Clicking on email notification pop-up won't open the email message

Anonymous
2020-06-15T16:17:34+00:00

When I receive pop-up email notifications through Outlook, I used to be able to just click on the pop-up and it would open the email message. When I click on the notification now, nothing happens except that the notification goes away. In addition, subsequent emails that come in populate a notification but the notification is the same one that I previously received (for example, if the first email I received upon opening Outlook was from Sender A, I will get a notification from Sender A and clicking on that does not open the email. When I get an email from Sender B, I get another notification but it is the same notification as I received from Sender A; again, clicking on it does nothing except to dismiss the notification). If I instead click "dismiss" on the notification, then the new sender's information on the subsequent notification will be accurate. 

Can this be fixed? How can I again get the email message to appear when I click on the email notification?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-24T21:09:55+00:00

    Forward this whole thread to IT and they can fix it.  The fix is actually pretty easy (I know it looks like greek to any non-tech person).

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-24T21:03:37+00:00

    This has been driving me crazy. Is there a quicker fix for this yet. I'll forward this whole message to IT. I'm sure I can't do any of this myself.

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-20T18:23:24+00:00

    That did it for me. Thank you very much for posting this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-20T17:12:53+00:00

    It's amazing that Microsoft wouldn't fix this but that another user in this forum had to figure it out on their own and share for all of us.  At what point do we call Microsoft a failure on supporting their products?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-20T14:30:16+00:00

    After messing around with every solution in this page, I finally got mine to act correctly.

    I used zx3junglist answer in a different way.  I found a regedit entry for:

    Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppUserModelId\Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15

    But I am using Outlook 2016 (should be OUTLOOK.EXE.16, not 15)

    I renamed Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppUserModelId\Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15

    to 

    Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppUserModelId\Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.16

    and popups work.  When I click the popup, I get the email!  

    I hope this helps some!

    This was it. I changed the registry key from .15 to .16 and now the email message opens when clicking the toast. Thanks!

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