Comments on: [Windows 7] Minimize Windows Live Messenger To System Tray

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:32:46 +0000

I’m glad it helped. You’re welcome! ;)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:09:44 +0000

I could just cry with joy, lol! The two taskbar slots and inability to minimize like old times was driving me crazy and I thought I was the only one! Thank you SO much for this!

By: Irina

Irina — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:17:23 +0000

Thank you so much for the trick! I loved it and it is not drving me crazy anymore:)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:01:59 +0000

Finally! What was MS thinkning by WASTING TWO spots on the Taskbar? I could have lived with one, but my space is too precious. Thanks for the fix!

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:46:31 +0000

Thanks for this, it was definitely super irritating to have this in my taskbar.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:52:25 +0000

Awesome…easy and works! Thanks!

By: Mat3

Mat3 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:29:07 +0000

Thanks for this, great trick. But WTF is wrong with Microsoft when they make utterly stupid changes like this.

By: peGGi

peGGi — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:07:46 +0000

Thank you for this tip. It’s great. Exactly what I wanted. Makes so much more sense. You’d wonder why they changed it for Windows 7. It’s so ‘in-the-way’ in the taskbar. Anyway thanks again, great to get it staying in the tray. :)

By: elliphant

elliphant — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:21:54 +0000

OHHH…. after reapplying the fix AND rebooting, it works again! Yay!!!

By: Elliphant

Elliphant — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:02:27 +0000

I used to use this trick and it worked great. Don’t know what has changed, but seems to no longer work for me (Win7 HomePrem). Not sure when it happened, but makes me very unhappy – I REALLY don’t like the new behaviour. Am going to look into some 3rd-party tools to see if I can get it back to the system tray, uh, pardon me, “notification area”….