System tray icon

Hi,
Does anyone know if they system tray icon (the green man - when online) has
the ability to change when I have email messages?
It would be nice if there was an update or selection that changed the icon
when mail was in my inbox
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Cheers,
TO.NY

There is no change in icon, but that is an excellent suggestion

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to.ny wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know if they system tray icon (the green man - when online) has
> the ability to change when I have email messages?
> It would be nice if there was an update or selection that changed the icon
> when mail was in my inbox

You can download "Live Mail Desktop". It works with WLM and changes it's
tray icon if you have new messages.

"to.ny" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Does anyone know if they system tray icon (the green man - when online)
> has
> the ability to change when I have email messages?
> It would be nice if there was an update or selection that changed the icon
> when mail was in my inbox
> --
> Cheers,
> TO.NY

This was added as a suggestion circa 2003 actually.

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""Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]"" <> wrote in message
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> There is no change in icon, but that is an excellent suggestion
>
> Scøtt
> Windows Live Messenger MVP
> Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/
> Personal Blog - http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/
> Developer Blog - http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/
>
> to.ny wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know if they system tray icon (the green man - when online) has the ability to
>> change when I have email messages?
>> It would be nice if there was an update or selection that changed the icon when mail was
>> in my inbox

Before my time on the betas

Scøtt
Windows Live Messenger MVP
Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/
Personal Blog - http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/
Developer Blog - http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/

Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
> This was added as a suggestion circa 2003 actually.
>

I do see it is hard to change the signed in icon when a message is received,
because it is loaded when windows starts.

I already get a sound and small pop-ups when mail is received, could this
not be extended to changing the icon in the quick launch tool bar which is
accessible after Window is loaded?


""Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]"" <> wrote in
message news:OeVeLr$...
> Before my time on the betas
>
> Scøtt
> Windows Live Messenger MVP
> Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/
> Personal Blog - http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/
> Developer Blog - http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/
>
> Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
>> This was added as a suggestion circa 2003 actually.
>>

A good tip. I have given Live Mail Desktop a try and found it very
interesting. In many ways it seems like a neater version of Outlook 2007,
particularly in its capability to collect mail from news groups in Outlook
Express. However and while it works fine with my POP accounts and Hotmail
it will not collect mail from my MSN account, whereas Outlook can do this
without problems.
So as it is Beta software will just wait awhile and then try it again.

Thank you for your help

"Matti-Koopa" <> wrote in message
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> You can download "Live Mail Desktop". It works with WLM and changes it's
> tray icon if you have new messages.
>
> "to.ny" <> wrote in message
> news:01A09BE5-7C81-4DD9-891C-...
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know if they system tray icon (the green man - when online)
>> has
>> the ability to change when I have email messages?
>> It would be nice if there was an update or selection that changed the
>> icon
>> when mail was in my inbox
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> TO.NY
>