I want to programaticaly hide the systray in Win98SE. My code does hide the systray for a brief moment but then it quickly comes back. Can someone advice me a posible solution to this re-apearing systray. HWND Bar, Tray; Bar = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL); Tray = FindWindowEx(Bar, NULL, "TrayNotifyWnd", NULL); ShowWindow(Tray, SW_HIDE); The program I am makeing is a joke, it pretends to delete the start button, clock, systray, task windows, taskbar, then desktop. Displays a message and puts everything back. The systray is the only thing holding me back.

Just a stab in the dark here, but maybe the window is invalidated after your call, in which case it gets a repaint msg from the system queue? Guess you could subclass and peekmsg or set a hook? Maybe validate the window? Dunno, just guessing.

Thanks, Did some searching with these new terms, subclass, hook and peekmsg and found an article discussing this exact problem I am haveing. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1163580,00.asp Seems my firewall icon updates itself periodicaly, and thus brings the systray back.