Gaming How to remove a program from the taskbar?

[da_head]

no i'm not askin for the system tray. lets just say i have a game open for instance, and if i minimized it, it wouldn't be there. is there any way to do this within windows or a 3rd party program?


EDIT: is it just me or is imageshack RLY slow rite now?

 

[Mewgia]

Image shack is always slow and never works very well, at least in my experience.

Use photobucket, tinypic, or majhost instead.


But on topic: I have no idea how to do that. It would be nice to be able to completely hide and restore something with a hotkey, though. I know some programs do have that function, but I don't know of something where you can port the function over to any application.

 

[da_head]

ok i found this sketchy freeware called: taskbar button manager. it gets the job done, though i would really prefer something better. anyone?

 

[Mewgia]

ok i found this sketchy freeware called: taskbar button manager. it gets the job done, though i would really prefer something better. anyone?

How is it sketchy?

 

[Gore]

miniMIZE

Add things you want to show up to exceptions and remove thumbnails from the desktop.

 

[Mewgia]

miniMIZE

Add things you want to show up to exceptions and remove thumbnails from the desktop.

How do you get them back up once they are invisible? Is there a hotkey?

 

[ENDscape]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

 

[Mewgia]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

Interesting.

Useful trick, may put it to use sometime.

 

[ENDscape]

Also alt + esc works like alt + tab.

 

[da_head]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

wait. are you suggesting i use alt+tab with the program gore suggested? or just alt+tab..

 

[Mewgia]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

wait. are you suggesting i use alt+tab with the program gore suggested? or just alt+tab..

I think he's saying use miniMIZE as Gore said, and then to get back to the window just Alt+Tab to it.

Alt+Tab by itself does not hide the window.

 

[ENDscape]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

wait. are you suggesting i use alt+tab with the program gore suggested? or just alt+tab..

I was answering mewgia when he asked how to get it back up after its hidden from the taskbar.

 

[da_head]

Alt + tab allows you to switch windows.
My firefox portable doesnt show on the taskbar when minimized but when i alt+tab to it it shows up.

wait. are you suggesting i use alt+tab with the program gore suggested? or just alt+tab..

I was answering mewgia when he asked how to get it back up after its hidden from the taskbar.

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