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Hiding/showing the Windows 95 taskbar

 

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Use these functions to hide or show the Windows 95 taskbar programmatically from your Delphi application:

 
procedure hideTaskbar;
var
  wndHandle : THandle;
  wndClass : array[0..50] of Char;
begin
  StrPCopy(@wndClass[0], 'Shell_TrayWnd');
  wndHandle := FindWindow(@wndClass[0], nil);
  ShowWindow(wndHandle, SW_HIDE); // This hides the taskbarend;

procedure showTaskbar;
var
  wndHandle : THandle;
  wndClass : array[0..50] of Char;
begin
  StrPCopy(@wndClass[0], 'Shell_TrayWnd');
  wndHandle := FindWindow(@wndClass[0], nil);
  ShowWindow(wndHandle, SW_RESTORE); // This restores the taskbarend; 

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