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I want my application to hide the taskbar icon for a different application
Eg. If the app was notepad
I want my app to hide the icon on the taskbar "Untitiled - Notepad" whilst
leaving the notepad application in its normal state on the screen.

Is this possible?
Jul 6 '06 #1
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