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Subject: Re: Minimizing to System Tray 11/23/2006 12:09 PM PST
By: Kristan Kenney In: microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Windows Mail does not support this functionality, but I have created an
application which will provide you with a way to control Windows Mail from
the system tray as well as minimize it there.
You can download it at
http://www.msblog.org/download/WinMailTray.zip.
Have a great day,
--
Kristan Kenney
Windows Live Butterfly
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