New computer game

Can anyone find a way, from within the WLM window itself, of terminating
it. No cheating, and using the system tray icon, now!

I haven't lost the system tray icon, yet, but I've got into a state
where the entire start bar stopped responding.

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

Hey Steve,

I don't think there's a way without third party software. However, the problem you're having
with the taskbar notification area icons was solved over a decade ago back in the IE4 days.
If you kill the explorer.exe process and then restart it from within Task Manager
(Ctrl-Shift-Esc), all the notification area icons (well those written correctly) will just
come back.

Also you could just kill off the msnmsgr.exe process too, but be sure to close all those
conversation windows first (so that your message history gets saved).

The "design" of Messenger assumes that you won't be shutting it down really and the idea is
you'd just sign out if you don't wish to be connected.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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"Swifty" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Can anyone find a way, from within the WLM window itself, of terminating it. No cheating,
> and using the system tray icon, now!
>
> I haven't lost the system tray icon, yet, but I've got into a state where the entire start
> bar stopped responding.
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk

Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
> If you kill the explorer.exe process and then restart it from within Task Manager
> (Ctrl-Shift-Esc), all the notification area icons (well those written correctly) will just
> come back.

I use this on occasions, but I always have the feeling that something
isn't quite right afterwards (I restart the apps that don't re-create
their system tray icon). I usually end up logging off and back on.

My question was more curiosity, to see if there was an "Exit" hidden
somewhere.

The reason that I close WLM is that I normally run with just Pidgin, in
place of five separate messenger programs, and start the bespoke
versions only when I need one of the advanced functions (such as video).
I'm parsimonious with my memory. (Also the memory inside my head, as I
get older, but that's off topic)

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk