After an initial attempt here at getting to grips with the Charms bar being an intrusion... I dug a bit deeper and did some alternate coding on disabling Charms...(primarily as the current solution causes a flash of the foreground window's title bar when Charms gets hidden)
First I tried killing the Charms process itself - but Windows explorer went nuts and restarted itself (with Charms - further proof that Charms is fully integrated therein)
I have thus far not found a way to deactivate Charms without some negative effect .. I recoded the method to hide the Charms bar but this removes focus from the foreground window and requires adddition user interaction (tap/click the current window to re-focus)
See the code below... NB: uncommenting the SendMessage line (and commenting out the SetWindowsPos line gives the flash effect - i.e moves focus back to the initial window)
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First I tried killing the Charms process itself - but Windows explorer went nuts and restarted itself (with Charms - further proof that Charms is fully integrated therein)
I have thus far not found a way to deactivate Charms without some negative effect .. I recoded the method to hide the Charms bar but this removes focus from the foreground window and requires adddition user interaction (tap/click the current window to re-focus)
See the code below... NB: uncommenting the SendMessage line (and commenting out the SetWindowsPos line gives the flash effect - i.e moves focus back to the initial window)
Code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace NoCharm
{
class Program
{
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "FindWindow", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr ZeroOnly, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)]
private static extern short GetKeyState(int keyCode); // Will be used to re-enable Win+C
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd,int msg, int wParam, int lParam);
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetWindowPos")]
static extern bool SetWindowPos(
int hWnd, // Window handle
int hWndInsertAfter, // Placement-order handle
int X, // Horizontal position
int Y, // Vertical position
int cx, // Width
int cy, // Height
uint uFlags); // Window positioning flags
public const int WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x0112;
public const int SC_CLOSE = 0xF060;
public const int SC_MINIMIZE = 0xF020; //used with WM_SYSCOMMAND has the same effect as SetWindowPos and SMP_NOMOVE
public const uint SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002 ;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
while (true)
{
IntPtr hWndCharmBar = FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr.Zero, "Charm Bar");
IntPtr hWndCharmClock = FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr.Zero, "Clock and Date");
SetWindowPos((int)hWndCharmBar,0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE);
//SendMessage(hWndCharmClock, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0);
//SendMessage(hWndCharmBar, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0);
Thread.Sleep(10); // sleep to save CPU resources... uses 0% CPU and 1.7 MB RAM
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
Process.GetCurrentProcess().WaitForExit();
}
}
}Download binary.
