How to disable Task Pane Manager

Submitted by Sergey on August 16, 2008 - 21:55 UTC
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Either of below will disable Task Pane Manager launch on VFP startup:

  • Click on the Task Pane's Options, Select Task Pane Manager in the treeview and uncheck Open the Task Pane when Visual FoxPro starts
  • Go to Tools, Options, File Locations and clear Startup Program. Click on Set As Default to save changes.
  • In the RegEdit go to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0\Options key and blank out Data for Value Name _STARTUP.
  • Add _STARTUP= to a config.fpw. Only VFP instance that uses this config.fpw will be affected.

Comments

Submitted by Talbess on December 26, 2009 - 06:35 UTC
So simple, so hard to find - thanks

Submitted by boxter on December 31, 2009 - 00:08 UTC
me two...thanks

Submitted by dripcode on December 10, 2012 - 22:56 UTC
This is a very old post, but I hadn't open VFP for years and wanted to do a few things today. I noticed the the Task Pane Manager had the close button, but when I clicked it turn to a disabled but didn't close (this only happens if you try to close the task manager pane before the command window loads). I stumbled across this post and while changing the registry setting might work, it's never a good idea to modify the registry.

Instead you can remove thie task pane manager from showing up within VFP itself via: Tools > Options > File Locations (tab) > Startup Program (scroll down). Highlight Startup Program and click the modify button. Remove "..\microsoft visual foxpro 9\taskpane.app", click "OK", then click the "Set As Default" button. If you don't click "Set As Default" the Task Pane Manager will run again the next time you fire up VFP.

You can create a .prg file to run the taskpane.app and add other commands to allow you full control as to what happens when you fire up VFP.

I hope this helps.

Submitted by Marcos on April 27, 2015 - 21:24 UTC
Only modify regedit option works for me.
Thanks!

Submitted by Naeem on June 23, 2015 - 11:42 UTC
I also just Blanked out the Value for _STARTUP (using REGEDIT as advised)

Thanks a lot.

Submitted by tnasca on May 17, 2016 - 13:46 UTC
Still the correct answer... Thanks.

Submitted by MAM on August 18, 2016 - 17:14 UTC
Tanks for the tip, the task pane was driving me crazy, it tooks too much to star, now it´s gone, the second option works fine for me