📜 VBScript (WSH)
Hide Taskbar Search Box (VBScript)
Hides the search box on the taskbar, leaving just an icon or nothing. Applies the tweak via WScript.Shell.RegWrite.
SetDisableTaskbarSearchBox.vbs
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' SetDisableTaskbarSearchBox.vbs
'
' Hide Taskbar Search Box.
' Hides the search box on the taskbar, leaving just an icon or nothing.
'
' Usage: cscript SetDisableTaskbarSearchBox.vbs
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Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
On Error Resume Next
objShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\SearchboxTaskbarMode", 0, "REG_DWORD"
If Err.Number = 0 Then
WScript.Echo "Hide Taskbar Search Box applied."
Else
WScript.Echo "Failed to apply tweak (Error " & Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description & ")"
End If
On Error Goto 0