Move window behind desktop icons

[WildByDesign]

5 hours ago, argumentum said:

...be mindful of everyone and everything  ? 

That's a very good point. I shouldn't have used a hardcoded path like that. I like the creative way that you used the @AutoItExe macro to get the AutoIt install directory. Thanks for sharing.

 

5 hours ago, ioa747 said:

to test different patterns simultaneously

This was a really fun example. Thanks for sharing. I didn't expect that a child GUI would work in this type of situation, so that was a neat surprise.

[WildByDesign]

On 10/12/2025 at 6:39 AM, WildByDesign said:

In Advanced System Properties (SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe) in the Performance settings dialog - Visual Effects tab, there is a checkbox labelled "Animate controls and element inside windows".

Somebody has figured out how to spawn a WorkerW window under Progman even when animations are disabled. This is in C++, so hopefully somebody with better knowledge can understand this.

This is what we have already been doing in this thread:

SendMessageTimeoutW(hWndProgman, 0x052C, 0, 0, SMTO_NORMAL, 250, nullptr);

Here is the trick that works even with animations disabled:

SendMessageTimeoutW(hWndProgman, 0x052C, 13, 1, SMTO_NORMAL, 250, nullptr);

 

EDIT: Actually this seems easy...

_WinAPI_SendMessageTimeout($hProgman, 0x052C, 13, 1, 250, $SMTO_NORMAL)

 

EDIT2:  Confirmed working with animations disabled.

Edited Thursday at 10:03 PM by WildByDesign