Hello has anyone succeded in refreshing the taskbar on windows 7.

I know you can manipulate the explorer.exe and restart it, but thats not an option, people may loose loads of stuff when doing this fix on their computers. I need a legal and nice way to refresh explorer.exe or the taskar/systray.

example.

I wanna add this reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ExtraIconsOnMinimized"=dword:00000000
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\MSUTB]
"ShowDeskBand"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"ctfmon.exe"=-

This will remove the language bar from the botton of the taskbar/systray, but you need to restart/logout of windows or do the dirty hack(killing explorer) before it applys to users.

Edited January 28, 201115 yr by wazer

Sorry for spelling mistake should say taskbar not toolbar like in IE

For just refresh try this :

#NoTrayIcon
#include <Array.au3>

_UpdateExplorer ( )

Func _UpdateExplorer ( )
	Local $_WinOpt = Opt ( "WinSearchChildren", True ), $_PARAM = 107040
	If @OSVersion = "WIN_XP" Then $_PARAM = 28931
    $_WinListArray = WinList ( "[REGEXPCLASS:(Explore|Cabinet)WClass]" ) 
	For $_I = 0 To UBound ( $_WinListArray ) - 1
		DllCall ( "user32.dll", "long"  , "SendMessage", "hwnd", $_WinListArray[$_I][1], "int", 0x111, "int"   , $_PARAM , "int"  , 0 )
	Next	
	$_WinListArray = WinList ( "[REGEXPCLASS:(Progman|#32770|SHELLDLL_DefView)]" )
	For $_I = 0 To UBound ( $_WinListArray ) - 1
		DllCall ( "user32.dll", "long"  , "SendMessage", "hwnd", $_WinListArray[$_I][1], "int", 0x111, "int"   , $_PARAM , "int"  , 0 )
	Next
EndFunc ;==> _UpdateExplorer ( )

But you need to restart explorer for apply your changes like here

Edited January 29, 201115 yr by wakillon