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Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 724

Hide Start Menu and Start Button in VB.NET

I'm setting my console full screen but I also want to hide the task bar and the start button in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2010

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3071

Answers (2)

Marçal Torroella
Marçal Torroella

Reputation: 143

I ended using Sam solution, but I did another way as using Process.Kill didn't prevent explorer.exe to restart automatically.

Had to use taskkill this way:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("taskkill.exe", " /f /im explorer.exe")

Then when you close your application you call explorer.exe again:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Windows\explorer.exe")

I had to use the full path because calling "explorer.exe" didn't restore the task bar.

Upvotes: 0

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 7398

One way of hiding the taskbar is by ending the explorer process.

For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcesses
    If p.ProcessName = "explore" Then
       p.Kill()
    End If
Next

When you're finished you'll have to restart the explorer process.

Process.Start("explorer")

Upvotes: 1

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