How to Keep Microsoft Teams Running in the Taskbar
You can keep Microsoft Teams running in your Windows taskbar by adjusting its settings to prevent it from closing completely when you click the ‘X’ button.
Microsoft Teams is a widely used application for team communication, offering chat, video conferencing, and file collaboration features. By default, clicking the close button minimizes Teams to the system tray, but you can configure it to remain active in the taskbar.
This setting ensures you don’t miss important notifications. To achieve this, you need to access Teams’ general settings within the application.
Click the three dots next to your profile picture, select Settings, then General. Check the box for “On close, keep the application running and minimize it to the taskbar” in the System section. This keeps Teams active in the taskbar when you close the window.
How to make Teams start minimized?
If you check in settings you have the option "Open application in background", that will start Teams but it will only run in the background and not as open window when the computer starts. Test that setting. There is also a uservoice requesting this setting to be configured globaly.
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