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
- 20th October, 2004: Initial post
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but if possible just make it by starting in command mode and stopping through command mode it is very useful
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 I wondered if the program to move the start button can be modified so that when the button stops moving it will go to the right end of the taskbar rather than going to the left end of the taskbar.
Edwerd
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Nice work. Real fun.
Now, can you tell me whether I can trap the event generated by clicking the Start menu (or by pressing the Windows key on keyboard). I have a Win32 application running on the Desktop and I need to know when the Start menu popup appears. Is there a message broadcasted by the OS. Can I do this without hooking the mouse and keyboard events?
Thanks in advance.
Dharmveer (dharmveersingh@yahoo.com)
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Hi,
This is a nice piece of code.
Can you suggest a way so that I can move the entire toolbar at bottom. And put a rectangular dialog at the bottom of the monitor.
Which means moving the entire desktop up and draw the dialog at the bottom of it.
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Hmm, yes, very impressive. One problem though. I run Button.exe and click on "Move Start Button". Start button starts moving. The Button.exe window has closed, so I try running Button.exe again and click on "Stop Moving Start Button". It doesn't stop. Reboot. 
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Hi Chrish,
When you click on Move Start Button, the Start button on the taskbar starts moving but the application does'nt closes rather it goes and sits inside your system tray from where you can either stop the moving or open up the application again.
thanx
Vikram Kashyap
"You will never fail until you stop trying"
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That seems to work. I didn't notice the strange red cone-shaped icon in my system tray (probably because of all the other strange unidentified icons that are there).
You said "To see how it works, simply download the exe and run the application." Well that's what I did. I think a bit more explanation is needed.
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hi vekrum
please improve ur article by explaining it with certain diagrams.
u can use my projects
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