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Win11 custom taskbar control

Currently I need to display a textbox on the Windows 11 taskbar but sadly Deskbands are now deprecated, however I found a program called Performance Counter that does something like below

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now I want to know how this is done? This works for Windows 11 however from what I know is that there is no official API to implement a custom taskbar control

Solution

  • Summarize @Dai and @Simon Mourier 's comments.

    Desk bands are not supported as of Windows 7. The applications being working are to hack the taskbar such as https://github.com/zhongyang219/TrafficMonitor mentioned in the comments.

    You may send feedback to Microsoft with the Feedback Hub app for a reliable formal example.