<p>Is there an api to bring the vista side bar to the front (Win+Space) programatically and to do the reverse (send it to the back ground).</p>

[{'answer_id': 71785, 'author': 'Cory', 'author_id': 11870, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11870', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Probably using SetWindowPos you can change it to be placed the top / bottom of the z-order or even as the top-most window. You would need to find the handle to the sidebar using FindWindow or an application like WinSpy.</p>\n\n<p>But after that something like.</p>\n\n<p>Sets the window on top, but not top most.</p>\n\n<pre><code>SetWindowPos(sidebarHandle, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NORESIZE);\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Sets the window at the bottom.</p>\n\n<pre><code>SetWindowPos(sidebarHandle, HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NORESIZE);\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This is my best guess on achieving what you asked, hopefully it helps.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71846, 'author': 'macbirdie', 'author_id': 5049, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5049', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You probably shouldn\'t do it at all, since such action may annoy the user when executed at the wrong time (95% of cases*), just like stealing focus with a "Yes/No" prompt.</p>\n\n<p>Unless your product\'s task is to toggle the sidebar of course. ;)</p>\n\n<p>There\'s no official API for that anyway.</p>\n\n<p>*Purely hypothetical figure</p>\n'}]
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