Force New Teams to open in Chat view, not Teams

Anonymous
2023-12-27T14:32:02+00:00

Old Teams would open up on the Chat view panel whenever I started it.

New Teams always opens in the Teams view panel when i start it.

I can find no setting to pick which view panel should open when the program is started.

To be clear, I do have the program set to keep running, and when i open it from the dock, it will open in whatever the last view i had open was. The problem is on fresh starts of the program, I can't force it to always start in the Chat view.

Is there a registry change or something that can be made to force the program to always open in the Chat view (or to set any view as default for that matter)?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T20:38:46+00:00

    I'm still using the old Teams (having switched back because of the exact problem reported by the OP here), and I just checked Settings -> General. I don't see any such setting. Can you clarify what it was called, or the like, in case I'm just missing it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T12:19:49+00:00

    Old teams had a setting in the General tab that let users change how teams open up on start. From either the Chat or Teams tab. Why would the dev team remove this function from new teams is very strange. I really hope the add that function back as we use teams chat for all work communication.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-26T14:42:36+00:00

    Totally agree, also new teams crashes constantly on me

    Never with end users in mind

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-19T01:37:45+00:00

    As always, and once again, Microsoft "fixed" something that wasn't broken. They never seem to understand that users prefer to set up an application to meet their specific needs and how they manage their workflow. Then, along comes a "New and Exciting" update that messes everything up.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-07T16:34:12+00:00

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