Hide Start Menu and Start Button in VB.NET

Question

I'm setting my console full screen but I also want to hide the task bar and the start button in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2010

Thanks

This may help: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1165879/62576 – Ken White Nov 30 '12 at 16:53 — Ken White, Nov 30 '12 at 16:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '13 at 10:50

One way of hiding the taskbar is by ending the explorer process.

For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcesses
    If p.ProcessName = "explore" Then
       p.Kill()
    End If
Next

When you're finished you'll have to restart the explorer process.

Process.Start("explorer")

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '19 at 10:10

I ended using Sam solution, but I did another way as using Process.Kill didn't prevent explorer.exe to restart automatically.

Had to use taskkill this way:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("taskkill.exe", " /f /im explorer.exe")

Then when you close your application you call explorer.exe again:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Windows\explorer.exe")

I had to use the full path because calling "explorer.exe" didn't restore the task bar.

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