My Computer Icon in Win2K

[lempkee]

vincent: upgrade your amiga then

[that_punk_guy]

Gerbinist wrote:
A "Defender of the Faith" (ahem), a Moderator and a "Cult Member" discussing how to get rid of the "My Computer" icon... on... Windows...

Welcome to Amiga.org ;-)

I'll have you know, I am but a few posts away from being a Defender of the Faith ;-) he he

I don't see what's wrong with discussing an alternative OS on the Alternative OS forum.

[mikeymike]

I don't see what's wrong with discussing an alternative OS on the Alternative OS forum.

Sssh!  I just moved this thread there :-)

[Belial6]

I believe there is a way to safely shut off all desktop items, as opposed to just specific icons.  I don't remember how to do that, but I believe it is their.

The helpful part:  If you get all of the icons shut off, you can go to the toolbar, right click, select "Toolbars".  You can then select Other for the toolbar.  This will give you the ability to add "My Computer" as a toolbar item.

Its not exactly putting the drives on the desktop, but it will give you quick easy access to all of your drives without having to open a window to get to them.

[Cyberus]

I'll have you know, I am but a few posts away from being a Defender of the Faith  he he

And if you carry on like you have been going so far, you'll top the poster list! Jeez, you've gone past me in only two months or so!

[that_punk_guy]

Cyberus wrote:

And if you carry on like you have been going so far, you'll top the poster list! Jeez, you've gone past me in only two months or so!

I know he he :-) I'd be very interested to see some stats from the last few weeks and where I come out. I've been quite prolific.

:-)

[bhoggett]

@Vincent

It's possible, but you're probably better off with an alternative desktop shell like Talisman or LiteStep.

[bhoggett]

@that_punk_guy

Sorry for being off-topic, but this has been bugging me, what are the consequences of removing the Network Neighbourhood/Places icon?

There aren't any, except that they make the networking prefs harder to access.

Putting the icon back again is another matter.   ;-)

[Gerbinist]

@that_punk_guy

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I know he he I'd be very interested to see some stats from the last few weeks and where I come out. I've been quite prolific.

/end Quote ;-)

I can imagine. Windows has many flaws :-D

[Vincent]

mikeymike wrote:

I don't see what's wrong with discussing an alternative OS on the Alternative OS forum.

Sssh!  I just moved this thread there :-)

*me whispers "so that's why I couldn't find it!" :-)

[Vincent]

bhoggett wrote:
@Vincent

It's possible, but you're probably better off with an alternative desktop shell like Talisman or LiteStep.

Unfortunately I can't do that.  The PC is used by Siouxsie aswell and she only know the usual "Windows" layout.  She's at uni and works so she doesn't really have time to learn a new layout just now.

Maybe during the next holidays though ;-)

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@that_punk_guy

Congrats on making it to Defender of the Faith! :-D

Wait a minute.....

*me looks at the post counts*

Crap, you're only 282 behind me now! :nervous: :-D

[that_punk_guy]

Vincent wrote:
Congrats on making it to Defender of the Faith! :-D

Crap, you're only 282 behind me now! :nervous: :-D

Tee hee hee :-D

[Jagabot]

Pretty easy solution actually, replace the MyComputer icon with a blank icon, and rename it to nothing. Move it somewhere out of the way before you do this and you will never know it's there.

(You need a blank icon first to replace it with, make one yourself with iconedit or similar).

To "hide" and not disable the functionality of either, do the following regedits (don't add the ##'s those are either 1,2,3 etc depending on which icon inside your icon file you wish to use).


Network Neighborhood:

Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\ DefaultIcon, and change the (Default) value to "filename, ##."

My Computer:

Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\ DefaultIcon, and change the (Default) value to "filename, ##."

Edit: Ah, actually, here's even better instructions and details :-)
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-016

[teo]

you can do it the budget way,

1) simply make a link on the desktop to your c: in the middle of your screen (assume your my computer, network and recycled are on left of screen)

2) select the new icon and the icons on the left you dont want shown.

3) drag them all left until the c: is still showing but the others are off the screen

4) find some windows forum to ask this in.

This really is a budget way of doing it, because if you organise your icons or resize your screen they will come back again. They might even come back after reboot but i havent rebooted this win2k box for nearly a year, so i dont know...

[Vincent]

@teotwin

Interesting, I never thought of that one :-)