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re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items'
Monday, October 29, 2001 at 7:51 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike Greening
(2 messages posted)
Thanks Dale for your prompt response, but I guess my goals were unclear. I only
wish to hide the My Computer icon from view (as opposed to removing it) by making
it into a blank icon, then changing the name of the icon to a single space. I have
used the method for hiding all icons on the desktop, but this restricts my ability
to have a background image. My goal is to have a "naked" desktop, free of visible
icons, with a backgroud wallpaper image. Is this possible?
On Monday, October 29, 2001 at 5:51 pm, Dale wrote:
>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
>
>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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