Hide Windows 7 Taskbar Permanently

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Hide Windows 7 Taskbar Permanently

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Post by theniteowl » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:22 am

I'm banging my head on this one and need some help. I want the ability to hide the taskbar permanently in Windows 7. I already use auto-hide option, however the problem is upon boot-up, or transititions to applications like GameEx the taskbar is still visible and will pop-up. Is there an application or some kind of registry setting I can use to make it not pop-up and keep permantely hidden until I press Ctrl-Esc or something? Appreciate any insight on this.

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Post by cw-kid » Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:01 am

There may be a more simple way, but I use an application called dWinlock to lock down the windows desktop, this hides the desktop completely and the taskbar / start button.
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Post by theniteowl » Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:00 am

I''ll give it a shot. Thanks all.

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Post by dduk » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:48 am

Another option for the list:

On my dedicated Media Center machines, I've replaced the explorer shell with ehshell.exe (Media Centre). That way the machine boots straight into Media Centre and there's nothing else running underneath it.

If I need to do any explorer-based operations, I can RDP in.

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Post by w84no1 » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:11 pm

dduk wrote:Another option for the list:

On my dedicated Media Center machines, I've replaced the explorer shell with ehshell.exe (Media Centre). That way the machine boots straight into Media Centre and there's nothing else running underneath it.

If I need to do any explorer-based operations, I can RDP in.
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Post by dduk » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:20 pm

w84no1 wrote:
dduk wrote:Another option for the list:

On my dedicated Media Center machines, I've replaced the explorer shell with ehshell.exe (Media Centre). That way the machine boots straight into Media Centre and there's nothing else running underneath it.

If I need to do any explorer-based operations, I can RDP in.
How do you do that?
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Change the string value of "Shell" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon from "Explorer.exe" to "%windir%\ehome\ehshell.exe"

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Post by EmirOfGroofunkistan » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:04 am

This might be a good option as well... I haven't tried it yet, but I'm about to :)

http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html

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