In some case, I would like my application to hide its dialog as soon as my application start. I post message "WM_HIDEWINDOW" to the main dialog self in OnInitDialog, but there is a flash in screen before the dialog was realy hidden. Is there any other good idea to prevent or reduce the flash? Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

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good idea, just what's the message number of clicking the icon in the taskbar instead of system tray area. I think we need to respond the message to minimize our application. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

Thanks for your help. I mis-thought there had not benn reply yet because I didn't receive the response mail as usual, maybe last time I missed to check "Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message". My email is : NianHawk@invalid.hotmail.com (please discard "invalid"). Which functionality! ===> I just lock the taskbar by taskbar menu. Best regards. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

It did work well, thank a lot. I have another question if you wouldn't feel disturbed, Actually I use spy to monitor taskbar, if my program send such WM_COMMAND msg to taskbar, spy can capture it. But if I do it manually by using winxp functionality, spy didn't show this msg, that is why I always can't get this msg. Could you be so kind to teach me something about it? Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

Hi Tomas, Your help would be greatly appreciated, in fact I send WM+USER+336 to taskbar, but it didn't work, which make me feel that it can't be done by sending a message. And then I try another way below: CToolBar* trayWnd = (CToolBar*)FromHandle(hShellTrayWnd); DWORD barStyle = trayWnd->GetBarStyle(); barStyle |= CBRS_SIZE_FIXED; trayWnd->SetBarStyle(barStyle); It also didn't work, I was really frustrated, the style of taskbar vary every time even though I remove "trayWnd->SetBarStyle(barStyle)". For example, sometimes barStyle is 380, but sometimes it is 376, and other times, it is another value. it is very strange for me. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

As you know, we can lock taskbar manually, But I would like to lock taskbar by my own program. I try to do it by the following code: DWORD style = GetWindowLong(hShellTrayWnd,GWL_STYLE); style &= ~WS_SIZEBOX; SetWindowLong(hShellTrayWnd, GWL_STYLE, style); Unfortunately, it didn't work as I expected. Does anyone know how to do it? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

Hi, I would like to browse all files&folder under Quick Launch for all users instead of only some certain user. Because different user was allocated with different path for Quick Launch, I have to use pidl to browse for all users. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to get its pidl by SHGetSpecialFolderLocation because I don't know the CSIDL value that identifies the folder of interest. Does anyone know it? I would really appreciate it. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

I know I can remove frequent programs list by modifying registry. but I would like my program to get frequent programs list so that I can hide some of them. So does anyone can help me on the two question below 1. How to get frequent programs list so that I can get path for each program. 2. How to hide the virtual folder in frequent programs list. If there is a virtual folder provided by a shell extension, how can I hide it? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Nothing impossible, Nothing sure

Hi, I know IShellFolder::GetAttributesOf can get property of any sys folder. But how can I hide sys folder? which function can do it? Nothing impossible, Nothing sure