The file outicon.exe appears to be part of the Microsoft Office 2007 software. From what users have experienced regarding the file, it displays a System Tray icon for Microsoft Office Outlook. The file’s only purpose is to display the icon which provides users with a shortcut button to launch various MS Outlook features such as emails and contact details. This file is configured to launch upon startup, but since it is nothing more than a shortcut icon, it can be removed from the startup tasks so your system can load faster every time you boot the PC. Users who have disabled the file did not experience any system or application errors. It is therefore considered safe to disable the file if the user will not be using the shortcut icon for MS Outlook. The file can be found in C:\Windows\Installers. It has a typical size of 104,960 bytes. The file has been used by backdoor Trojans to infect the system, as per users’ reports.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. outicon.exe. is used by MS Outlook Icon, If you shut down outicon.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop outicon.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is MS Outlook Icon, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed outicon.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as MS Outlook Icon, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if outicon.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that outicon.exe, belongs to, in this case MS Outlook Icon