Win2k geekery request
Feb. 15th, 2004 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothI want to be able to run a program on the main PC the clients play with at work without it being bleeding obvious it's running: I want to be able to hide a program from the taskbar.
It's not designed to be able to do this. I don't have the source to alter it so it does.
The one thing I liked about Win XP before wiping the drive and installing Win2k was that when you log off an account in XP, the programs you were running stay running in the background. They don't in 2k, at least in the default settings...
I can hide the entire taskbar, but that's a bit obvious.
Suggestions?
It's not designed to be able to do this. I don't have the source to alter it so it does.
The one thing I liked about Win XP before wiping the drive and installing Win2k was that when you log off an account in XP, the programs you were running stay running in the background. They don't in 2k, at least in the default settings...
I can hide the entire taskbar, but that's a bit obvious.
Suggestions?
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Date: 2004-02-15 07:08 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-15 11:58 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-16 05:04 am (UTC)More geek answer: Many commercial applications, such as the MS Office products, also have a COM API to access some of their features. It may be possible to write a short program that itself doesn't show up in the taskbar and uses the function you want in this way. Requires expert knowledge and tools.
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Date: 2004-02-16 08:42 am (UTC)