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This really works!!! Thanks for the great tip...having all those icons in the clock tray can get really annoying! However, I noticed in Windows Me, the check box is found near the bottom of the dialog box under the Sounds tab, not the Audio tab. Pretty easy to find :-)

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You can remove all of the icons on your desktop too with the NoDesktop registry entry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.

If the Policies or Explorer keys are missing, create them by right clicking on the 
previous key, [Current version] select New, and Key, and give the new keys their 
names, [Policies & Explorer]

Click on the Explorer key to view its values in the right pane. If there is not a 
value named NoNetHood in the right pane, create it by right-clicking on the Explorer 
key, selecting New, and DWORD Value.

In the right pane, NoNetHood should have a value data of 0x00000001 (0) next to it.

Double-click on NoNetHood and a dialogue box will appear allowing you to edit the 
DWORD value. In the Value Data space should be a single zero. Change it to a 1 and 
click on OK. Now the data figure beside NoNetHood should be 0x00000001 (1).
 
Close the Registry, and reboot your computer.

You can do the same for NoDesktop, and put the three last icons from the desktop 
onto the quick-start bar simply by dragging them there.

Note: This is what this system has in the key Explorer.

CDRAutoRun                        00 00 00 00                  Binary
LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo    0x00000001 (1)            Dword
NoDesktop                          0x00000001 (1)            Dword
NoDriveTypeAutoRun           95 00 00 00                   Binary
NoRecentDocsHistory          01 00 00 00                   Binary
NoRecentDocsMenu             01 00 00 00                   Binary
NoStartBanner                     0x00000001 (1)            Dword
NoNetHood                         0x00000001 (1)             Dword

MY OWN DESKTOP NO ICONS

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NoEncrypt
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In the Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist

HUNDREDS of encrypted entries can be found.

In these two sub-keys:

{5E6AB780-7743-11CF-A12B-00AA004AE837}\Count ... and
{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count

Add two KEYS with the Word (Entry) "NoEncrypt = Dword = 00000001"

 ... and put the Dword entry ... in ... BOTH

{5E6AB780-7743-11CF-A12B-00AA004AE837}\Count ... and
{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count
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MAC

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Incidentally, these use the highly advanced (not) ROT-13 encryption method (i.e. rotating the letters of the alphabet by 13). http://www.rot13.com/index.php to decrypt/encrypt the entries. Woo yay Microsoft!


On Thursday, July 3, 2003 at 10:31 pm, Mac wrote:
>NoEncrypt
>======
>
>In the Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist
>
>HUNDREDS of encrypted entries can be found.

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Free MS Update CD

Is that in the tray or on a tray?
Mac

Reference/Bootdisks

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