Can I completley Hide the taskbar?

[justride]

If I select AutoHide Taskbar, I still see a vertical/horizontal line, approx 2 or 3 pixels wide. Any idea how to completely hide this?

 

[linney]

Have you used the options in the Taskbar Properties dialog box to hide the Taskbar, or have you unlocked the Taskbar and dragged the top of the Taskbar to the bottom of your screen to shrink the Taskbar?

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...y+Hide+the+taskbar+xp&rnum=2#27bbb76a968b3628

Are your Video drivers updated to the latest version?

 

[justride]

this screwed things up.

 

[justride]

what if i do something like "taskkill /im explorer.exe

 

[vacunita]

First of all do you want to "Hide" the taskbar as in only not see it, or do you want to remove it completely.

Killing of the explorer process will take away desktop icons, taskbar, start menu etc... leaving you with a nice blue screen, but nothing else.

Waht exaclty are you trying to acomplish?

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[linney]

What is screwed up? Killing Explorer will just leave you with a blank screen and just your command prompt (probably).
It certainly would get rid of the Taskbar, trouble is it will take everything else with it.

 

[justride]

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000095
"NoFind"=dword:00000001
"NoFolderOptions"=dword:00000001
"NoDesktopUpdate"=dword:00000001
"NoFavoritesMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoSetActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoSetFolders"=dword:00000001
"NoSetTaskbar"=dword:00000001
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000001
"NoClose"=dword:00000001
"NoNetHood"=dword:00000001
"NoRun"=dword:00000001
"NoDrives"=dword:00000000
"NoTrayContextMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoViewContextMenu"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

"DisableLockWorkstation"=dword:00000001
"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000001
"DisableChangePassword"=dword:00000001

this wiped screwed my pc up, i can no longer see my desktop, the taskbar is present, and i cannot shutdown my pc. when i try to restore my registry settings(i backed up before hand) it says some keys cannot be restored.

 

[justride]

i cannot do a start/run to enter registry and restore

 

[vacunita]

This is exactly why regitry hacks are never a good alternative.

Can you press Cntrl-Alt-Del to bring up Taskmanager, and try tu run regedit from there?

If you can't restore the modified keys, you might need to do an inplace repair with the Windows XP CD.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[bcastner]

1. Cannot do Start/Run: Create a shortcut on the Desktop (right-click, New, Shortcut. The target will be cmd.exe

Now click your new shortcut.

2. Copy/paste the below and save in a file called fix.reg You can double click the new file to execute.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000095
"NoFind"=dword:00000000
"NoFolderOptions"=dword:00000000
"NoDesktopUpdate"=dword:00000000
"NoFavoritesMenu"=dword:00000000
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=dword:00000000
"NoSetActiveDesktop"=dword:00000000
"NoDesktop"=dword:00000000
"NoSetFolders"=dword:00000000
"NoSetTaskbar"=dword:00000000
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
"NoClose"=dword:00000000
"NoNetHood"=dword:00000000
"NoRun"=dword:00000000
"NoDrives"=dword:00000000
"NoTrayContextMenu"=dword:00000000
"NoViewContextMenu"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

"DisableLockWorkstation"=dword:00000000
"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000
"DisableChangePassword"=dword:00000000

 

[linney]

Is Safe Mode available? System Restore might work from there or from a Command Prompt using c:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

 

[justride]

safe mode didnt boot right. I formatted/reinstalled. was not a big deal because it was a new pc, one i am testing with. I am still wondering how to remove this taskbar from a batch file. any ideas?

 

[ncotton]

why do you want to remove the task bar? There may be another way around it. Such as Group Policy desktop lock downs if its going to be a public terminal.

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant