Window 7 Beta and Windows Live Messenger

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Something that had been annoying my while I’ve been on Win7 was that messenger had an abnormal docking behavior.  You can see that it shows both my profile pic and the WLM window.

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Anyway I did some digging and found out the way to solve this is run WLM in XP compatibility mode.  To do this;

  • Right click the Messenger icon on your start tab and hit properties

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  • Set the compatibility mode to be WinXP

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  • Hit OK and restart WLM – You’ll get an admin pop-up and no more annoying double Window.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The new behaviour does take a bit of getting used to, but actually I find it kind of useful. I've pinned WLM to my task bar so it's there all the time. The reason being, I can close the WLM main window when not using it, but I still have access to features on the Jump List (by right-clicking the taskbar icon) to directly change or view my status or send a message. This replaces the little "blue pawn" icon that used to appear in the notification area. I really like what Microsoft has done with the task bar in Windows 7. It is a great improvement. The only thing I miss is the little blinking network status icon.

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2009
    Tisk tisk, not following my blog Nick? http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2009/05/how-to-get-live-messenger-back-in.html