How to show desktop thru perl

Selvakumar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,
I want to minimize all screen and show my desktop Windows OS thru perl. how can i do that? Also if i need to show my current EXE Screen only what i need to do?

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Re: How to show desktop thru perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 11, 2010 at 05:29 UTC
Minimizing everything can be done simply enough using `use Win32::OLE; Win32::OLE->new('Shell.Application')->MinimizeAll();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to show desktop thru perl by afoken (Chancellor) on May 11, 2010 at 05:04 UTC
Find the right Windows API function(s) and call it/them from perl, e.g. using Win32::API. Try to find out which API function(s) are called when you press Win-M on the keyboard. Alternative way: Call the API function to enumerate all windows (FindWindow?), and send each Window a WM_MINIMIZE (?) message using SendMessage() or PostMessage(). Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re: How to show desktop thru perl by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 11, 2010 at 05:12 UTC
Your question isn't very clear. You could use Win32::HideConsole to hide the screen. Here's the example from the docs.	[reply]