{"id":182,"date":"2005-01-18T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2005\/01\/18\/remove-some-icons-from-your-desktop\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:39:53","slug":"remove-some-icons-from-your-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/remove-some-icons-from-your-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove some Icons from your Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning my desktop under Windows 2K, I wanted to get rid of a few useless icons : &quot;My Documents&quot;, and &quot;Internet Explorer&quot; icons (the other unwanted ones being taken care of by the excellent Tweak-UI). Two little reg hacks.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My Documents Icon<\/strong><br \/>\nAdd a new REG_DWORD data, named <strong>Attributes<\/strong> in the following key :<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-1\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"code\">\n\t\t<ol class=\"code\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\ Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion \\Explorer\\CLSID\\ {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\\ShellFolder.<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Give it value <strong>0xf0400174<\/strong> to display the icon, or value <strong>0xf0500174<\/strong> to hide it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsiinc.com\/SUBL\/tip5700\/rh5775.htm\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet Explorer Icon<\/strong><br \/>\nAdd a new REG_DWORD data, named <strong>NoInternetIcon<\/strong> in the following key :<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-2\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"code\">\n\t\t<ol class=\"code\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft \\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\ Policies\\Explorer<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Give it value <strong>1<\/strong> to hide the icon, or value <strong>0<\/strong> to display it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesktophelp.com\/tips\/ie11.htm\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning my desktop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,76,4],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-code","tag-tips","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}