Window disable Taskbar

[Filippo Bettinaglio]

Hi,

I have developed an application for automation,
on the PC there is Window 2000.
I have setup an automatic login and my program runs
automatically.

The only thing that I want to do is lock/disable/hide
the task bar.
The user must be not able to user to do anything except
than use my program.

I went through the window policy but I have not found
anything.

How Can I do this?

THANKS
FILIPPO

 

[Matthew Mucker [MSFT]]

You can't do this programmatically, to the best of my knowledge. This is
deliberate on the part of the OS authors. The user, not the programmer,
should have control over the user's experience/interface. (I *hate* apps
that force me to change my settings! Bad! Evil! Do not do this!)

If, however, the user is to do nothing but use your program, then make your
program the shell instead of using explorer.

Change hklm\software\microsoft\windows
nt\currentversion\winlogon\shell=yourapp.exe

-Matt

 

[Bill Peele [MS]]

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From: "Filippo Bettinaglio" <[email protected]>
Subject: Window disable Taskbar
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:33:16 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general

Hi,

I have developed an application for automation,
on the PC there is Window 2000.
I have setup an automatic login and my program runs
automatically.

The only thing that I want to do is lock/disable/hide
the task bar.
The user must be not able to user to do anything except
than use my program.

I went through the window policy but I have not found
anything.

How Can I do this?

THANKS
FILIPPO

--

Filippo,

If you only want the users to be able to access your program you need to make it the shell instead of Explorer.exe. You
can change the shell by modifying the Shell value in the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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