[tiwas]

Hi,

I've been messing around with my registry hacks now, and there's only one thing I can think of (that seems possible) left to fix - customizing the task bar.

For some reason nothing seems to "bite". I've tried exporting my reg keys after setting the options I want (without rebooting first, and with rebooting first), but...when importing them back they don't do anything.

What I've got in the reg is this:

 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams]
"Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\
  69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,06,00,00,00,43,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults]
"{F3364BA0-65B9-11CE-A9BA-00AA004AE837}"=hex:1c,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
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  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop]
"TaskbarWinXP"=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,e2,2b,d8,\
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"Toolbars"=hex:11,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\Explorer]
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Anyone able to help out ?

Cheers!

Please use codebox tag.

[gunsmokingman]

The Taskbar is control by the ms style that windows uses.

[tingpu]

Where does the windows store the position information of the taskbar?

I want to set the taskbar on the top of the desktop at first logon.

[andregcasal]

After a little search here on MSFN it seems no one knows much about costumizing the task bar. I found some registry hacks for setting the XP look on Task Bar but nothing happens, it keeps the classic look, don't know why...

All my Theme files where made using the XP Task Bar look, so it isn't the Theme file that control the task bar behavior. If anyone could help us out, i'll be gratefull.

[gunsmokingman]

Do you mean something like the posted image, this is my taskbar and you have to change the image that the theme uses. I used TGsoft Style Builder to make my own ms styles.

Attached File(s)

•  TaskBar.png (26.74K)
  Number of downloads: 76

This post has been edited by gunsmokingman: 05 April 2006 - 12:22 AM

[andregcasal]

Well, it seems i made a little mistake (due to beeing portuguese) and confused the task bar with the start menu. Anyway, if anyone knows something about costumizing the task bar (like the position on screen) let us know.

André G. Casal

[HyperHacker]

There's one neat little tweak I know of for both the taskbar and Start menu: translucency. You need the program NirCmd.exe (highly recommended for automating things or people who use the command line a lot) or my Advanced Window Menu. With nircmd, you set transparency for the taskbar using the command line:
nircmd win trans class "Shell_TrayWnd" x
Where x is a number from 0 to 255; 0 is invisible and 255 is solid. (Eg 178 is 30% translucent.) For the Start menu, you can do similar:
nircmd cmdwait 5000 win trans title "Start Menu" x
After running this, open the Start menu within 5 seconds and keep it open, it should turn translucent.
The advantage to using NirCmd is you can put it in a startup script.

Using AWM, you simply click on the taskbar, click the menu button, go to Translucency and select something. (If you have your taskbar on the right, make sure you click it first, as the button will appear in the same place if your desktop window has focus, and applying translucency to that can mess things up.) For the Start menu you have to pop up the menu, then click the button, but it can take a few tries as the Start menu will disappear. Unfortunately ever since I installed some update a while ago this no longer works; the menu stays solid.

However, there are drawbacks to making the Start menu translucent. First off, it tends to revert to fully opaque every now and then. Second, the menu won't redraw when it appears if it's translucent; you'll notice the 'Recent Programs' list seems to stay the same, but once you move your mouse over it, it updates. Third, sub-menus stay opaque. Also, having any window at all translucent and the Start menu opaque can be a problem; if the menu pops up over a translucent window, an image of it will remain behind that window until it's minimized and restored or until you remove and re-apply translucency (which is especially a problem with the taskbar as the menu always covers it and you can't minimize it).

BTW if you plan to use Nircmd in a batch script, be aware that the 5-second delay only applies to itself; the batch file will continue running during this delay.