Possible to disable Windows Start Menu while AIR app is running?

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I think I know the answer to this (no) but I thought I would ask:

Is it possible to disable the Windows Start Menu while an AIR app is running?

The legacy app I am revising needs to run in a screen-sized "window" mode in order to have access to the native menu system. There are some buttons that are close to the bottom edge of the screen and it is very easy to trigger the Start Menu sliding on.

I know I could, maybe should redo the menus to use Flex components and run fullscreen (where the Start menu is apparently disabled) but the budget is tight.

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I think this is possible only using an external soft.

For that we need :

For that, I wrote this code which do the work very fine.

At app start I hide Windows Start button and when exiting the app, I show it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
                       xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
                       xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" creationComplete="init(event)">

    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[

            import mx.events.FlexEvent

            private const exe_name:String = 'StartKiller.exe'
            private var native_process_startup_info:NativeProcessStartupInfo
            private var exe_file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(exe_name) 
            private var process:NativeProcess
            private var process_args:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>()            

            protected function init(event:FlexEvent):void
            {
                // run our exe to hide start button
                native_process_startup_info = new NativeProcessStartupInfo()
                native_process_startup_info.executable = exe_file

                process = new NativeProcess()
                process.start(native_process_startup_info)

                NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.EXITING, function(e:Event):void{

                    // exit our exe and show start button
                    native_process_startup_info = new NativeProcessStartupInfo()
                    native_process_startup_info.executable = exe_file

                    process_args = new Vector.<String>()
                    process_args.push('exit')       

                    native_process_startup_info.arguments = process_args

                    process = new NativeProcess()
                    process.start(native_process_startup_info)

                })
            }

        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
</s:WindowedApplication>

I created also an install if you want to test it before changing your code, you can download it here.

I hope all that can help you.