Minimising Pianoteq to the Notification Area

I use Pianoteq on a general purpose Windows desktop PC also used for email and other daily admin.

In the past I have minimised Pianoteq to the notification area just to keep it out of the way of all my other running applications. There are a number of third party apps (Tray It, Send to Tray, RBTray) that will do this.

If minimised directly from the desktop, Pianoteq leaves a shadow on the wallpaper. With XP I was able to minimise Pianoteq to the notification area from the taskbar to avoid this. With Windows 7, Jumplists have superceded the old right click context menu, and I can no longer send Pianoteq to the notification area from the taskbar.

I realise that all this is pretty minor stuff, but nevertheless..

i) What is the technical reason for Pianoteq behaving differently from other Windows apps when minimised like this (by leaving a shadow, I mean)? Anyone know?

ii) I would have thought that others would also like to minimise Pianoteq out of the way to the notification area - could this be considered a feature request if others support this?

Apologies if I've missed something obvious - do let me know if so!