microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize

If (1) TBird is your default Mail Client in Set Program Access and Defaults,
and (2) Outlook Express has been Removed via Add/Remove Windows Components,
and (3) no other Mail Client is installed, and (4) the email notification
icon appears in Notification Area only when new mail downloads into TBird,
TBird is invoking the appearance of the icon, no matter what anyone else
told you.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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Poster Matt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Windows displays an unread email notification 'envelope' icon on my
> taskbar - that is as opposed to Thunderbird's new email notification
> message which I've turned off. The Thunderbird forum informed me the
> envelope icon is a Windows icon which can be turned off by specifying
> 'always hide pm@nsfm.com has xx new messages'. However I don't like
> hiding 'inactive' icons - I like to see what's in my memory and find the
> 'show all' button fiddly.
>
> Furthermore... Tweak UI has a 'Show taskbar notification icons' setting
> but if I switch that off won't I then miss important notifications like
> my Firewall informing me of an update and such like?
>
> Perhaps there's a tweak somewhere (in the registry perhaps) that will
> allow me to permanently stop the unread email notification 'envelope'
> icon from appearing. I get a lot of email, and don't have the time to
> look at it all as it arrives, so the envelope icon is on my taskbar most
> of the time - I don't like it and I don't need to be told that I have
> unread email since I pretty much always have some unread email !!
>
> Thanks all.