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re: Solution to 'Get Rid of the My Computer Icon' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 1:34 am Posted by John Doe (9 messages posted) Cripes. This works well. I had tried to remove the dreaded "my computer" icon (which I had renamed to "her computer," and then Hal, when the bitch left me), many many times. In fact I've probably spent a couple of hours on this, and all that I was left with was a white square instead of the stupid picture of a computer. Now I did what you said and selected all the icons using my mouse to marquee them, and moved them all down, and presto, the dreaded my computer, her computer, hal icon is gone. Maybe we should rename it to Bill's computer. Anyway, tomorrow morning when I boot up, I'll lasso all my normal icons, move them up a couple of inches, place Bill's computer icon at the bottom of screen, lassoo all the others again and move them down a couple of inches, then I won't have to see the bloody thing all day. Thanks for all the extra work Bill. Hope you're sleeping well. John Doe On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 9:19 am, Ben Connected wrote: > >Here's a better solution, which works fine on Windows2000 etc., but you have to do >it each time you boot. > >Arrange your desktop icons into two groups. Put all the icons you want to hide near >the bottom of the screen. Put all the icons you want to keep near the top of the >screen. > >Now select all the icons on your desktop, and grab the top group, and move everything >down, so that the bottom group disappears well below the bottom edge of your screen. > >Now they are hidden from view on the desktop but still visible in Windows Explorer >file menus. > >Now wave your middle finger toward Redmond. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution to 'Get Rid of the My Computer Icon' Friday, September 12, 2003 at 3:16 pm Posted by John Doe (9 messages posted) Actually, I have and Addendum to this (see below). On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 1:34 am, john doe wrote: >Cripes. This works well. I had tried to remove the dreaded "my computer" icon (which >I had renamed to "her computer," and then Hal, when the bitch left me), many many >times. In fact I've probably spent a couple of hours on this, and all that I was >left with was a white square instead of the stupid picture of a computer. Now I >did what you said and selected all the icons using my mouse to marquee them, and >moved them all down, and presto, the dreaded my computer, her computer, hal icon >is gone. Maybe we should rename it to Bill's computer. Anyway, tomorrow morning >when I boot up, I'll lasso all my normal icons, move them up a couple of inches, >place Bill's computer icon at the bottom of screen, lassoo all the others again and >move them down a couple of inches, then I won't have to see the bloody thing all >day. Thanks for all the extra work Bill. Hope you're sleeping well. > >John Doe > > Each day I lasso all the icons and move them up, then place the my computer icon near bottom of screen, lasso all icons and move them all down, whereupon the my computer icon dissapears below the bottom of the screen. However, as the previous poster mentioned, you need to do this each day. I discovered this morning that if you move all the icons down so that the my computer icon is just showing a sliver of itself (a few pixels of the top), that it will stay in that position each time you boot up. Next year the UN is convening to see if an easier solution to the my computer icon can be thrashed out, and Bush is even considering sanctions against Bill until he makes that icon more user friendly. Imagine how many man hours have been wasted on this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution to 'Get Rid of the My Computer Icon' Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 2:17 pm Posted by Harrry Hill (12 messages posted) Jeez...make it easy-Just use Tweak. Tres simple. On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 9:19 am, Ben Connected wrote: > >Here's a better solution, which works fine on Windows2000 etc., but you have to do >it each time you boot. > >Arrange your desktop icons into two groups. Put all the icons you want to hide near >the bottom of the screen. Put all the icons you want to keep near the top of the >screen. > >Now select all the icons on your desktop, and grab the top group, and move everything >down, so that the bottom group disappears well below the bottom edge of your screen. > >Now they are hidden from view on the desktop but still visible in Windows Explorer >file menus. > >Now wave your middle finger toward Redmond. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution to 'Get Rid of the My Computer Icon' Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 6:34 am Posted by Mark Beardsell (1 messages posted) Create a registry file and use the extension .reg for example myfile.reg copy the text below into. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum] "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000001 "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001 Save the file and then double click it, you will then be asked if you want to add it to the registry, reply with yes and click ok on the message that follows, if you now right click your desktop and choose refresh the “my computer” and “recycle bin” icons will disapaear, to get them back change the dword:00000001 to dword:00000000 on each entry. On Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 2:17 pm, Harrry Hill wrote: > >Jeez...make it easy-Just use Tweak. Tres simple. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Solution to 'Get Rid of the My Computer Icon' Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 8:22 am Posted by Kovács Endre János (1 messages posted) This is NOT a good idea for the following reason: "My Computer" will be excluded from ALL enumerations including the ones in File Open/Save dialogs. Many applications that depend on the drives in your system being child objects of the Desktop will be rendered unusable since you will not be able to browse your local drives. Others will simply crash, as is the case with WinRAR. On Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 6:34 am, Mark Beardsell wrote: >Create a registry file and use the extension .reg for example myfile.reg copy the >text below into. > ... 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