Auto Hide TaskBar (WXP-Pro)

[aturner]

Hi Folks, How can I enable "Auto Hide" on the TaskBar via a registry tweak in logon script? We have used Group Policies extensivley but some users like the AutoHide feature of Tasbar and I cannot see a way via policies and don't want to visit every single machine to do manually.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Norm

[POBrien]

Unfortunately it can't be done. The checkbox auto hide feature in the taskbar properties points to code in explorer.exe. Other system .dll files check the status of that checkbox to determine the behavior of the taskbar.

POBrien

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[Kevin.Brewer]

In Jacob Vandborg's post http://www.winguides.com/forums/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=brdNewTweaks&Number=84416&page=0
he correctly describes the registry settings to enable or disable the Taskbar property "Always on top".

I've followed his prescription (including using down.exe rather than other reboot methods) and the Taskbar's "Always on top" property is indeed disabled.

Jacob correctly says, in order to disable this property, to change the value after the four FF's from 02 to 00.

By experimentation, I've learned that the right hand nibble of the 02 contains two other Taskbar and Start menu properties as shown below:

0010
| | | |
| | | +----- Auto hide (0 = disable, 1 = enable)
| | +------- Always on top (0 = disable, 1 = enable)
| +--------- Unknown
+----------- Show clock (0 = enable, 1 = disable)


Patrick, even with the fact that the "Auto hide"'s checkbox state is stored in this registry bit makes no difference? If it makes no difference, then I would have to assume that a lot more is going on behind the scenes in explorer.exe and the system .dll's.


Sincerely,

Kevin J. Brewer

[Patrick O'Brien]

Hello Kevin.Brewer,

Welcome to the WinGuides Forums!

That's great news. Thank you for setting the record straight.


Regards,

Patrick O'Brien
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