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app103:
I like to keep my taskbar hidden...and it is quite large.

When I want to access it, I just move the cursor to the right side of my screen and it pops out.

The problem is flashing taskbar buttons also make it pop out. And it won't go back till I click that button of the program that causes it and make it the active window. I find this one of the most annoying 'features' with XP. I didn't have this problem with 9x.

Messenger clients are the most serious offenders. Someone sends you a message and you get both an audio cue and a flashing taskbar button. I have to stop whatever I am doing, because the taskbar is sticking out halfway across my screen covering everything, and click the button...then 2 seconds later I get another message and this repeats. People that type a series of short 2 word messages make me want to rip my hair out.

I located a plugin for Messenger Plus that took care of the problem in MSN... but GTalk, Yahoo, and AIM are still a problem, as well as any other messenger client I may try in the future.

There is no tweaking program that I have found that can totally disable the flashing. At best you can either make it flash a specified number of times or keep flashing till you click it. The minimum flashing count is 1, setting it to 0 just makes it flash till you click it. Setting it at 1 still makes me have to click the button to get the taskbar to go away.

I was wondering if someone could code something that would intercept the messages that trigger the button flashing for all buttons of all programs and tosses them out, in order to effectively disable the flashing so my taskbar will stop flying out when I don't want to see it.

jgpaiva:
Oh... You've got a giant problem there :S
I can understand what you mean.
I've never seen a program that does what you're requiring, though.
As you mentioned, there are tons of ways for removing the blinking in msnmessenger, but for the other programs, i have no idea.

Still, if you use that much protocols, and have problems with the taskbar blinking, you might want to give a go to miranda, since it supports all protocols (at least the most common ones), and you can configure it to not blink. (Actually, i don't even know how to configure it to do it :P)
I know this is not really a solution, but might help you be aware to some other ways of handling it.

Josh:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/69617ed16cccedff/f802b171f6599a7e%23f802b171f6599a7e

jgpaiva:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/69617ed16cccedff/f802b171f6599a7e%23f802b171f6599a7e
-Josh (May 29, 2006, 04:58 PM)
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Fantastic find, josh!
I have that program, and didn't even know it could do that..LoL

app103:
The problem is the taskbar still flies out across my screen no matter what settings I use with that...and TweakUI was the tweaking program I tried first.

And as far as using an all-in-one client to handle all the protocols, the reason why I don't is because of the features some of the clients I use, have...most of the all-in-one clients don't support the extras, like XM Radio or desktop buttons for my favorite people (I can't live without this especially)...and other little perks.

And even if I used an all-in-one, I'd still have the problem. The only client I don't have the problem with is MSN because the plugin I installed took care of it for that client only.

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