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 # SilenTeams
-Finally, a way to disable taskbar flashing
+<div align="center">
+    <img src="https://github.com/Hypfer/SilenTeams/blob/master/img/header.png" width="704" alt="SilenTeams">
+    <p align="center"><h2>Finally, a way to disable taskbar flashing</h2></p>
+</div>
+
+# Preamble
+
+So as many of us are painfully aware of, there is _no_ way of disabling taskbar flashing for Microsoft Teams.
+
+Furthermore, it completely ignores the `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control panel\Desktop\ForegroundFlashCount` registry key by
+just calling `FlashWindowEx` multiple times in a row. Why they do that is beyond me.
+
+This is of course completely unacceptable and insanely harmful to the productivity of a workforce which - caused by
+a **pandemic** - is using Teams more than ever.
+
+Even though that it's now December of 2020 with a [Feedback Thread](https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18871387-allow-us-to-turn-of-flashing-taskbar-notifications)
+being open since April 2017, nothing about this situation changed.
+
+Therefore, the nuclear option was chosen.
+
+# Description
+
+This repository's release section contains a .dll file, which you can simply throw into your MS Teams installation folder
+to forcefully stop it from annoying you any further.
+
+You are of course encouraged to build it yourself instead of just downloading a binary file.
+After all, this DLL could in theory inject anything into your Teams Process.
+
+# Installation
+1. Place the fake `dbghelp.dll` in `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\current` and also copy `C:\Windows\System32\dbghelp.dll`
+to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\current\dbghelp_orig.dll`.
+
+2. Start Teams
+
+3. Enjoy not being disturbed by never-ending taskbar flashing.
+
+
+Note that this may not survive a Teams update. I haven't tested that yet.
+In that case, simply repeat step 1 and be happy again. :)
+
+# How it works
+
+This project is a DLL which pretends to be another DLL which is used by MS Teams and proxys all calls to the original one.
+
+This allows us to inject our own code into Teams which simply overwrites first byte of the `FlashWindowEx` function of
+the `user32.dll` in memory with a `0xC3` which is the x86 opcode for `RETN` or something like that.
+
+So basically this no-ops `FlashWindowEx` without any additional functions, trampolines etc, because when building this,
+it was discovered that those broke for reasons that are beyond my understanding of computers.
+
+# Misc
+
+Be advised that I usually use JavaScript to solve all my problems. This solution might be very bad, cause crashes and whatnot.
+Still, it solves a problem I had, and I'm happy to share it with you.
+
+Feel free to open a PR to enhance it :)
+
+# Sources/Inspiration
+
+[Mutegram](https://github.com/mxs42/mutegram) by [mxs42](https://github.com/mxs42)
+[Windows Privilege Escalation - DLL Proxying](https://itm4n.github.io/dll-proxying/) by [itm4n](https://github.com/itm4n)
+[NoFlashWindow](https://github.com/mrexodia/NoFlashWindow) by [mrexodia](https://github.com/mrexodia)
+
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings)
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