Disabling the Windows taskbar!?

[Moppsie]

I am currently writing an app which requires that the operator does not have access to the windows taskbar or graphical operating system.

Could anyone please tell me how to disable the taskbar, or hide it so that the user cannot access it's facilities?

Thanks a lot

[Aaron Young]

Try this:

Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long
Private Const SW_HIDE = 0
Private Const SW_SHOW = 5

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Static bHidden As Boolean
    Dim lHwnd As Long
    bHidden = Not bHidden
    lHwnd = FindWindowEx(0&, 0&, "Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
    Call ShowWindow(lHwnd, IIf(bHidden, SW_HIDE, SW_SHOW))
End Sub

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