Suggestion - The Messenger Pop-up

I'm sure many of us often work across two applications or instances of the
same application, and needs to constantly switch between windows by pressing
Alt-Tab once. This productive rhythm is sometimes interrupted when a
Messenger window pops up, telling you that a friend signed in, a new email
received, or whatever, and your Alt-Tab goes to that small pop-up, and most
of the time you don't realize it and frantically press Alt-Tab over and over
again.

Personally I become irritated when this happens, and while I like to keep
this function enabled, I don't see why this window can't be kept out of the
Alt-Tab cycle. It would be a neat feature to add to the next version.

Greetings Carl,

Yeah I know what you mean -- the way it's handled in Vista seems to be less distracting
though (and actually a bit neat).

I'm not sure if there's a specific reasoning why toasts are shown there, the Office ones also
show up there as well.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Carl" <> wrote in message
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> I'm sure many of us often work across two applications or instances of the
> same application, and needs to constantly switch between windows by pressing
> Alt-Tab once. This productive rhythm is sometimes interrupted when a
> Messenger window pops up, telling you that a friend signed in, a new email
> received, or whatever, and your Alt-Tab goes to that small pop-up, and most
> of the time you don't realize it and frantically press Alt-Tab over and over
> again.
>
> Personally I become irritated when this happens, and while I like to keep
> this function enabled, I don't see why this window can't be kept out of the
> Alt-Tab cycle. It would be a neat feature to add to the next version.

Thank you Jonathan.

Although I don't quite understand what are the toasts that you are referring
to.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Carl,
>
> Yeah I know what you mean -- the way it's handled in Vista seems to be less distracting
> though (and actually a bit neat).
>
> I'm not sure if there's a specific reasoning why toasts are shown there, the Office ones also
> show up there as well.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "Carl" <> wrote in message
> news:E960A7C0-3E07-4A8B-A31D-...
> > I'm sure many of us often work across two applications or instances of the
> > same application, and needs to constantly switch between windows by pressing
> > Alt-Tab once. This productive rhythm is sometimes interrupted when a
> > Messenger window pops up, telling you that a friend signed in, a new email
> > received, or whatever, and your Alt-Tab goes to that small pop-up, and most
> > of the time you don't realize it and frantically press Alt-Tab over and over
> > again.
> >
> > Personally I become irritated when this happens, and while I like to keep
> > this function enabled, I don't see why this window can't be kept out of the
> > Alt-Tab cycle. It would be a neat feature to add to the next version.
>
>

Hi Carl,

Toasts are the official term for the "pop-ups" or "alerts". In the case of Office, I'm
referring to the one that occurs when you get an e-mail in Outlook.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Carl" <> wrote in message
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> Thank you Jonathan.
>
> Although I don't quite understand what are the toasts that you are referring
> to.
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings Carl,
>>
>> Yeah I know what you mean -- the way it's handled in Vista seems to be less distracting
>> though (and actually a bit neat).
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's a specific reasoning why toasts are shown there, the Office ones
>> also
>> show up there as well.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>>
>> "Carl" <> wrote in message
>> news:E960A7C0-3E07-4A8B-A31D-...
>> > I'm sure many of us often work across two applications or instances of the
>> > same application, and needs to constantly switch between windows by pressing
>> > Alt-Tab once. This productive rhythm is sometimes interrupted when a
>> > Messenger window pops up, telling you that a friend signed in, a new email
>> > received, or whatever, and your Alt-Tab goes to that small pop-up, and most
>> > of the time you don't realize it and frantically press Alt-Tab over and over
>> > again.
>> >
>> > Personally I become irritated when this happens, and while I like to keep
>> > this function enabled, I don't see why this window can't be kept out of the
>> > Alt-Tab cycle. It would be a neat feature to add to the next version.
>>
>>