The new work laptop came with Windows 11 installed and the Edge browser as the default. While I don’t especially mind the browser being the default, there ewas one thing which I found a little annoying; if you opened an attachment from an email, an Outlook pane opened on the right side of the browser:
As well as taking up some screen real estate, it kept prompting me to log in. I did a little exploring and found that it could be disabled fairly easily, by clicking the vertical ellipsis button and selecting Notification and App settings:
On the page which settings page which opens, click the toggle for the Automatically open Outlook email context in the side pane option:
Close the settings page and you won’t see the Outlook pane again, unless you repeat the above steps and switch on the Outlook pane again.
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