XP: Remove the Taskbar from your screen

Contributor Icon Contributed by William_Wilson Date Icon March 15, 2006  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Disable/Remove the Taskbar


The following script saved as removeTaskbar.reg will remove all of the items individually, forcing them not to show up on the desktop.


REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
“NoSetTaskbar”=dword:00000001
“NoTrayItemsDisplay”=dword:00000001
“HideClock”=dword:00000001
“NoToolbarsOnTaskbar”=dword:00000001
“NoTrayContextMenu”=dword:00000001
“NoSaveSettings”=dword:00000000

*NOTE if you wish to have this only applied until your next reboot, run this with:
“NoSaveSettings”=dword:00000001 instead.

this will keep windows from saving these settings, and the taskbar should reappear on your next reboot :)

**If it doesn’t, change all the values to 000000 to disable ALL features, also remove the - from the first path line. This will return the taskbar and it’s components.
*NOTE you may have to re-add any toolbars, etc you had previously added to the taskbar.

Questions/Comments: william_a_wilson@hotmail.com
-William. ยง (marvin_gohan)

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  • Alpha Delta
    Actually, this doesn't remove the taskbar per se, all it does is remove all items from the taskbar and, in most cases, prevents the user from resetting them. The NoSetTaskbar item prevents the Taskbar & Start Menu menu from opening, the NoTrayItemsDisplay hides all systray icons, HideClock does what it says, NoToolbarsOnTaskbar removes all the toolbars (such as Language Bar, Quick Start et cetera), NoTrayContextMenu removes the menus that would appear when right-clicking (items on) the taskbar, and (finally) NoSaveSettings, which is already explained.

    However, as I said, none of these keys actually remove the taskbar...
  • umer
    i appear same icones as desktop in my tasbar how i remove them from taskbar
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