Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Challenge-Windows 7’

How-to: Minimize Messenger to the system notification area in Windows 7

5 comments May 14th, 2009

If you are running Messenger quite frequently, perhaps even permanently, the rather big Messenger icon in the “normal” taskbar might get into your way rather quickly. How would it be to force Messenger to act like in previous versions of Windows—that is, to “minimize to tray”? Here is how you can.

OneCare and Windows 7

Comments Off March 30th, 2009

Windows 7 will not support the security solution Windows Live OneCare. The reason for this is the End of Life for OneCare, which will get replaced by a free alternative.

Messenger Start Menu Tasks in Windows 7

1 comment December 29th, 2008

Today I got the chance to install the Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC (14.0.8050.1202) on Windows 7 (6.1.7000 / CES build), and I want to highlight 2 things I have noticed when using it there. Start Menu Tasks The first thing I noticed was that Messenger introduced a popup menu with an arrow to the [...]