Hide TaskBar in C through Win32

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Hi,
I was successful in creating a full screen window but really unable to hide taskbar.
It vanishes after couple of seconds after the full screen window is initiated.

Can you please let me know how to even hide the task bar ?

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Posted 15-Aug-12 3:47am

AshakiranBhatter

Updated 20-Oct-20 9:46am

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Michael Haephrati · Answer 1 · 2020-10-20T09:46:00

I was just looking for a way of hiding the Task Bar and came across this question.
After doing some research and running some tests, I am going to show how to hide the Task Bar, regardless of using Full screen mode or not.

static HWND hShellWnd = ::FindWindow(_T("Shell_TrayWnd"), NULL);
ShowWindow(hShellWnd, SW_HIDE);

Joan M · Answer 2 · 2012-08-15T05:34:00

Look here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2382464/win32-full-screen-and-hiding-taskbar[^]

You can also take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724947(v=vs.85).aspx#Desktop[^]

Were you can see the desktop parameters which cover the space occupied by the taskbar.

Probably there will be better methods out there...

Good luck!

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