Stop blinking! I will read your IM when I'm good and ready!

[invicticide]

Taskbar buttons blinking to get my attention drives me INSANE.

I installed TweakUI a long time ago, which has a wonderful setting to make taskbar buttons blink only ONCE, and then stay solid orange until I switch to that app. This is so awesome.

However, for some reason Windows Live Messenger completely ignores that setting. When someone IMs me, that window's taskbar button will flash like 30 times. It's just about the most annoying thing ever when I'm trying to do some work (which is always).

Has anyone got any suggestions for how to fix this behavior, or why it occurs? Is WLM bypassing the OS/TweakUI settings and doing its own blinking and I'm just going to have to deal with it? That would be sad. :(

For the record, this comp is on XP (though if you're familiar with TweakUI you probably already assumed that).

[jerri blank]

You could skip WLM and use a third-party app, like Trillian.

[anaqer]

Or miranda.

/runs

[jeansberg]

Or Pidgin.

[Equis]

Or Adium

[Moggraider]

Or Pidgin.

Pidgin is best. All other suggestions are a joke. I have tried them all, and all fall before Pidgin.

[mystery]

Pidgin is best. All other suggestions are a joke. I have tried them all, and all fall before Pidgin.

And Pidgin's default setting is to turn the taskbar button Orange, and not blink at you in the first place.

[Cosmic Hippo]

+1 for Pidgin!

[nKoan]

Its actually for that reason that I usually turn off IM while I'm trying to work.

[stusser]

Taskbar buttons blinking to get my attention drives me INSANE.
Relax, Francis.

[russellmz00]

Relax, Francis.

"lighten up", stusser.