Remove MSN Messenger icon from taskbar?

you are the man napilopez

That helped me as well, why doesnt Microsoft change this?

skizo said:

Is there a way to remove the MSN Messenger icon from the taskbar while remaining logged in to Messenger?

I want the program to remain open, but I don't need it sitting in the taskbar all the time. In previous versions of Windows it would minimize to the notification area.

Just right click on the ion and click delete. Hope this helps!

This worked, however, if you notice, you will see that when in Compatibilty mode (regardless of what OS you use, other than windows 7), that the memory usage climbs and climbs and climbs... Just sit there and watch it climb past 2gb. Not sure what bit of bad coding there is for MSN messenger in compatibility mode, but it uses a ton of memory over time.

If put back off compatibility mode, the memory usage stablizes.

I have tried this work-around on three systems and later noticed that the memory usage was getting higher usage... I tracked it down to the compatiblity mode work-around.

All three systems running windows 7, two Windows 7 64bit and 1 with Windows 7 32bit.

If anyone has another work-around, I am all eyes.

Thank
It working perfectly.

Do you knew anything like this for WMP?

OMG - THANK YOU! This was also bugging the hell out of me, so major props for sharing this undoubtedly little known tweak. Awesome!

How do you Know if you have 32 or 64 bit?