Tag: task bar
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Banish Skype to the notification area
If you’ve got the latest version of Skype, you may have noticed that it doesn’t disappear from your task bar when you close the program. This is extremely annoying to me. I understand that the program is still running, but why can’t it do that in the notification area (which is the designated area for…
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Banish Live Messenger back to the Notification Area
Yes I still use Windows Messenger…well now known as “Windows Live Messenger” and I’m not afraid to admit it. There are several benefits I find to using a tangible instant messaging program over browser based apps like Gtalk, Facebook IM, etc. They accurately indicate whether you are busy/away/available, they work with keyboard shortcuts and you…
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Select from three Windows7 power plans
A while ago I voiced my frustration about Microsoft’s choice to display only two of the three standard power plan choices when clicking the battery icon in the notification area. In that initial article I suggested a shareware program called Power Plan Assistant which I actually uninstalled a week later due to some annoying shareware…