When I posted about Google Talk Not displaying the Current Music Track as Status message in this blog long back, I saw people asking about the trick to make it show in Windows Vista. I suggested them a few trick but none of them worked to my knowledge. It is until today when I decided to set my status in Google Talk as the music playing in media Player (Cause I wanted to impress someone)  I got to know that the normal way described for Windows XP needs to be tuned up for Vista. So here is how to show the current music track playing in WMP 11 as your status message in Google Talk in Vista.Vista uses a security measure called User Account Control, ( I will discuss about it later, for the time being just be familiar with the term) and this UAC though allow installing many applications without any prompt when you are logged in as an user with admin rights, it has some glitches like all the functionality of the program can not be exploited. So here lies the trick of not being able to see the music track as status message. Here are the steps we need to follow:

1. If you have Google talk already installed, un-install it from Add/remove programs.

2. Right click on the Google Talk installation file and select Run as Administrator. This will give you higher power (called elevation) to install Google Talk so that you will see all functionality.

3. Proceed with the installation.

4. Log-in to Google Talk and keep it running.

5. Now open Media Player 11, (Please do not open Media Player 11 before logging in to Google Talk) Right click near Now Playing tab on the menu bar and seelct View.

6. Click on Plug-ins and then Options. Click on backgrounds and if the Google Talk music plug-in is not checked please check it. If it is checked you need not worry. All is set up as expected.

7. Click on Apply and Ok.

8. Go to Google talk and set status message as Show current music track. Yup you are done. It si so simple.

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