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1 Do step 2 (show) or step 3 (hide) below for what you would like to do. 2 To Show All Your Desktop Icons. This is the default setting. A) Right click or press and hold on your desktop (Shift+F10), click/tap on View, and click/tap on Show desktop icons to check it afterwards. (see screenshot below) 3 To Hide All Your Desktop Icons.
How can one disable the "Show Desktop Icons" setting in the Windows 10 Desktop -> View menu? I have found this PowerShell script to check the setting, but I could not find a way to set this
Yes you can. In administrator account right click on public desktop directory, security, select user (add if not displayed), edit permissions e.g. deny all rights. I will explain more if I find more time. Share. Improve this answer. answered Jan 1, 2013 at 12:27. neyl. 219 2 7. 1.
Suppose you want to hide the file “desktop.ini” which is in your X: drive (can be redirected to any location). So open command prompt typing “cmd” in the “run” from Windows start menu.Now change the drive typing “ X: ” and then press enter. Now enter the following command: X:> attrib desktop.ini +s +h. (for hiding file/folder ...
1. This batch file is used to change various settings on a Windows computer, such as showing or hiding the seconds in the system clock and showing or hiding desktop icons. First, this batch calls a subroutine called "CreateShortcut" which creates a shortcut to the batch file on the user's desktop and assigns a hotkey of CTRL + ALT + I to it.
To type that "Hidden Character", please using Alt + 255 or Alt + 0160. Note that: Files and Folders cannot have the same name, eg.: If File1 is named with one "Hidden Character", File2 must name with two "Hidden Characters". Btw, I think there are some third-party programs that can hide it from the icons. This must be the easier way.
2. nirsoft's nircmd can do this I believe. Hide the desktop window -> nircmd.exe win hide class progman and Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example) -> nircmd.exe win show class progman. – LPChip. Mar 4, 2021 at 10:17. @LPChip nice! that's workable and will help. Was hoping to do it without changing the desktop picture ...
2. I was wondering if the computer performance benefits in any way by simply hiding desktop icons. In general, no. Two factors that affect loading the icons for shortcuts on the desktop are the number of desktop items (some people have a ridiculously cluttered desktop), and the source of the icons. If the icon for a shortcut is stored in an ...
15. There is no known way around it, but I know a little workaround: Select properties on the public folder, go to the security tab and revoke all permissions for your user profile, by dissalowing reading from it your account won't be able to see what shortcuts are inside \Public\Desktop\ - resulting in the behaviour you want - no icons ...
Enable_changing_desktop_icons.reg. 3. To Disable Changing Desktop Icons for All Users. A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below. Disable_changing_desktop_icons.reg. 4. Save the .reg file to your desktop. 5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.