Hiding icons and verve

In NT & Win2k you can disable your desktop via the registry and that will hide all of your icons.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\Explorer

look for the NoDesktop entry and change the REG_DWORD value to 1.



No idea where you can find verve though. Every download link I've come across is from the now defunct 545studios.com.


Also you can try http://www.download.com and search for "hide desktop icons", you'll probably come up with a sizeable list.


And finally if you're using WindowsXP you just right click on the desktop and go to "arange icons by" then uncheck "show desktop icons".

i just did what he^^ said and the only problem with it is you cant right click on your desktop

Heh, yeah.. that's the one drawback to doing that. When I used to use Win2k I didn't mind though, the only usefull thing to me in the desktop context menu was "properties" which I could get to just the same by going into the control panel. I know there's a million and one applications out there that will hide your desktop icons but I try not to have somewhat useless apps running all the time and taking up memory.

If you're planning to upgrade to XP though hiding the desktop icons is a built in function of the OS, a nice little feature.

I can't beleive you told him to do that..

you can hide your desktop icons on win98 and up really easily. there are options in windows 98 and up to hide your dekstop icons when your desktop is viewed as a web page. you can still right click on the desktop too. I don't use that any more though, cause at the moment I'm using geoshell :)

i have a copy of verve i can email to you-just need your email address

btw-i'm pretty sure that you can get verve and a few other 545 apps on devart now...

i have no clue like usual

hmm, i liked yer original idea to go back to litestep, yeah, you should do that, MUCH easier than anything else. (i love my litestep)

thanks for all your help, found verve
Making my own ls theme now, look for SS soon.

what is the best ls hangout/ theme source now that .net is down

I think the program Invisible! 2001 (www.mindbeat.com) is probably the easiest way to hiding your icons. It has a "show your desktop" feature, which you can just un-check and it will hide all of your icons. Works well for me...