{"id":77,"date":"2012-08-07T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/how-to-remove-or-hide-msn-live-messenger-from-the-taskbar-and-minimize-it-to-the-system-tray\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:59:00","slug":"how-to-remove-or-hide-msn-live-messenger-from-the-taskbar-and-minimize-it-to-the-system-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/how-to-remove-or-hide-msn-live-messenger-from-the-taskbar-and-minimize-it-to-the-system-tray.html","title":{"rendered":"How to remove or hide msn Live Messenger from the taskbar and minimize it to the system tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying thing in Windows 7 is the inability to remove msn from the taskbar and minimize it to the System Tray.<br \/>\nHowever there is an easy way around it, with several simple steps.<\/p>\n<p>1- Exit Live Messenger entirely.<br \/>\n2- Right click your Live Messenger Shortcut and choose Properties.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/msnproperties.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Live Messenger Properties\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/msnproperties.png\" alt=\"Live Messenger Properties\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>3- Go to <b>Compatibility<\/b> Tab.<br \/>\n4- Under Compatibility Mode, check: <b>Run this program in compatibility mode for:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>5-<\/b> Select from the drop down list: <b>Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/liveMessengercompatibilitymode.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Live Messenger Compatibility Mode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/liveMessengercompatibilitymode.png\" alt=\"Live Messenger Compatibility Mode\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>6- Click Apply or OK<br \/>\n7- Open your Live Messenger and when you click on the close button, it will be minimize to the <b>system tray<\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/systemtraylivemessenger.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Live Messenger System Tray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/systemtraylivemessenger.png\" alt=\"Live Messenger System Tray\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Any questions, comments or suggestions, please post below!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying thing in Windows 7 is the inability to remove msn from the taskbar and minimize it to the System Tray. However there is an easy way around it, with several simple steps. 1- Exit Live Messenger entirely. 2- Right click your Live Messenger Shortcut and choose Properties. 3- Go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,104,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compatibility","category-live-messenger","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}