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Hide Desktop Items - how to

cadilac
Yo I Saw a guy hide all his desktop items but leaving like rycycle bin only or ne other icon without removing any thing from his desktop just hiding i was wondering if neone know how to do this

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I dont know about older versions, but windows xp can do that. Usually when you buy a new pc, now-a-days, the desktop only has only a few things on it, and you can tell windows to have items not shown, to show on desktop if you want it to.

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QUOTE(cadilac @ Jul 12 2005, 08:37 AM)
Yo I Saw a guy hide all his desktop items but leaving like rycycle bin only or ne other  icon without removing any thing from his desktop just hiding i was wondering if neone know how to do this

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Old version of windows cant do that tricks unless you delete the icon from the desktop.

Windows xp and later version of windows can hide any icon in your desktop. Just right your start menu and go to properties and explore it. you will learn many tricks from there, hide icons, hide inactive icons and specify which icon appear in your desktop....

 

 

 


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Kubi
Hiding icons are easy, it's not really a trick either.

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Hide Desktop Icons.

All it does it make your folders/files/icons invisible. All you gatta do is;

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Show Desktop Icons(or Hide again) to undo that.

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hulunes
QUOTE(KuBi @ Jul 12 2005, 12:36 PM)
Hiding icons are easy, it's not really a trick either.

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Hide Desktop Icons.

All it does it make your folders/files/icons invisible. All you gatta do is;

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Show Desktop Icons(or Hide again) to undo that.
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well,what you said above is really a wise way to come true hiding icon biggrin.gif .certainly if you want to hide the whole desktop,what i mean is that not only to hide icon but also the start menu and task bar,showing only a wallpaper.you kill task explorer.exe through taskmgmt(you can use this kind of status before your leave and keep from other's operation on your pc). tongue.gif

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cse-icons
hi,

It can be done in XP as mentioned above. For other versions of windows, generally there are tweaking freeware/shareware available like TweakXP for XP.

Or else if you are comfortable with changing the registry.. there are tweaks available over the internet (just use google) to do quite a few interesting things. before you make the change make sure you backup that folder and its entries using export. To revert back just double click the backup file(.reg) and the entries would be back in...
Meddle with registry at ur own risk.

There is a tweak which prevents the logged in users from shutting down the system. i.e., when he presses the shut down button.. it shows a message that 'you do not have sufficient privileges, please contact your administrator'. I had fun with this tweak long time back.. would post it here if I remember it / find it....

Cheers.

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cadilac
QUOTE(KuBi @ Jul 11 2005, 11:36 PM)
Hiding icons are easy, it's not really a trick either.

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Hide Desktop Icons.

All it does it make your folders/files/icons invisible. All you gatta do is;

Right click your desktop > Arrange Icons By > Show Desktop Icons(or Hide again) to undo that.
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i know that but a guy does the same process that u do on xp but leaves one icon standing he usualy leaves the game that he's gonna play, i was asking him alot but he wouldn't tell me dry.gif

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rvalkass
I can't understand the point of doing this, but I do have a theory as to how you can do it:

Perhaps he just drags the icons off of the side of the screen, then when he wants them back he just orders them by soemthing and they all reappear. Magic!

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HotArt
I you whant to hide only some files then click on file with right botton, then click properties, then you can see windows ! In this windows u can see one option coled hide clicck on it! Then answer Yes! And it is done!

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iwuvcookies
There's another way is to right click on the icon or file and click on Properties. The attributes at the bottom has HIDDEN. Check it and click ok. the file should be hidden.

To undo just go to any folder click tools and folder options, click on VIEW tab, and click on SHOW hidden files and folders.

Now you can see the file or folder just right click and properties and unclick the hidden.

as you can see its a hassle.

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