How do I show the taskbar without activating it?

I want make the taskbar visible from my program. I don't want to make the taskbar active, only visible so I can see the system tray when I have the auto-hide taskbar option enabled in Windows. Is there any way to do this?

/Anders

This function should do it:

Code:

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void SetTaskbarScreenArea(BOOL bFull){
 RECT rcScreen;
 GetWindowRect(GetDesktopWindow(),&rcScreen);
 if(bFull){
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETWORKAREA,0,&rcScreen,SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
 } else {
  RECT rcVis,rcScreen,rcTask;
  HWND taskbar=FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd",0); // get taskbar window
  BOOL istaskbar=taskbar&&IsWindow(taskbar)&&IsWindowVisible(taskbar);
  if(istaskbar)
  GetWindowRect(taskbar,&rcTask);
  else SetRectEmpty(&rcTask);
  SubtractRect(&rcVis,&rcScreen,&rcTask);
  SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETWORKAREA,0,&rcVis,SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
 }
}

void ShowTaskbar(BOOL bShow){
 HWND taskbar=FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd",0); // get taskbar window
 BOOL istaskbar=taskbar&&IsWindow(taskbar);
 if(istaskbar){
  if(bShow){
  ShowWindow(taskbar,SW_RESTORE);
  SetTaskbarScreenArea(FALSE);
  } else {
  ShowWindow(taskbar,SW_HIDE);
  SetTaskbarScreenArea(TRUE);
  }
 }
}

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