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Howard Roark · 03/19/08, 6:23 AM

I just got a beautiful and gigantic new monitor and I want to take full advantage of letting WoW look the best it can, and I like the way WoW looks in full screen mode, but I always prefer playing in windowed mode because I constantly alt tab to a web browser (and I do mean constantly, sometimes between every global cooldown) or another program. I just play fully maxamized in windowed mode.

I guess I'm just a little bit OCD but the title bar and the taskbar at the top and bottom of the screen really annoy me- especially since I switched to a very minimalistic UI, they stand out a lot more. I do use auto-hide on the taskbar but even with that enabled there is still a bar showing on the bottom that is a few pixels tall.

Does anyone know of a way to either hide the windows title bar and the task bar, or have wow run in fullscreen mode but allow other windows to show on top of it and be able to switch to them as quickly as you can in windowed mode?

I don't even know what to type into google to research this. Best I can do is manually change the vertical position and stretch of the display on my actual monitor to hide them, but I obviously have to change it back later. I'm hoping there is a better solution. I suspect I can achieve this by changing the actual windows theme but I would like to avoid that if possible. I like the classic windows theme just fine.

03/19/08, 6:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Howard Roark Banned Peruividia Undead Priest <Catalyst> Blackrock	playing in windowed mode... I just got a beautiful and gigantic new monitor and I want to take full advantage of letting WoW look the best it can, and I like the way WoW looks in full screen mode, but I always prefer playing in windowed mode because I constantly alt tab to a web browser (and I do mean constantly, sometimes between every global cooldown) or another program. I just play fully maxamized in windowed mode. I guess I'm just a little bit OCD but the title bar and the taskbar at the top and bottom of the screen really annoy me- especially since I switched to a very minimalistic UI, they stand out a lot more. I do use auto-hide on the taskbar but even with that enabled there is still a bar showing on the bottom that is a few pixels tall. Does anyone know of a way to either hide the windows title bar and the task bar, or have wow run in fullscreen mode but allow other windows to show on top of it and be able to switch to them as quickly as you can in windowed mode? I don't even know what to type into google to research this. Best I can do is manually change the vertical position and stretch of the display on my actual monitor to hide them, but I obviously have to change it back later. I'm hoping there is a better solution. I suspect I can achieve this by changing the actual windows theme but I would like to avoid that if possible. I like the classic windows theme just fine.