How can I disable the Journal in Outlook?

John Savill

July 26, 2000

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A. The Journal function in Outlook can be used to track documentchanges and openings, mail actions, meetings and task management however it cantake up a large amount of space if not archived regularly.

If you don't want the features of the Journal it can be disabled as follows:

  1. Start Outlook

  2. Select Options from the Tools menu

  3. Select the Preferences tab and click 'Journal Options'

  4. Unselect all boxes and click OK
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  5. Click OK to the main dialog

No records will be written to the journal now.

If you want to delete all current Journal information select the Journalbranch, right click on each entry type, for example Microsoft Word, and selectDelete from the context menu.

This is also possible by directly editing the registry:

  1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)

  2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice9.0OutlookOptionsJournal

  3. Double click EnableJournal and change from 1 to 0

  4. Click OK

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