How to remove the windows 8.1's start button with autoit.

[maxrealqnx]

Hi

I found a few c language code associated with it. But I believe it can be done with autoıt. Am I wrong ? Thank you in advance for your answers. Best regards 

// Checking if you are on 8.1 or not
        assert("\n\nStart Button cannot be killed/hidden since you're not running Windows 8.1", IsWindows8_1OrGreater());
        
        // You're on 8.1, good
         std::wcout << "Trying to hide Start button"; // Tell user we are about to kill the start menu
        _iconParentHwnd = FindWindow(_T("Shell_TrayWnd"), NULL); // Get the taskbar window handle
        _iconHwnd = FindWindowEx(_iconParentHwnd, NULL, _T("Start"), NULL); // Get the start button handle

        /*

        SUPER BUGGY: I was trying to resize the taskbar so that the empty space left after removing the
        start button gets utilized but the code below is really buggy and crashes the explorer process most of the time 
        so it has been commented out while I am working on a fix.

        _tBarListHwnd = FindWindowEx(_iconParentHwnd, NULL, _T("ReBarWindow32"), NULL);
        GetWindowRect(_tBarListHwnd, &_tBarList);
        GetWindowRect(_iconHwnd, &_icon);
        _newLength = _icon.left + _icon.right;
        MoveWindow(_tBarListHwnd, (_tBarList.left - _newLength), _tBarList.top, ((_tBarList.left + _tBarList.right) + _newLength), ((_tBarList.top + _tBarList.bottom) + _newLength), TRUE);

        */

        LRESULT _iconHdl = SendMessage(_iconHwnd, WM_CLOSE, NULL, NULL); // Send a WM_CLOSE message to start button
        signed int _reVal = static_cast<int>(_iconHdl); // Store the return value

        if (_reVal == 0) // Yay, the button was successfully hidden
        {
            std::wcout << "\n\nStart button icon was successfully hidden"; 
        }
        else // Looks like the start button is already hidden
            {
                std::wcout << "\n\nFailed to hide the start button. (Error: " << GetLastError() << ")";
                std::getwchar();
            }
        }

#include <windows.h>

int main( int, char *[] ) {
    PostMessage(FindWindowEx(FindWindow(("Shell_TrayWnd"), NULL), NULL, ("Start"), NULL),WM_CLOSE,0,0);
}

mrem.cpp

[guinness]

Search the help file and AutoIt beta for keywords e.g. PostMessage is _WinAPI_PostMessage() in AutoIt.

[JohnOne]

What happened when you tried WinSetState or even WinClose?

Just dumping a load of code from another language that even states it crashes is poor form.

[guinness]

it crashes is poor form.

Yeah, I was about to say pay attention to the heading "SUPER BUGGY".