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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Friday, November 9, 2001 at 11:21 pm
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Posted by Bigalow (4 messages posted)


Sorry,Curt-my short term memory is not great.


On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 11:19 pm, Bigalow wrote:
>Ta for your comprehensive reply Carl.I was finally able to get it working.The best
>way I found is to enable active desktop and then hide icons becomes an option under
>customize when you right click on the desktop. Cheers mate
>
>


>On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 9:37 pm, Curt R wrote:
>

You can use the Group Policy MMC to remove some desktop icons and tweak a few
>settings to increase security. See the following image...note: to open the GP MMC,
>go to your Start Menu >> Run >> type "gpedit.msc" (no quotes) >> hit Enter.

Then
>go to the location you see in the left hand side of the graphic. In fact, if you're
>looking to tweak your system, check the whole thing out, there are lots of little
>security tweak in there



>
>


>On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 7:41 pm, Bigalow wrote:
>I have a question about Hide
>
>all Icons on the Desktop
:


>
>I have win2k pro and I've tried hiding all my desktop icons as per the instructions
>
>but it didn't work.Can it be done with 2kpro and if so I'd love to know how. Cheers


Written in response to:
re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Bigalow: Friday, November 9, 2001 at 11:19 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Curt R: Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 8:45 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Bigalow: Fri, Nov 9, 2001, 7:41 pm)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (KDE: Fri, Nov 9, 2001, 8:27 pm)
*re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Sshorty: Wed, May 8, 2002, 11:37 am)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Curt R: Fri, Nov 9, 2001, 9:37 pm)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Bigalow: Fri, Nov 9, 2001, 11:19 pm)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Bigalow: Fri, Nov 9, 2001, 11:21 pm)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Curt R: Sat, Nov 10, 2001, 8:45 am)
*re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (kid-quick: Tue, Jun 25, 2002, 6:35 pm)
-re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (Dan: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 1:26 pm)
*re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (julio11386: Tue, Nov 29, 2005, 5:16 pm)
*re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop' (karen: Wed, Apr 5, 2006, 10:41 am)
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