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re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items'
Monday, October 29, 2001 at 5:51 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dale
(700 messages posted)
There is no easy way to remove the My Computer icon from the desktop. It is possible,
however, to restrict it so that no action is performed when someone attempts to double-click
this icon. Here is the procedure:
Run Registry Editor (RegEdit.exe). Please be very careful when using this tool, because
if you do something wrong with it, you may end up reinstalling Windows from scratch!
Find the following key in the Registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
CLSID
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
shell
Create a new subkey under this key and rename it to open. (To create the subkey:
right-click on shell, select New - Key from the shortcut menu, and then enter open
as the name of the new key.) Now create another subkey, command, under the key open.
The resulting structure of these keys should look like the following:
shell
open
command
Now select the command subkey you've just created and open the Default value of this
key (by double-clicking (Default) in the right pane of the Registry Editor window)
and specify the following command as its Value data:
Explorer.exe /root
Now, whenever the user attempts to open the My Computer item on the Desktop, it will
not open.
Not sure why you want it gone but if it was me I would grab a program like 'folder
gaurd' to allow only you access to it.
On Monday, October 29, 2001 at 5:17 pm, Mike Greening wrote:
>Hi, I'm trying to remove the My Computer icon using the "half-assed" solution of
>changing it to a blank icon and then entering a single space for the name. I am
>using the recommended registry edit procedure on the following page:
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>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-016
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>I end up with the Windows default icon as the My Computer icon, and "blank.ico,0",
>my registry entry, as the name for the icon. I have a blank icon on my hard drive
>named blank.ico. What am I doing wrong?
>
>
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