Move Start Button

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Introduction

This is a very small and cool utility that lets the user move his/her start button available on the taskbar. The button moves smoothly from Left to Right. The idea here is not to move the Start button but to tell that once you have the handle of the window, you can do almost anything with it, from hiding, enabling, moving, getting text, setting text and so on.

My example works on the Start button, where I have taken the handle of the Start button using the FindWindowEx API. And the best program to check the handles is our own Spy++. I've also used the same technique to move Yahoo and MSN messenger which was quite a lot of fun. To see how it works, simply download the EXE and run the application.

History

• 20^th October, 2004: Initial post 

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