iCloud Control Panel does not recognize Outlook

Does Apple read these forums or is it up to us to figure it out?

Update: I installed it on another, similar PC (Windows 7 Home, Outlook 2010) and it seems to be working great. I've tried lots of different things on mine and still can't get it to recognize Outlook.

One thing I just thought of that's different is that on the one I have problems with, I have other versions of MS Office installed (only Outlook 2010 though). I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

I wonder what else could be getting in the way. Does anyone else who is having this issue have any special customizations we can narrow it down to?

Well, after another successful install on yet another computer that isn't the one I need the iCloud control panel on, I'm going to bite the bullet... back up my computer and re-load Windows 7, Outlook and immediately install the iCloud control panel - I would bet that it will work. Not that this particular computer has a crazy amount of stuff on it, but there must be something that is causing the applet to not install correctly.

In all the other installs, the iCloud icon automatically runs and appears in the system tray when the computer starts... on the "bad" computer, the icon doesn't even stay in the system tray when I mouse over it when the control panel is running!

This is me giving up on Apple fixing the problems we're having on our Windows computers!!!

Like I stated before - and to keep with staying on topic....this is the screen I keep getting. The error reads, "Install Outlook to use Mail, Contacts, and Calendars" however you can clearly see MS Outlook 2010 in teh background!

Now, on my laptop (which also has Office 2010) the install worked fine! For some reason, I cant get my PC to install the Cloud!

HELP??????????????????

I have installed and reinstalled, but the iCloud icon in Control Panel is non-functional. It will not open. On reinstallation the box is checked saying to open iCloud control panel, but nothing happens. It says it was installed correctly. When I initially installed iCloud it worked fine, but now does not. Any suggestions. Everything seems fine, but in Outlook 2010 it sees nothing in Calendars and Contacts. A real mess.

EbonyMonk, do you happen to have any other versions of MS Office products installed?

no, but it it FIXED finally............AFTER 48 hours! Here is exactly what I did!!

1.) Removed ICLOUD...........

2.) Restarted my machine

3.) Right-click "My properties".

4.) Look in lower hand corner and select "Windows Updates"

5.) There is MS Office 2010 "IMPORTANT" update dated 10/14/11 <---- Looks like Microsoft pushed out an update

6.) Installed the update. Its about 390 MB <--- it may take a while.

7.) Restarted my machine

8.) Re-installed ICLOUD

9.) Icloud installed without a problem!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you provide more info on the update (is there a #?). Windows Update is telling me there are no updates. I did install some yesterday though, but I don't think any were for Outlook 2010. 😟

I followed the suggestion of uninstalling iCloud Control Panel. Restarting. I could not find the Office 2010 update so reinstalled Control Panel for iCloud. It finally opened and I made my seletions and my calendar and contacts are back. However the calendar and contacts between my Macbook Air, Iphone and Pc are different. The PC is missing one Calendar or parts. Info is on the Macbook and iphone. A new event I put into the iphone does not flow to the Macbook or PC. Any suggestions? At least I got my contacts and most of the calendars. back.

I have the same problem and I resorted to reinstalling my windows 7 and office and finally iCloud could detect my outlook 2010. However, about halfway through the sync, there was an unknown error and the sync failed. :(

I too have the older office 2003 installed for Word and Excel, only outlook is 2010. I wonder if it's because having mixed versions of office applications are creating the problem....

The updated is Service Pack 1 for Microsfot Office 2010 (KB2510690) 32-bit edition. On my laptop I needed to download the 64-bit edition. Both machines are running Windows 7

Regarding the "error" after you check the tasks in the cloud. I got around the error by selecting an item at time. Yes, its slow but it worked for me. First Photos, than, tasks, than calender, than mail and contacts LAST. I was able to get both machines and my iphone and ipad all syncing! FINALLY!!!

Okay, FINALLY. But I'm not out of the woods yet, it's all funky with duplicates and missing folders. But at least it's working.

I tried uninstalling older MS Office Apps, then reinstalling iCloud, that didn't work.

Next, I uninstalled Google Apps Sync along with other apps I no longer needed. So I can't pinpoint it, but I'm willing to put money on Google Apps being the problem.

I didn't even need to reinstall iCloud to make it work, however, I realized that too late. After I clicked "remove" I noticed the icons were not grayed out (I did it so quickly since it was only the 100th time I've uninstalled it in 48 hours).

Anyway, it works now (somewhat) so I guess I'm off to another thread to see about the duplicates issue. I can handle getting rid of the duplicates or replacing with a backup copy ... but the weird thing is that it didn't create the "Home" and "Work" calendars that I thought were default (that's what it created on the other PC I installed on ... which I don't happen to have access to now).

Wish me luck.

I'm having the exact same issue. Windows 7 64 bit, Outlook 2010, doesn't recognize it.

I am installing the Windows Updates and I uninstalled iCloud. I let you know if I make any progress.