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Remove the Live Mail tray icon in Windows 7 and offer the tray menu icons as jumplist from taskbar

Submitted by alsiladka on March 18, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy

When using Windows Live Mail on Windows 7, there is an always existing icon in the taskbar as well as an icon in the tray which is hidden according to the new tray icon settings. And annoyingly, there are no jumplist options from the taskbar icon, the new mail / contact options are only available from the tray icon.

Unlike Vista, you can no longer minimize Live mail to the tray, so we are stuck with 2 icons all the time.

The tray icon needs to go and the tray menu options should be ported to the Taskbar icon jumplist.

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Discussion (3 comments)

technogran wrote on March 18, 2009, 4:59pm

I agree with this suggestion. We need Windows Live Mail to also have a jumplist.

Mr.P wrote on June 10, 2009, 10:47am

Go to the Windows Live Mail executable and get the property-window. Then select to run it in compatibility-mode for Vista SP2 or XP or whatever and... there you go.

broccauley wrote on November 5, 2009, 5:35pm

yes there should be an option to disable the notification area / tray icon. under 7 the tray icon shouldn't be enabled by default.

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