Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
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Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 4:15 am
Posted by chunkylover53
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Hide
all Icons on the Desktop:
I couple of months ago I did as the above article said and changed the NoDesktop
Value to '1' in the registry, now I want to restore my desktop to it's original condition
BUT I have also tried doing as the above article suggests and leavinig the field
empty, and I've tried changing it back to zero but no cigar.... OR DESKTOP!!! Any
help on this matter would be greatly appreciated
Yours
Dave
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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Posted by geek9pm
(1438 messages posted)
You should restore the registry from your backup. The article you read did not say
the process was reversible or harmless.
Geek9pm 
On Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 4:15 am, chunkylover53 wrote:
>I have a question about Hide
>all Icons on the Desktop:
>
>
>I couple of months ago I did as the above article said and changed the NoDesktop
>Value to '1' in the registry, now I want to restore my desktop to it's original
condition
>BUT I have also tried doing as the above article suggests and leavinig the field
>empty, and I've tried changing it back to zero but no cigar.... OR DESKTOP!!! Any
>help on this matter would be greatly appreciated
>
>Yours
>
>Dave
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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(11594 messages posted)
Try the obvious. Right click on Desktop, select Arrange Icons then check the "Show
Desktop Icons" box.
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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 4:24 am
Posted by asforoneday
(1 messages posted)
Yeah great idea! Except for the fact that you can't right click your desktop when
you have hidden it. Any other ideas?
On Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 7:08 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Try the obvious. Right click on Desktop, select Arrange Icons then check the "Show
>Desktop Icons" box.
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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(11594 messages posted)
Have you tried deleting the NoDesktop DWORD you created? You said you tried leaving
it empty and setting it to 0 but not that you deleted. It's not normally there so
that's what I would try next.
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re: Question about 'Hide all Icons on the Desktop'
Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(11594 messages posted)
A bit of searching turned up this, maybe it will get your desktop back.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1156264302
Reading through the entire thread, it sounds like setting the value to 0 should
make the desktop reappear but it doesn't always work.
You could always create a new userid and copy data from the old id to the new
one then delete the old one. See here for info:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
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