Permenantly hide task bar

Hi All,
First off let me say that this is an awesome site with tons of useful info.
I have a PC in the den that is used by me, my sister, and my 2 young nephews. I would like it so that whenever my nephews log on to their desktop, the taskbar is completely hidden; not just auto-hidden, but completely gone. This will prevent them from clicking the Start button, etc. I have already had to redo this PC about 5 or 6 times because of missing files, deleted items, etc.
Is there any reg tweaks to do this, or Auto-It scripts, or VB code snippets?
Thanks for any resplonses, and thanks for a great forum.
Regards,
mike

 

Hi Major Attitude,
Thanks for the quick response. I guess what I meant to say was "completely and permanently" remove the taskbar. I had tried this approach before, but with enough random mouse movements, they eventually hit the spot, the task bar pops up, and that's all, folks.

 

I understand the motivation here, but anything can be accessed by running the task manager, clicking on File, and selecting New Task. Of course, you could disable the task manager too.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555546/en-us
That article describes how to re-enable the task manager is it has been disabled (like by a virus or malware) but you can use the info to disable it too... then again, anyone can go into regedit and fix that too (unless you rename regedit to something else). It seems to me that setting up a VERY limited account would be easier that having to disable one thing to prevent the re-enabling of something else. Where does it end?
That's my 2 cents
Good luck, and I apologize for the 'hijack'....

 

Hi dlb,
No apology necessary. These are 2 very curious boys, and any locking down is welcome.
Mike

PS
Thanks for the info, MA. I will try it out tonite.
Mike

 

Hi All,
The solution is at hand!! I used a combination of a shareware program called TaskBar Hide, which can be found with Google, and a 4 line script written with AutoIt, which can also be found with Google. Works like a charm!
Thanks to all of those who helped me out.
Regards,
Mike