Windows Live Messenger Beta has two taskbar "boxes" open when buddy list is open and 1 open at all times to quickly change your "avalability" and there is no tray icon so you can't quickly close it without signing out and closing or just ending the process with task manager.
Quite an annoyance
Agreed - everyone reading this thread report this as an issue, please, so we can get our minimize to system tray functionality back....
That's normal, if you think about it - the one space is taken up by what is *normal* in the system tray - the second is taken up *only* when you have a chat window open *or* if you have your contact list open. Those, by default, always took up a taskbar slot.
So, the issue lies with the no system tray ability of WLM - and it's weird, cause I have plenty of other apps that have no issue minimizing to the system tray....
Yeah - I am tempted to install Vista in VBox to see if this new WLM does that in there too - but I am *betting* that it works normally in Vista....
I bet it is more simple than that - the system tray function probably does an OS check, and if XP/Vista re found, then the minimize to system tray function is enabled - since W7 is *not* either of those two WLM is blocking the System tray function.
Well, it could be that in combination with the new functions to give you ready accessibility and control directly from the taskbar that is built into W7....
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