How can I turn on taskbar autohide reliably

[Christina Louise Warne]

Hi,

I'm sure this has probably been covered before, but I've searched and
searched and so far I've not been able to find anything.

I'm trying to turn on task bar autohide. I've added what I think are the
registry keys for this, but it would be really useful if someone at
Microsoft could post the definitive answer of how to set the taskbar to
autohide automagically during the XPe build process.

The registry settings I'm using are as follows:-

Registry Key:- HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Desktop\Components\0

Position (REG_BINARY) :-
2c 00 00 00 50 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00
58 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00

RestoredStateInfo (REG_BINARY) :-
18 00 00 00 68 02 00 00
1f 99 99 99 a8 03 00 00
9e 02 00 00 01 00 00 00

CurrentState (REG_BINARY) :-
04 00 00 40

Registry Key:- HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components

GeneralFlags (REG_DWORD) :-
0x01

Registry Key:-
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

TaskbarSizeMove (REG_DWORD) :-
0x01

TaskbarGlomming (REG_DWORD) :-
0x01

These seem to work, to a point... but my application seems to think that the
task bar is there some of the time. This results in some forms being
displayed in the taskbar area and some don't. If anyone could help (an
maybe get it added to say the 'User Interface Core' component), I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Just to be clear, these issues aren't being caused by EWF. I'm not using it
at this time.

Thanks in advance.

Christina

 

[KM]

Christina,

It is not just a matetr of registry settings but rather when and how you
apply them.
I have posted the script that does the taskbar autohide.
Search for very recent thread with the subject "Hide taskbar" or in the
google archive for StuckRects2.

KM

 

[Christina Louise Warne]

Hi KM,

I found your post with the scripts. I'll give it a try.

Many thanks

Christina