OT: Hide|Show taskbar with Nircmd

[mr_es335]

Good day

A number of "things"...

Thing 1: On one hand, I am not sure of many of you, but I do prefer to have the taskbar visible - as I do use the Quick Launch element of the taskbar somewhat frequently. This simply means that using the "Auto-hide the taskbar" functionality is really not an option for me.

Thing 2: On the other hand, screen real estate with RML Lab software is always at a loss - so doing all that one can to make available that real estate is an important one. The question then is, "How does one make use of all available real estate while maintaining functionality?" Simple...NirCmd!

Thing 3: Nircmd to the rescue...
Nircmd has a command entitled, "win" that performs a number of feature-sets...one being able to call a "class" - with class simply being used in object-oriented programming to describe one or more objects. One such class is "Shell_TrayWnd".

So, I have developed two routines, the first, for hiding the taskbar then launching SAC|SAW, and the second, for closing SAC|SAW then showing the taskbar. All seems simple enough.

The following are two condensed versions of the routines...all un-commented for the sake of simplicity...

...first, the hide|launch routine...
@echo off
nircmd.exe win hide class Shell_TrayWnd
nircmd elevatecmd exec max C:\RML\SAC\SAC64.exe
exit

...then the close|show routine...
@echo off
nircmd win close title "SAC64"
nircmd wait 1500
nircmd win show class Shell_TrayWnd
exit

All-in-all...pretty slick...and well worth the consideration!
PS: Here again is a link to NirCmd.

Thing 4: Using .cmd instead of .bat - "And now, for something completely different"...
As I understand it, .bat is the old 16-bit naming convention, and .cmd is the newer 32-bit naming convention. More importantly, cmd.exe is 64-bit whilst cmd.exe*32 is 32-bit...obviously. So all 64-bit OS's will use the 64-bit version of .cmd. Both of these "facts" were unknown to me until a few weeks back...so I now use .cmd instead of .bat.

Anyhow, I hope that some will find the above information of some practicable use?

[mr_es335]

Good day,

As an aside, the above routine really does NOT DO as expected...! My sincerest apologies...

To obtain the expected results, I have come across a handy little utility called, "toggleTaskbarAutohide".
***8226; You may download the file here: [Click_me]

To make this utility actually work, unzip the contents and copy the exe to the Windows folder.

Then consider the following routine...

@echo off
nircmd elevatecmd exec max toggleTaskbarAutohide.exe
nircmd elevatecmd exec max C:\RML\SAC\SAC64.exe
nircmd wait 1000
nircmd win close title "SAC64"
nircmd wait 3000
nircmd elevatecmd exec max toggleTaskbarAutohide.exe
exit

The above now does what it is supposed to do.

Again my apologies for the mix up!