To get it back, right click the taskbar (by the clock), click on
properties, click the notification area tab, click customize and scroll
down to "you have new email." Click on the note that says "hide when
inactive" or "hide" and select "show." New mail will show up on the
taskbar as long as windows mail is opened (even if it is minimized).
You are replying to people who stopped looking at this thread LAST
OCTOBER.
Few - if ANY - of the people viewing your post have a clue what you
are talking about because we don't see all the old posts that you
see. You should quote what you are replying to, much as you see
others have done in many of the posts you see on that forum.
That forum leeches the vast majority of its posts from Microsoft
servers and mingles them with posts from forum users - a very small
group compared to the rest of us. So most of what you see there comes
from the outside.
How can you tell "outsiders" from forum users? WE are listed as
"guest" and/or our number of posts are "n/a".
If you plan to continue following the groups listed on that forum,
or would like to find hundreds more that aren't listed, you should
give serious thought to using a news reader. It's much faster and
way more flexible than the medium you are using now.
There are several free news readers available. Windows Mail is one
of them, and is a great tool to get you started. It's also very easy
to set up.
Accessing news groups With Windows Mail by John Barnett:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3avt5q