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Desktop Icon Control
Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop
icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. |
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Desktop Icon Control
On Thu, 30 May 2019 15:59:38 -0700, FreeMan
wrote: Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Mi...deDesktopIcons PS It becomes a bit annoying after a while. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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In message , FreeMan
writes: Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! I think you can select different keys in Iconoid - Options | Select Hot Keys? Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. Why do you want such a function? -- Three- (or four-) way referendum, if we _have_ to have another one. (Where has the "treat northern Ireland differently" option gone?) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf offensive speech is something to be protected, not celebrated. - "yoni", 2015-8-5 |
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Clutterness abolished. My desktop is covered with icons. I have a toolbar I use for the icons I want available. I would rather have a button to turn on and off the icon visibility rather than having to remember complicated key sequences that must be uses since many of my apps already use complicated enough keystroke combinations. FreeMan wrote: Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. |
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FreeMan wrote:
Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. Why not just right click on the desktop, view, hide? |
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FreeMan brought next idea :
Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. Here's one that works per your request HideDesktopIcons https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ons-on-or-off/ -- Zo "Wanted: Part-time married girls for soda fountain in sandwich shop." |
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On Thu, 30 May 2019 20:17:15 -0500, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
FreeMan wrote: Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. Why not just right click on the desktop, view, hide? I think you mean to un-check "Show desktop icons." I don't know why I'd ever want to do that, but it's interesting that it's there. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On 5/30/2019 3:59 PM, FreeMan wrote:
Looking for a free icon desktop control that will hide/show the desktop icons with a control on the taskbar or ??? I want to turn on or off visibility. Other features not required. I tried Iconoid but it took over the Ctrl key. No go ! Need for Win XP and beyond. Thanks. What you need is to clean up your desktop and then exercise some discipline about how you populate your desktop. I have NO icons to applications on my desktop. When installing a new application or updating an old one, I remove any icon that results from that installation (after I make sure that the appropriate icon also exists in my Start menu). After all, such icons are merely shortcuts to the application and not the application itself. My desktop is populated only with icons that are shortcuts to files and folders that I frequently use. Those icons are arranged around the edges of my desktop, leaving the center mostly empty. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list. https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz |
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Freeman,
Clutterness abolished. My desktop is covered with icons. In that case, why don't you put a folder link into the "Quick Launch" area and put all those links in there ? Or maybe add a folder to the "C:\Documents and Settings\{you name}\Start Menu"(1) one, and have that folder appear in your startmenu in the same way as the "programs" one, as a fold-out submenu. (1) or right-click the "programs" entry, choose "open" or "explore", and go one folder up. Instead of having to switch them on/off everytime (and having to move dialogs because they obscure the icon you want to click) the access to them stays the same, regardless of what you are doing. It works for me (even though I've still got a few on the desktop :-) ). Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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