I am developing an application that needs to use all of the screen real estate. I also need to control the user's access to to any other application on the machine. Is there an API function I can use to turn off the visibility of the task bar, including the Start Button?
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How do I hide the Windows Task Bar? 2
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Hi,
The easiest way to hide the taskbar is through START -> SETTINGS -> TASKBAR & START MENU... -> then click "AUTO HIDE" and apply. If you want to do it through VB, you will have to find out the Process ID of systray.exe and minimize it. I would have to do some more investigation into it to help you further than this. I hope this gives you a good start!
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The easiest way to hide the taskbar is through START -> SETTINGS -> TASKBAR & START MENU... -> then click "AUTO HIDE" and apply. If you want to do it through VB, you will have to find out the Process ID of systray.exe and minimize it. I would have to do some more investigation into it to help you further than this. I hope this gives you a good start!
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This small example should show how you to show/hide the taskbar.
'A simple form that hides the task bar when loading and
'shows it again when unloading
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal ncmdshow As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpwindowname As String) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
ShowWindow FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString), 0
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
ShowWindow FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString), 1
End Sub
'A simple form that hides the task bar when loading and
'shows it again when unloading
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal ncmdshow As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpwindowname As String) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
ShowWindow FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString), 0
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
ShowWindow FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString), 1
End Sub
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