Desktop Icons without Text

[Fry.]

Wow, i've read through this to many times, and still makes not one bit of sence to me.

Can someone help me with this please?

[Herby]

Hi

Site looks good Herby. :D

Thanks! :happy:

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...

You're welcome! :)

Wow, i've read through this to many times, and still makes not one bit of sence to me.

Can someone help me with this please?

Sure,.. just PM me the questions or post them here.

I've tried to explain everything about the reg files in the Tutorial.

[Herby]

I found some Command Line Parameters for Windows Defender:

-Hide [hide Windows Defender window]

-UpdateAndQuickScan [does'nt work yet, it performs an update but the Quick Scan does'nt start]

-CheckForUpdates [Check for Updates]

-FullScan [Full System Scan]

-QuickScan [Quick Scan]

-ScanResults [opens the Scan Results window when the Windows Defender window is opened]

-Settings [opens the options window when the Windows Defender window is opened]

-ShowSWE [software Explorer]

Example: "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -Hide -CheckForUpdates

I've added the Icon to ACM.zip & ACM_Dock.zip (Post #1). :)

[Aztechya]

Hi Herby. First off let me say that I am very impressed and thankful for your time in figuring out how to do all this. I tried all day today (and the last few days) to get a textless link to the XP Search Companion. With context for Searching Files and Folders, Searching Computers and Search Internet. No luck. Is there any way you can help out? ie. instruction or a reg file? I have looked up entry points for Explorer and shell32 and shdocvw and such and also accessing clsid's directly and can't figure this stuff out just yet.

Thanks in advance,

Aztechya

PS:

Is there a way to also have an ie or firefox History Search as a context?

az

[mrbenn]

Herby, First of all, Thank You for such an informative guide, and for taking the time to help all the people who have asked :)

My question is this: Is it possible to setup a shortcut (for a dock) that uses Explorer with folderview to show particular folders? That doesnt seem very clear :) What i mean is, an Icon for explorer, with the arguments /n,/e,c:\ (for c: drive root) which also has the right click functionality of /n,/e,d:\downloads , d:/icons , e:/music etc etc, so that the user can edit the reg file to have their own particular folders?

Many thanks for any help you may be able to give :)

[Herby]

Hi Herby. First off let me say that I am very impressed and thankful for your time in figuring out how to do all this. I tried all day today (and the last few days) to get a textless link to the XP Search Companion. With context for Searching Files and Folders, Searching Computers and Search Internet. No luck. Is there any way you can help out? ie. instruction or a reg file? I have looked up entry points for Explorer and shell32 and shdocvw and such and also accessing clsid's directly and can't figure this stuff out just yet.

Thanks in advance,

Aztechya

PS:

Is there a way to also have an ie or firefox History Search as a context?

I've created some files that should do the trick. :)

Copy the vbs files to your UserProfile directory:

Start -> Run... -> %UserProfile% and paste the files there.

Use these commands to execute the vbs files:

WScript.exe FindFiles.vbs

WScript.exe FindComputer.vbs

I've created the executables with AutoHotkey -> http://www.autohotkey.com/

FirefoxHistory.exe opens Firefox and toggles the History pane.

IEHistory.exe opens Internet Explorer and toggles the History pane.

InternetSearch.exe opens Internet Explorer and toggles the Search pane.

Search.zip (552 KB)

Herby, First of all, Thank You for such an informative guide, and for taking the time to help all the people who have asked :)

My question is this: Is it possible to setup a shortcut (for a dock) that uses Explorer with folderview to show particular folders? That doesnt seem very clear :) What i mean is, an Icon for explorer, with the arguments /n,/e,c:\ (for c: drive root) which also has the right click functionality of /n,/e,d:\downloads , d:/icons , e:/music etc etc, so that the user can edit the reg file to have their own particular folders?

Many thanks for any help you may be able to give :)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}]
"InfoTip"="Folders"
"NeverShowExt"=""
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\DefaultIcon]
@="%WinDir%\\Explorer.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\01]
@="Explore C:\\"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\01\Command]
@="Explorer.exe /n,/e, C:\\"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\02]
@="D:\\Downloads"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\02\Command]
@="Explorer.exe /n,/e, D:\\Downloads\\"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\03]
@="D:\\Icons"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\03\Command]
@="Explorer.exe /n,/e, D:\\Icons\\"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\04]
@="E:\\Music"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\Shell\04\Command]
@="Explorer.exe /n,/e, E:\\Music\\"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NetworkNeighborhood\EntireNetwork\NameSpace\{00000000-5292-0000-0000-000000000002}]

Folders.zip

[benkirby]

Firstly, must thank you Herby soo much for this program!been looking everywhere for something like this!

Was wondering if you could make icons for:

Norton Internet Securtity 2005

Bearshare

Google Earth (does not seem to work)

ebay turbo lister

Tuneup utilities 2006 1 click maintenance

Thanks for any if you could do them!!!Would basically just like them to load or something!

Ben

[Herby]

Firstly, must thank you Herby soo much for this program!been looking everywhere for something like this!

Was wondering if you could make icons for:

Norton Internet Securtity 2005

Bearshare

Google Earth (does not seem to work)

ebay turbo lister

Tuneup utilities 2006 1 click maintenance

Thanks for any if you could do them!!!Would basically just like them to load or something!

Ben

Hi Ben, welcome to Neowin! :)

Sure,.. I'll add them to my todo list. *

Can you PM me the shortcuts (path to the executables) from NIS 2005, Bearshare and Ebay Turbo Lister?

* You can also try to create them with SCCU (see Post #1 for more info).

[Herby]

@ request: Added Office 2007 & Outlook 2007 -> all the old commandline parameters still work! :)

? Removed Office 12

I've added them to ACM.zip & ACM_Dock.zip (first Post).

? ?? ?

[xnfeng]

A simple tool can remove the desktop icon text, it also can dance desktop icons and so on. You can find it from http://www.idesksoft.com/

[patinho]

Hey Herby

Everytime you keep on adding more and more to this fabulous collection.

I'm kinda interested in the icons on the right side of the start menu (NOT the Left side).

I've merged your 'shutdown' to it and it look and works great.

I'd like to add other shortcuts to programs, like Opera, etc

What do I have to do?

Many thanks

Patinho

[Herby]

A simple tool can remove the desktop icon text, it also can dance desktop icons and so on. You can find it from http://www.idesksoft.com/

It is'nt free, it runs in the background and you can't add context menu items.

Hey Herby

Everytime you keep on adding more and more to this fabulous collection.

I'm kinda interested in the icons on the right side of the start menu (NOT the Left side).

I've merged your 'shutdown' to it and it look and works great.

I'd like to add other shortcuts to programs, like Opera, etc

What do I have to do?

Many thanks

Patinho

It's not possible to add more buttons to the right side.

You can modify the Shutdown reg file and replace the commands with programs.

See the tutorial for more info. :)

[hellequin]

Desktop Icons without Text - More functionality with less Icons!

? No Alt+255 or Alt+0160 -> No Text selection box when you select an Icon

? Enhanced Context Menu's -> You can run several commands with one Icon

? You can add them to the Start Menu (Pinned Programs List)

? You can use them in a dock with working Context Menu's

? No exta application running in the background

? Easy Installation & Uninstallationallation

? ? ? ? Uninstall: Merge the "Remove" regs and Refresh your Desktop + delete NirCmd.* from your Windows or System32 directory.

[/color] (fixed some MUP issues)

If you have merged older versions of these files, run "Remove all.bat" first and then merge the "Add" reg files.

You can change the Icons, the location, the tooltip and the name ofShell Object EditorEditor[/url] (right click and select Expert Mode) or by editing the reg files (see Tutorial).

[/color] Download ACM_Dock.zip and merge the "Add" regs from the icons that you want to use.

Open the "Entire Network" folder (My Network Places -> Entire Network) and drag the icons into the Start Menu.

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<[/Herby] t? ACM.ziprdana-->ACM.zip ( 272 KB )

nice post man, worked fine here

[Herby]

Here's one for Sound Blaster X-Fi :)

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Install: Merge the "Add" reg (double click & click on yes) and Refresh your Desktop.

The last 3 commands use X-Fi Mode Changer to change the Mode.

Extract XFiMode.zip to %ProgramFiles%\XFiMode\ (you don't need to run it in the background).

Use the files in the Dock directory if you want to use the Icon in a Dock (see _Dock.txt for more info).

Uninstall: Merge the "Remove" reg and Refresh your Desktop.

? X-Fi.zip (291 KB)

[Yuxi]

Wow, this can really clean up my desktop even more :D

Thanks!

[Herby]

Wow, this can really clean up my desktop even more :D

Thanks!

You're welkome! :)

Found some Command line parameters that are used by IE7 RC1 to delete the browsing history:

Delete Temporary Internet Files:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

Delete Cookies:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2

Delete History:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1

Delete Form Data:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16

Delete Passwords:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32

Delete All:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255

Delete All + files and settings stored by Add-ons:

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351

I've created a new IE7 Icon with the "delete browsing history" commands (incl. the Dock version):

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IE7.zip

[.Eric]

Hmm this is very useful, It is confusing me a bit, but Ill keep reading it and ill try asking some people in IRC..

Thanks for this!

EDIT:

Uh oh... I dragged it from the desktop to the start menu thing above all programs and now theres a blank space I cant delete... HELP

Edited September 9, 2006 by .Eric

[Herby]

Uh oh... I dragged it from the desktop to the start menu thing above all programs and now theres a blank space I cant delete... HELP

Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties, click on the Start Menu tab, select Customize, decrease the "Number of programs on Start" (I've set it to 0). :)

Edit: Uhm,.. I read that you dragged it from the Desktop to the Start Menu, if you want to use them in the Start Menu you must download ACM_Dock.zip (see Post #1), Merge the Remove regs from the Icons that you used (to remove them from the Desktop) and merge the Add regs from the Icons that you want to use.

These reg files will add the Icons to "Entire Network" instead of to the Desktop + they have names.

Open the "Entire Network" folder (My Network Places -> Entire Network) and drag the icons into the Start Menu.

Edited September 10, 2006 by Herby

[Herby]

@ .Eric: I've checked it and created a fix:

Unzip the attached zip and merge StartPageFavoFix.reg.

Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties, click on the Start Menu tab, select Classic Start Menu, click on Apply, select Start Menu, click on Apply & click on OK.

The list should now be empty. :)

You can now add the icons: see the Edit part from the previous post.

StartPageFavoFix.zip

[.Eric]

@ .Eric: I've checked it and created a fix:

Unzip the attached zip and merge StartPageFavoFix.reg.

Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties, click on the Start Menu tab, select Classic Start Menu, click on Apply, select Start Menu, click on Apply & click on OK.

The list should now be empty. :)

You can now add the icons: see the Edit part from the previous post.

Yay!! It worked PERFECT! Thanks a TON!!!

[callum.nz]

thanx alot ;)

[StixBit]

Heres a little program i wrote to make changing the icon easier.

Can be used as a stand-alone program , or via a "Change Icon" entry to the icon's context menu.

It uses the CLSID ( with the brackets ) as a command line and writes the chosen icon selection back to the correct CLSID in the registry.

To run as a stand-alone program use :

ie: Change_Icon.exe {716b69a8-6efb-44dc-9ed0-61be190bf15d}

Or to use as a context menu item on a shortcut :

Simply copy the Change_Icon.exe program to your windows folder ( or anywhere else ) and add the following to the reg file you want to have the "Change Icon" menu item :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\----PUT YOUR CLSID (with brackets) HERE----\Shell\99]
@="Change Icon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\----PUT YOUR CLSID (with brackets) HERE----\Shell\99\Command]
@="C:\\Windows\\Change_Icon.exe ----PUT YOUR CLSID (with brackets) HERE----"

See the included reg files for a working example.

Icon_Changer.zip

Enjoy.

[asite]

I do not like winxp,I am using win2000 server . Can I utilize this software?

the settings are too hard.

[nikmz]

Great work Herby...

Shutdown button is very useful for me, big THANKS :D

[Winthorp]

So what exactly is the easiest way to install this mod?

I really would just like the start menu mod that is shown.