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Microsoft's UX guidelines recommend that I use overlay icons to show when my application has information about statuses, like unread messages or connectivity. However, I not having much luck finding a clear tutorial on how to get starting using overlay icons in my application. Can someone recommend one, or better yet, create a tutorial on their blog for betterment of mankind? (The question title specifically mentions Windows 7, but I think it would also be useful for Vista to be included in this tutorial, as well as backwards compatibility issues with Windows XP, etc.) Edit : This question was

My code: $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application" $ie.navigate("http://localhost") $ie.visible = $true $ie.fullscreen = $true However, after fullscreen, the window still appears behind the Windows taskbar. When I click the window to give it focus, the taskbar falls behind and it appears how I want it to. How can I do this programmatically? Thank you! This was a toughy... Not as simple as I thought. I ended up using a cheat and adding the VB assembly: Add-Type -Assembly "Microsoft.VisualBasic" $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application" $ie.navigate("http://localhost") $ie

I am playing around with powershell and am changing some taskbar settings by changing the registry key. For example i have written an autohide enable disable function. $autoHideSettingsPath = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2"; $autoHideValueName = "Settings"; Function toggleAutohideRegistrySettings($enable) { $key = Get-ItemProperty -Path $autoHideSettingsPath -Name $autoHideValueName; Write-Host "key is: " + $key if($enable) { $key.$autoHIdeValueName[8] = $key.$autoHideValueName[8] -bor 1; }else{ $key.$autoHIdeValueName[8] = $key.$autoHideValueName[8]

I am developing an Adobe Air app. I need to set an icon to the app so it is shown on the task bar. I added the icon tag to the descriptor file but it is not working and I really don't know why, any ideas? Two things that might be throwing you off: 1) the icons block is commented out by default in the auto-generated descriptor file, and is an easy thing to overlook 2) the icons specified in a descriptor file don't appear in the app unless you build a release build, and install the resulting .air file. A debug build will only show the AIR icon. At least these are the behaviors I experience in

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 haven't seen anything based on what I am looking for. I am not familiar with the Windows API, so I find it hard to understand traditional Windows code. Can someone please direct me to an article or type code telling whether the current state of the taskbar is hidden or not? I am coding in C#. Thanks. winSharp93 presents a helper class (" Find out Size (and position) of the taskbar ") that seems to work.

Is there any API that allows to control which icons are shown in the Windows (7) Taskbar at a given time? I would like to have the processes still running, but their icons not show up on the taskbar. See the various extended window styles in CreateWindowEx , and figure out which one suits your needs. (Many of them deal with taskbar items, it's not just one.) Then just set the style with SetWindowLong . There's also ITaskbarList::DeleteTab , but I really don't recommend this for hiding your window. I want the window to be hidden from view, including from the taskbar; Hide the window. ShowWindow