taskbar Questions

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Here's the code I have been using... (and it's been working great!) function DoUnpin([string]$appname) { $ErrorActionPreference = 'silentlycontinue' ((New-Object -Com Shell.Application).NameSpace...
Plumy asked 4/12, 2020 at 20:59

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A given moment my WPF app needs user attention. I know it is possible to make the Windows 7 taskbar icon to flash with a yellow color. I tried so far: Window.Activate Attempts to bring the wind...
Hermilahermina asked 25/2, 2011 at 14:13

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I like to have Task Manager (%windows%\system32\taskmgr.exe) running all the time on my PC to show CPU activity. I check Options>Hide When Minimized so that it only shows in the system tra...
Leptosome asked 15/10, 2015 at 19:18

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I have a window, which I SetWindowPos(window, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN), GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN), SWP_FRAMECHANGED); It covers the whole screen, ok, but it takes a while ...
Tad asked 4/3, 2010 at 20:23

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Even the programmatic pinning of icons in Windows 7 seems it's not permitted (like it says here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378460(v=VS.85).aspx), there are some methods for doing th...
Inconsistent asked 29/7, 2011 at 11:0

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Let's say I have two programs called launcher.exe and launchee.exe. The launcher display a button which -when clicked- starts launchee.exe and launchee.exe is a simple hello world program. If I d...
Rambo asked 31/1, 2018 at 10:23

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We have an application, let's call it MyApp. On installation, we create a desktop icon for MyApp, which basically calls MyLauncher.exe /launch MyApp.exe. MyLauncher does some useful stuff (check fo...
Ess asked 15/3, 2012 at 16:51

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I'm using PyQt4 to display a progress bar in my application, but I want it to also be seen on the taskbar, just like many programs such as winRAR and google chrome do. Is there a way to make that h...
Frierson asked 28/7, 2011 at 22:46

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Most applications only have "Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close", however MS SQL offers extra options "Help, Customize view". Along those lines, is it possible to add to the right cl...
Mediterranean asked 30/9, 2008 at 15:4

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Like some other people who have asked similar questions, I was going nuts trying to 'fix' my JFileChooser dialog box generation code until I noticed that it is being generated, but it is appearing ...
Cystolith asked 3/7, 2013 at 2:9

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in previous versions of windows you could create a taskbar that was actually a html page... Is there any way, in windows 10, to put any custom content on the task bar - essentially I want to write ...
Specialism asked 9/4, 2019 at 6:40

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Basically I made console app that performs some task that takes a few minutes. I'd like to have it flash in the taskbar to let me know when it's done doing its thing.
Hoar asked 27/5, 2010 at 17:11

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I have a form I set to Maximized, but for some reason it's ignoring the taskbar and maximizing to the entire screen. Is that typical? Is there a workaround? I'm running Windows XP with a dual...
Vitamin asked 10/6, 2009 at 12:32

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The Pin to taskbar option is creating issues with my electron app. I would like to know how to disable the right click of a electron app in the Windows Taskbar. I don't want to show the entire op...
Brainy asked 21/1, 2019 at 18:50

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I need to set or toggle auto-hiding of Windows 10 taskbar programmatically. An action bound to a hotkey for productivity and convenience. Is there a command-line command or a DLL call which allows...
Polyglot asked 19/11, 2018 at 1:38

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I want to minimize a Delphi application to the systray instead of the task bar. The necessary steps seem to be the following: Create icon which should then be displayed in the systray. When the ...
Donnell asked 22/5, 2010 at 18:37

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I need to know whether the Windows taskbar is hidden or not. I believe there is no .NET method to do this, and also I have come across a lot of "how to hide and show the taskbar" samples, but I hav...
Dime asked 9/1, 2010 at 5:32

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We have an application that self-updates using a Laucher.exe process which copies down new App.exe and DLLs from a server then runs them in a separate process. This was all working very well until...
Emad asked 30/9, 2010 at 9:13

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I have an application I run using pythonw.exe. I just click on my .pyw file and it runs. It's using Qt and I have set up an icon that both shows in the window and in the taskbar. However when I tr...
Sixpenny asked 26/2, 2018 at 6:51

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I want to display a text in the taskbar like the NetSpeedMonitor program . I thought about how Windows did that with der Date and Time display, but I couldn't find any answer. I want to do this wit...
Pitchfork asked 12/5, 2017 at 15:46

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I am trying to show a progress in the taskbar of the plasma desktop using the KDE Frameworks. In short, it want to do the same thing as dolphin, when it copies files: I'm kinda stuck, because I ...
Aude asked 9/5, 2017 at 16:34

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I'm working on an applcation in Python's PyQt4 and cannot find how to change the taskbar icon. I made my .ui files in Qt's Designer, where I can change the windowIcon properties. But that is not wh...
Katerine asked 14/9, 2012 at 22:12

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All other apps that can be pinned to the taskbar behave well. But Eclipse doesn't show recently open projects when I right click it. It also doesn't allow to pin some projects inside it. Note that ...
Redtop asked 8/3, 2011 at 15:37

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Is there a way to make my Python console application's window flash in the Windows taskbar, to get a user's attention? My script will be run exclusively in a relatively homogeneous Windows environ...
Nope asked 15/7, 2010 at 18:28

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I use Launch4j as a wrapper for my Java application under Windows 7, which, to my understanding, in essence forks an instance of javaw.exe that in turn interprets the Java code. As a result, when a...
Sidle asked 2/12, 2009 at 17:44

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