XP: Remove the Taskbar from your screen
Contributed by William_Wilson 
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 said on November 26, 2008
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 said on February 9, 2009
i appear same icones as desktop in my tasbar how i remove them from taskbar
Harsh Pandya said on April 1, 2010
HI it’s really good and it’s realy working well but it is longer process did you have not any short cut method to do this or if you have any softwere to do this task easily please tell me if it is posible. and their is also problem accures to do this thing so keep it perfect and reply fast please…………….
Yea..... said on June 4, 2010
Harsh you can do this stuff through the group policy settings if you like. Just type gpedit.msc through the run command, then go to User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Start Menu and Taskbar and play around with the values
Guest said on June 21, 2010
OK THIS IS ALL JUST A RISKY WASTE OF TIME!
TO REALLY ERASE YOUR TASKBAR COMPLETELY, GOTO TASK MANAGER, PROSSESSES, AND DELETE: EXPLORER.EXE. AND WHENEVER YOU WANT IS BACK OPEN TASK MANAGER AND CLICK NEW TASK AND TYPE: EXPLORER.EXE!!!!!
DISCLAIMER: THIS MIGHT ERASE ICONS NOT COMPLETELY, BUT ERASED FROM VIEW!
lol
Tjbrad04 said on October 28, 2010
Yeah… The only that I see under User Configuration>Administrative Templates is “Windows Components” and there is no “Start Menu” or “Taskbar” anywhere in there.
Kingnitinagarwal said on January 24, 2011
yuuup its really working man thanks for suggestion
Kingnitinagarwal said on January 24, 2011
if u have any suggestion for only removing taskar.as ur method is gud but it remove all icon from desktop.