How to Get Rid of Minimized Live Messenger from Windows 7 Taskbar

One thing we love about Windows 7 is the taskbar’s application pinning feature. It allows users to pin their frequent access applications directly on top. However recently, I overcome one annoying thing is some applications such as Microsoft Windows Messenger Live and latest Skype beta found their ways to stay on the taskbar even you have minimized it.

Here is a simple tip how not to let those applications invade your taskbar.

Go to msnmsgr.exe, it is located at C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger.

In the Compatibility tab, choose "Windows Vista". So in this case, the application will run in a Vista simulation environment and couldn’t pin itself to your taskbar anymore.

The reason to choose “Windows Vista” is because Vista UI and working environment is the nearest to Windows 7. You also can choose XP, but just in some cases the Aero UI might not work properly.

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