hide taskbar and and desktop icons... FOR GOOD!! (this is a prank, in case you thought otherwise)

Step 5 Next, the taskbar

No, its time for the taskbar disappear.

This is serious business now, because, this involves killing the explorer process, and this is what makes the computer seem unresponsive. Ending the explorer process makes the windows key non-functional, and disables (rather closes) the taskbar and the desktop icons.

This is also the most important step of this Instructable. End it if you know how to, or read on.

[Note: try this trick on the mac-look-on-XP thing, and lemme know the results, but I think clicking on the desktop icon in rocket deck will either invoke explorer, or ending it will... I dunno... close rocket deck... or maybe remove the icons... I dunno... But worth trying]

1. open task manager: right click on taskbar, select task manager, or alternatively use the key combination ctrl + shift + esc OR ctrl + alt + delete.

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[totos]

the mac-look-on-XP thing (the rocket dock) is separate from Explorer, so it will continue functioning. Clicking on the show desktop icon on the mac-look-on-XP thing will start explorer, so you have to kill it as well (the process is called RocketDock.exe)