How to hide the Main panel with the Start button?

Miroslav · May 23rd 2006

Hello,
I need to show my window on the whole screen, but there's still the Main panel, which overlaps it.
How can I hide it?
This example doesn't work:

ShowWindow(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL),SW_HIDE);

Thanks, Miroslav Janda

fs-support_HF · May 23rd 2006

Hello,
if you don't need the shell you can remove explorer.exe from [HKLM\Init].
Regards
Holger Frölich

chl · Sep 14th 2006

HWND h = ::FindWindow(_T("HHTaskBar"), _T(""));
::ShowWindow(h, SW_HIDE);
::EnableWindow(h, FALSE);

this alo prevents the user can switch to 'Task Manager".

Nase · Sep 21st 2006

Hello

I have the same problem with the Taskbar. When I remove the RegKey:
\init\ --> Lauch50 explorer.exe
the system does not go to the CheckAutoStart.exe and does not start my application.

I'm working in VB.NET. Where tho use the sample with "FindWindow" ?

Timo

fs-support_HK · Sep 26th 2006

Quote from "Nase"

I have the same problem with the Taskbar. When I remove the RegKey:
\init\ --> Lauch50 explorer.exe
the system does not go to the CheckAutoStart.exe and does not start my application.

Yes, the CheckAutoStart.exe is a feature of the explorer. But you can add your application to the init-Key in the registry. For example add two values:

Launch200 MyApplication.exe
Depend200 ...

In the second value you have to enter the numbers of the other applications you depend on as hex numbers (2x2 digits per value, LSB first). For example if you need the graphic environment (gwes.exe is launched as 30 = 0x001E) and a device (device.exe is launched as 20 = 0x0014), you have to give the line

Depend200 14 00 1E 00

Regards,

H. Keller

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