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I need to install a PC with Windows 10 pro 64bit. It will be customized with a dock to launch predefined application.

How can I close (or completely hide) the windows taskbar?

I have already found several tips to audo-hide the taskbar but it does NOT work in my case since when I close an application the taskbar appears again.

I cannot close explorer.exe because I need to I need to launch an application downloaded from the Windows AppStore (for example this: https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/store/p/pressreader/9wzdncrfj13b )

In order to launch this application, I run a BAT file containing this line: C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\NewspaperDirect.PressReader_f09x14bt6ejbt!App

If I close explorer.exe this command does NOT work anymore and I cannot launch this application anymore. Furthermore, even if I close explorer.exe after launching the application, some features of that application will not work and I will not be able to close that application hence I came to the conclusion that I must close only the taskbar keeping explorer.exe alive.

At this stage, I can take into consideration also Windows registry modification to do it.

Hope you can help me Regards GP

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You only need a simple third-party program to do it.

  1. Download NirCmd from here.
  2. Extract the downloaded file (nircmd-x64.zip or nircmd.zip).
  3. Open a command prompt window where you have extracted the contents of the file.
  4. To hide the task bar, type this command: nircmd.exe win hide class "Shell_TrayWnd". If you want to show the task bar, type this command: nircmd.exe win show class "Shell_TrayWnd"

This will hide the task bar without killing the explorer.exe process.

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