Remove some Icons from your Desktop

Cleaning my desktop under Windows 2K, I wanted to get rid of a few useless icons : "My Documents", and "Internet Explorer" icons (the other unwanted ones being taken care of by the excellent Tweak-UI). Two little reg hacks.

• My Documents Icon
  Add a new REG_DWORD data, named Attributes in the following key :
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  1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer\CLSID\ {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder.

  Give it value 0xf0400174 to display the icon, or value 0xf0500174 to hide it (source)

• Internet Explorer Icon
  Add a new REG_DWORD data, named NoInternetIcon in the following key :
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  1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer

  Give it value 1 to hide the icon, or value 0 to display it (source)