.

 
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