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re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 7:17 am Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) dimiterb2000 Magic Tweak and others like PowerPack Tweak will get them back in place. On Monday, December 26, 2005 at 11:59 pm, dimiterb2000 wrote: >I decided to hide all desktop icons and followed the instructions, but along with >the icons off went a valued personally constructed wallpaper which I want back. The >thing is, none of the tips to bring the previous situation back works/ deleting >the new value, and also from "More information"/. Please help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 7:56 am Posted by dimiterb2000 (9 messages posted) Thanks! Could you be a bit more specific? Are these downloads , I hear about them for the first time. On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 7:17 am, DEX wrote: >dimiterb2000 >Magic Tweak and others like PowerPack Tweak will get them back in place. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 9:13 am Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) MagicTweak is a special program designed to optimize and personalize Microsoft Windows. It provides one-stop, instant access to a variety of Windows settings that can be altered for a friendlier Windows environment. This unique software makes it easy to tweak hundreds of hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/Me/98, so there is no longer any need to dig through the registry looking for that specific setting (from Start Menu,Desktop,IE skin,System Icon to System Security) that just doesn't seem to be there. With the ability to customize almost any aspect of Windows, you can become a Windows expert almost instantly! It's not FREE but it works great. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=80 ----------------- Just one more of them below. http://www.tweaknow.com/ Many programs will do the same thing here's a good spot to find a list of them. http://www.majorgeeks.com/ Some are free to try(shareware) and some are free. Good Luck On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 7:56 am, dimiterb2000 wrote: >Thanks! Could you be a bit more specific? Are these downloads , I hear about them >for the first time. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 9:32 am Posted by dimiterb2000 (9 messages posted) Thanks most awfully indeed!!! I can't purchase software from where I live, so supplying the free possibilities was really great, and I do appreciate it. As it is evening already here, I will try tomorrow and let you know. The thing is, although the site is supposed to send me EMail notification of postings in the forum, it doesn't, and I checked purely by chance... On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 9:13 am, DEX wrote: >MagicTweak is a special program designed to optimize and personalize Microsoft Windows. >It provides one-stop, instant access to a variety of Windows settings that can be >altered for a friendlier Windows environment. >This unique software makes it easy to tweak hundreds of hidden settings in Windows >XP/2000/Me/98, so there is no longer any need to dig through the registry looking >for that specific setting (from Start Menu,Desktop,IE skin,System Icon to System >Security) that just doesn't seem to be there. >With the ability to customize almost any aspect of Windows, you can become a Windows >expert almost instantly! > >It's not FREE but it works great. > >http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=80 >----------------- >Just one more of them below. >http://www.tweaknow.com/ > > > >Many programs will do the same thing >here's a good spot to find a list of them. >http://www.majorgeeks.com/ >Some are free to try(shareware) and some are free. > >Good Luck > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:32 am Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) dimiterb2000 You're Welcome Check your email address for typing errors. Or use Hotmail.com email to get your feed back it's a free email address. In that way you can get your feed back from any PC in the world with a InterNet hookup to the www with 250mb of free storage. Have a good one mate. On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 9:32 am, dimiterb2000 wrote: >Thanks most awfully indeed!!! I can't purchase software from where I live, so supplying >the free possibilities was really great, and I do appreciate it. As it is evening >already here, I will try tomorrow and let you know. The thing is, although the site >is supposed to send me EMail notification of postings in the forum, it doesn't, and >I checked purely by chance... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:06 pm Posted by dimiterb2000 (9 messages posted) I have a Yahoo! account which serves me very well, and there are no typing errors... Anyway, this is a small problem, I will check Annoyances regularly, the problem is that I ran the free tweak you advised, and nothing happened...Even worse, I have noticed that the right click on the desktop doesn't function also, and I can't open a new file or folder! This is becoming very big trouble, perhaps a moderator could help, after all disaster struck after I followed Annoyances' advice by the book... Best regards! On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:32 am, DEX wrote: >dimiterb2000 >You're Welcome >Check your email address for typing errors. >Or use Hotmail.com email to get your feed back it's a free email address. >In that way you can get your feed back from any PC in the world with a InterNet >hookup to the www with 250mb of free storage. > >Have a good one mate. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:35 pm Posted by CS (2 messages posted) Had a bit of a time figuring how to post here, but I made it. Go to: Start > Run > type in "gpedit.msc" > OK. In the tree pane on the left, navigate to and select: "Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer". In the right pane, locate the line that says: 1. "Remove Windows Explorer default context menu" and double click on it. 2. Is the "Not configured" button chosen? If it is NOT chosen, choose it and click "OK". 3. Don't close the Group Policy editor yet, but check to see if your right click has been restored on the desktop. 4. If the "Not configured" button WAS chosen or the above did not work, try choosing "DISABLED" and click "OK". If the Group Policy editor does not work, it will require a reg hack, and I am not sure it is the same in Windows 2000 as it is on XP, so I will stop here. Good luck. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 12:54 am Posted by dimiterb2000 (9 messages posted) It was "Not configured" per se/ all of them are/, and "Disabled" also dodn't work. Disaster! On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:35 pm, CS wrote: >Had a bit of a time figuring how to post here, but I made it. > >Go to: >Start > Run > type in "gpedit.msc" > OK. >In the tree pane on the left, navigate to and select: >"Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows >Explorer". > >In the right pane, locate the line that says: >1. "Remove Windows Explorer default context menu" and double click on it. >2. Is the "Not configured" button chosen? If it is NOT chosen, choose it and click >"OK". >3. Don't close the Group Policy editor yet, but check to see if your right click >has been restored on the desktop. >4. If the "Not configured" button WAS chosen or the above did not work, try choosing >"DISABLED" and click "OK". > >If the Group Policy editor does not work, it will require a reg hack, and I am not >sure it is the same in Windows 2000 as it is on XP, so I will stop here. > >Good luck. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 8:29 am Posted by CS (2 messages posted) For the record. The content of the reg key sent to you is as follows and IS different from what BB advised at BBR and the reason I am posting the text of it here: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer] "NoViewContextMenu"=dword:00000000 After extracting the reg key from the .zip file, double-click on it to open it and click "Yes" when it asks if you want to merge the key into your registry. This should re-enable you to right click on your desktop. Please let us know if it worked. As for some of the other suggestions given in this thread, simplicity is the key to registry editing, not tweak programs that can confuse a user or do further damage to their machine which is apparently what happened when other advice was given. Regards, CS [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum