Are you using Windows Live Mail as your primary e-mail program and thus running it all the time? I bet that its taskbar button will get in your way sometimes. When I played around with Live Mail’s options, I found a way to minimize Windows Live Mail to my system notification area, commonly known as “tray”. Sounds interesting? Here we go.
- Start Windows Live Mail.
- Right-click on its icon in the notification area.
- In the opening context menu, check the item Hide window when minimized.
- Now minimize Live Mail’s Inbox window—done!
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# 21 Sep 2009 Monday 21:57
This sounds like it should be easy, but I dont get the option ? am I missing something ?
Only options in my context menu is: Contacts, Compose an email, create an event, open windows live mail, and exit.
# 15 Oct 2009 Thursday 00:43
As the above poster mentioned, right clicking does not give you the options they mention above. What almost every user would want to know is to mimimize this program in the task bar tray and also get notifications of new emails? This seems like it should be very straight forward, but Microsoft is Microsoft, so it doesn’t work the way you would expect.
# 15 Oct 2009 Thursday 10:17
Hello Craig and Dave,
I will have a look into this why this happens. Would you mind telling me what Windows version you are using?
# 16 Oct 2009 Friday 11:56
I don’t get that option either, Im running Windows 7 – 64 bit
All that’s in the context menu is
- Contacts
- Compose an Email
- Create an Event
- Open Windows Live Mail
- Exit
(Version 2009, Build 14.0.8089.0726)
# 23 Oct 2009 Friday 19:42
You have to run Live Mail in Vista compatibility mode for this feature to work. Right click on wimail.exe and set the Compatibility to Vista .
# 28 Oct 2009 Wednesday 01:06
I have it in Vista compatibility mode and there is still NO option to minimize to tray… or anywhere.
# 15 Nov 2009 Sunday 13:37
Right-clicking on C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail.exe, choosing compatibility mode for Vista SP2 works – after restarting it, the right click on tray icon shows the missed function
Thx so far ;-)
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