by Brandon Watrous (1 Submission)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 14th December 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: (1 Votes)
Hides and Shows the Start Menu
API Declarations
Public Const SW_SHOW = 5
Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Public Const SW_HIDE = 0
Sub Computer_Hide_Startmenu()
Dim findstartmenu&
Dim hidenow&
findstartmenu& = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
hidenow& = ShowWindow(findstartmenu&, SW_HIDE)
End Sub
'Shows Start Menu
Sub Computer_Show_StartMenu()
Dim findstartmenu&
Dim shownow&
findstartmenu& = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
shownow& = ShowWindow(findstartmenu&, SW_SHOW)
End Sub