For programming questions about the application switcher and launcher on Windows (or other operating systems copying its desktop environment), usually docked to the bottom of the screen. Questions might relate to interacting with and/or modifying the taskbar's behaviors.
Questions tagged [taskbar]
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Windows 10 icons missing in the task bar
On my laptop with Windows 10, 2 thumbnails are missing in the task bar. The 2 applications are pinned to the taskbar but the thumbnails are not visible.
To be more specific. It's the Edge and Store thumbnails.
The empty spaces in the task bar show…

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Battery icon disappears in Windows 7
I don't know why suddenly the battery icon disappears from the taskbar and the System Icons settings page is displaying that option as disabled:
Can anyone help me please. How can I get back the battery icon?

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VB.NET hide taskbar icon of an external application using win32 api
In my project I need to hide the icon of an external application from taskbar. I am able to fetch appropriate window handle using FindWindow method in user32.dll
Is there any function to hide taskbar icon, something like:
HideTaskbarIcon (hwnd as…

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