import ctypes def work_area(): class RECT(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [('left',ctypes.c_ulong), ('top',ctypes.c_ulong), ('right',ctypes.c_ulong), ('bottom',ctypes.c_ulong)] r = RECT() ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(win32con.SPI_GETWORKAREA, 0, ctypes.byref(r), 0) return map(int, (r.left, r.top, r.right, r.bottom)) print work_area()