How to: Prevent Display of Smart Minimize Buttons in Application Windows

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In general, a top-level window should include a Smart Minimize button in the title bar.

To prevent the Smart Minimize button from appearing on title bar of windows

  • Do not use the WS_CAPTION style and add the WS_NONAVDONEBUTTON to the styles when calling the Windows CE CreateWindow function, as in the following example:

    hWnd = CreateWindow(szWindowClass, szTitle, 
    WS_VISIBLE | WS_NONAVDONEBUTTON, CW_USEDEFAULT, 
    CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, 
    NULL, hInstance, NULL);

See Also

How to: Create a Full-Screen Window

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