Programmatically open charm bar, power bar and start menu with C#

Question

How to programatically open:

in windows 8?

I want to be able to open them from within my c# application

Cannot find the documentation I need

Thanks!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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I'd bet sending the Windows key (and the other key, as needed), would be sufficient.

Here is another post on how to do so with an API call.

To open...

... the Start Screen - just send the Windows key.
... the Charms - send the Windows key + C.
... the settings Charms bar (closet to the power options) - send the Windows key + I.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Jan 04 '13 at 00:55

Daniel A. White

Going to Start Screen won't work if you're already in start screen... You need to minimize everything and then send LWin. To Minimize all see here: https://amalhashim.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/c-show-desktop/ – ZivS Jan 20 '15 at 08:47

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