Desktop Icons without Text

[ZileXa]

OK I understand how this works now, it creates a (kind of) Shell Object, and I can add shell objects to the dock :)

The downside of this method is that it is not so easy to modify a menu...

I know how to edit the Windows Registry... but if someone else on the PC wants to modify the menu's to her taste... well she'll give up quickly :rolleyes:

hmm... I am not a programmer, but I am thinking of an easy way, a GUI that uses this solution..

don't have a clue yet :cool:

[Herby]

Try SCCU (Shorcut Clean Up) -> more info & link at the first post. :)

[wiredbits]

Hi,.. I'm back! :D

Thanks,.. I'll add it to the first post. :)

Like wiredbits said: remove /e, :yes:

Thanks! :happy:

Welcome to Neowin!

When you use variables like %UserProfile% %ProgramFiles% and %WinDir%, you'll have to use an Expandable String Value (see Tutorial & attached zip).

You can edit the value with regedit.

cmd.exe /c cd "%WinDir%\Temp\" && del *.* /f /q && (for /d %%a in (*) do rd "%%a" /q /s) && cd "%WinDir%\Prefetch\" && del *.* /f /q && Start "%Userprofile%\My Documents\Cleanrecent.bat"

The for - do part removes the sub directories. :)

Welcome back :D

[Rejinderi]

hi.. anyone can give me an example with just a plane textless shortcut?

[Rejinderi]

sorry for double post.. i just figured how to do it.. but.. is there anyway to have someone make a app to convert the shortcut target?.. in hex editors u still have to remove the , .. and such.. javascript:ShowHide('qr_open','qr_closed');

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[Herby]

Welcome back :D

Thanks! :)

sorry for double post.. i just figured how to do it.. but.. is there anyway to have someone make a app to convert the shortcut target?.. in hex editors u still have to remove the , .. and such...

I have no idea what you are talking about. :huh:

The expandable string values? :unsure:

[Kylde001]

Hi, I understand all 48 pages (whew), BUT .... there is STILL a blank space under each and every icon I create, equal to the space taken up by a line of text ? If I narrow the vertical spacing of icons using display properties. icons WITH text in various sub-folders look awful, squashed together? Look at the 2nd from top and 2nd from bottom icons here:

Regards

Kylde

Edited March 10, 2006 by Kylde001

[Herby]

Hi Kylde, welcome to Neowin! :)

About the blank space: there's nothing I can do about that, windows automatically reserves that space.

About the squashed icons: is the icon size still unchanged?

[Rejinderi]

i mean is there a easiler way to like convert a path lets say.. "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" into hex form together with , to become 00,20,00,2f,00,70,00,6c,00,61,00,79,00,7(hexed form with , and such)

[Herby]

Ah,.. those hex values are expandable string values.

I use these values when I'm using variables like %ProgramFiles% due to language compatibility.

If you use regular paths like "C:\Program Files\" you can use regular string values:

@="C:\\Program Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe"

Redllar is working on a reg file editor: RegPad, but it can't edit default expandable string values yet.

I'm a beta tester and I'll post it here when the expandable string value editing part works. :)

[Rejinderi]

ooo ty =D

[elParkeur]

First of all, great tutorial. It's so nice to have enhanced desktop icons.

I tried a lot to add one of these icons the the left pane of the xp start menu. But the only thing that worked was creating a folder with the clsid and the create a shortcut in start menu. But that way it's not possible to get rid of the standard folder context menu.

For the outlook 2003 icon I did the following. I just added the shell-key of herby's icon to the clsid of the mail-programm, which is {2559a1f5-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}. Now I have the enhanced context menu there. Perhaps anyone does care about that.

Unfortunately, I can only enhance the Internet and Mail icon. So if anyone has an idea how to put the icons into the start menu, please let us know.

[Herby]

First of all, great tutorial. It's so nice to have enhanced desktop icons.

I tried a lot to add one of these icons the the left pane of the xp start menu. But the only thing that worked was creating a folder with the clsid and the create a shortcut in start menu. But that way it's not possible to get rid of the standard folder context menu.

For the outlook 2003 icon I did the following. I just added the shell-key of herby's icon to the clsid of the mail-programm, which is {2559a1f5-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}. Now I have the enhanced context menu there. Perhaps anyone does care about that.

Unfortunately, I can only enhance the Internet and Mail icon. So if anyone has an idea how to put the icons into the start menu, please let us know.

Hi elParkeur, welcome to Neowin! :)

With SCCU (link @ Post #1) you can create shortcuts, but they also have the standard context menu items.

It's possible to add context menu items to the icons on the right side:

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+ You can add one custom icon, in this example (attached zip) I've added the Office 2003 icon (see ReadMe for more info).

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Office_2003.zip

[elParkeur]

Thanks for the quick reply. One Icon is better than none. I added the Office icon, too. Now I can delete the crappy shortcut from quicklaunch.

[Herby]

Here's another one:

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The "Add Shutdown" reg file adds an Shutdown icon with an enhanced context menu (right click menu).

This icon uses NirCmd to execute the commands, NirCmd is a great little free Command Line Tool

(it does'nt run in the background) and it's included in the zip file.Install:b> merge "Add Shutdown.reg" and copy NirCmd.* to your System32 directory.

If you want to use the Undock PC command (laptop), edit "Add Shutdown.reg" and remove the ; character

before the last 4 lines, save and merge it & copy "Undock PC.vbs" to your System32 directory.

Merge "Remove Default Buttons.reg" if you want to remove the default Shutdown, Logoff and Undock PC

buttons from the Start Menu ("Restore Default Buttons.reg" restores them).

Restart your computer to apply the changes.Uninstall:b> merge "Remove Shutdown.reg" and remove NirCmd.* & "Undock PC.vbs" from your System32 directory.

Merge "Restore Default Buttons.reg" to restore the default Shutdown, Logoff and Undock PC buttons.

Restart your computer to apply the changes.

Shutdown.zip

[maxresist]

HI...

Thanks..

I also have RKLauncher and I have found that you can just simply drag and drop those icons into RKLauncher just like you can with any other desktop icon and have the same context menu features as the icons on the desktop. That has been my experience at least.

[elParkeur]

I could not stop trying to add Herby's icons to the left pane of the XP start menu. His tip with the unused icon on the right side offered me a new possibility.

The internet and eMail icons in the start menu belong to a group of icons with CLSIDs {2559a1fX-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} (X=0...7)

So I copied one of these keys and changed the X to 8. Then I added the shell key of one of Herby's icons under that key. The result was looking like that:

Herby's icon with changed CLSID

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]
"InfoTip"="Create and annotate documents, presentations, e-mail messages, and spreadsheets with Office 2003."
"NeverShowExt"=""
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon]
@="%ProgramFiles%\\Gemeinsame Dateien\\Microsoft Shared\\Office11\\MSOicons.exe,6"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Access]
@="&Access 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Access\Command]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,\
  20,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,5c,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,31,00,31,00,5c,00,4d,00,53,00,41,00,63,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,73,00,\
  2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Excel]
@="&Excel 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Excel\Command]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,\
  20,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,5c,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,31,00,31,00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,63,00,65,00,6c,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
  65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Open]
@="Office 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Open\Command]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,\
  20,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,5c,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,31,00,31,00,5c,00,4f,00,53,00,41,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,\
  2d,00,6e,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\PowerPnt]
@="&PowerPoint 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\PowerPnt\Command]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,\
  20,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,5c,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,31,00,31,00,5c,00,50,00,6f,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,50,00,6e,00,74,00,\
  2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Word]
@="&Word 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Shell\Word\Command]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,\
  20,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,5c,00,4f,00,66,00,66,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,31,00,31,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,57,00,6f,00,72,00,64,00,2e,00,\
  65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2f,00,71,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:00,00,00,00

Values added to let the icon appear in start menu.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
  64,00,6f,00,63,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance]
"CLSID"="{3f454f0e-42ae-4d7c-8ea3-328250d6e272}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
"CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}"
"method"="ShellExecute"
"Command"=""
"Param1"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\MayChangeDefaultMenu]
@=""

The I took a look at the start menu construction located at [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage]. The interesting value is "Favorites". I don't know what's "FavoritesResolve" for. I changed that value too but it seems that it also works without changing it.

Unfortunately, changing the start menu requires manual editing. For better understanding, I will show you my value:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage]
"Favorites"=hex:00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,f5,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,00,c0,\
  4f,60,b9,f0,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,f4,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,\
  00,c0,4f,60,b9,f0,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,f8,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,\
  bd,af,00,c0,4f,60,b9,f0,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,00,00,00,00,60,50,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,ff

f5,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,00,c0,\

4f,60,b9,f0

-> This is the internet icon.

f4,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,\

00,c0,4f,60,b9,f0

-> This is the eMail icon.

f8,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,\

bd,af,00,c0,4f,60,b9,f0

-> This is the new Office 2003 icon I added.

Every icon is followed by a sequence of 00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80

As you can see, the first 4 bytes of the CLSID are swapped.

So, if you want to add a new icon to the start menu, you have to search for the last 1f,80. The add the CLSID (swap the first 4 bytes) and at least the 00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80 sequence.

Then you have to drag any icon you want to the left pane of the start menu to let it refresh. Tataaa ... your new icon appears.

:cool:

Edited March 24, 2006 by elParkeur

[Herby]

Nice tweak! :D

Great work! (Y)

Edited March 24, 2006 by Herby

[Herby]

I found a slightly easier way:

Download ACM_Dock.zip & merge the regs from the Icons that you want to use.

These reg files will add the Icons to "Entire Network" instead of to the Desktop.

The only thing that I changed in the reg files was the name (changed @="" to @="Name of Icon").

Now refresh the Entire Network folder and drag the files into the Start Menu.

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[gary4gar]

great work !

[evilmunky]

can some one out there make a Illustrator CS icon?

if its been done point me to it :D

[tianh]

umm okay.. i really dont know how to do this any help would be a preciated.. sorry for the trouble kinda noob at this stuff

[Herby]

can some one out there make a Illustrator CS icon?

if its been done point me to it :D

I've added it to my todo list but I'm pretty busy atm, you can try to create it with SCCU if you want (link at Post #1).

umm okay.. i really dont know how to do this any help would be a preciated.. sorry for the trouble kinda noob at this stuff

Check your Inbox (PM). :)

My new webpage: herby.virtualplastic.net

You can view and download all my tweaks there. :)

[wiredbits]

Hi

Site looks good Herby. :D

[gahbmwM5]

Excellent Herby,

Thanks so much for your taking the time as I now have two set of reg files that I can utilize with the particular VS's that I feel like applying:

Add My Documents.reg (with Explorer Pane view)

Add My Documents-e.reg (without Explorer Pane view)

The Enhanced Rt Click Menus that you added (according to my preference) work perfectly...:)

Cheers...