MSN displays two icons in the taskbar

Hello and sorry if my English is not so good. Upgrading to windows 7 yesterday and had just this one problem for now. When I connect to my msn he opens two windows in the taskbar. We have the msn as before and the other just my msn pic. As a result, I can't minimize it by clicking on the task bar, when I click on the window already open. And of course I constantly get confused which icon to click to view my msn. How can I make the second window disappear?

Gr_thalia,

To get Windows Live Messenger to run as it did in previous versions of Windows, try to open in Compatibility Mode:
  1. Make sure that Windows Live Messenger is completely closed
  2. Go to the Windows Live Messenger executable by clicking Start > computer > Local disk (c) > Program Files > Windows Live > Messenger
  3. Find msnmsgr, right-click and choose Properties
  4. Click on the compatibility tab
  5. In Compatibility Mode, check the run this program in compatibility mode for: , then select Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) from the drop-down
  6. Click OK to close the Properties window
Hope that helps!

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