{"id":448,"date":"2013-08-05T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2015-07-29T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T02:17:07","slug":"disable-taskbar-always-on-top-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/disable-taskbar-always-on-top-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable &#8220;Taskbar Always On Top&#8221; in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought of sharing the worldwide protest of Windows 7&#8217;s stupid and intended omission of allowing other windows to go over the taskbar.<\/p>\n<p>There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/54842-taskbar-always-top-disable-enable-19.html\">numerous efforts<\/a> to do this, but few of them I particular liked. So I decided to script my own AHK, and this method, so far, mimics Windows XP the closest.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">~LButton::\r\nWinGetActiveTitle, curWindow\r\nWinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on ,%curWindow%\r\nWinSet, bottom, , ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd\r\nWinSet, AlwaysOnTop, off ,%curWindow%\r\nreturn<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: after working with it a bit more, I found that the script stole the focus from some menu items, causing the inability to select a menu item unless the mouse button was held down whilst choosing, and then releasing it to choose the entry. I modified the script &#8212; and glad it worked &#8212; so that instead of using the AlwaysOnTop parameter, Top replaces it, making the script less attention-getting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">~LButton::\r\nWinGetActiveTitle, curWindow\r\nWinSet, Top, ,%curWindow%\r\nWinSet, bottom, , ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd\r\nWinSet, Top, ,%curWindow%\r\nreturn<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought of sharing the worldwide protest of Windows 7&#8217;s stupid and intended omission of allowing other windows to go over the taskbar. There have been numerous efforts to do this, but few of them I particular liked. So I decided to script my own AHK, and this method, so far, mimics Windows XP the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,32,34,33,29,31,30],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics","tag-ahk","tag-always-on-top","tag-autohotkey","tag-disable","tag-scripting","tag-taskbar","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gtd2-7e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}