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Windows 7 and Messenger - My Local Notes to Myself and Others...

My Local Notes to Myself and Others...

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Windows 7 and Messenger

One thing that I have found to be a nuisance in Win7 is the way it handles Messenger. In the
past messenger used to hide on the icon tray, and you could open it by double clicking on it.

Windows 7 has changed this and Messenger occupies a slot on your taskbar. Personally, I find
this uncomfortable. The solution, is to run Messenger in Vista compatibility mode. Find the
Messenger icon, right click it, and choose properties.
Choose the compatibility tab and select Windows Vista from the drop down box.

At this stage restart Messenger,and it will go back into hiding… :)

 

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Published Friday, May 08, 2009 11:21 PM by Erik Rozman

Comments

# re: Windows 7 and Messenger@ Monday, May 11, 2009 1:42 PM

This is actually the way it's going to be in Windows 7 - pushing the notification area to slowly disappear. Although it's in the task bar - you can see an overlay icon indicating your status (connected, busy, etc.).

These are the new guidelines...

by pavely

# bWindows 7/b and bMessenger/b - My Local Notes to Myself and Others… « Windows 7 Live Info@ Saturday, May 16, 2009 9:00 PM

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