Is it possible to remove all the icons from a Win2k desktop?

Jerry Honeycutt

Published: 10 Feb 2003

Is there a way to remove all the icons from a Windows 2000 desktop, including My Computer, My Network and Recycle Bin?
Yes. You can remove all of these icons via the registry. See Take charge of your desktop.

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system tray The system tray (or "systray") is a section of the taskbars in the Microsoft Windows desktop user interface that is used to display the clock and the icons of certain programs so that a user is continually reminded that they are there and can easily click one of them.

Executing procedures with desktop icon I am creating PL/SQL procedures on my local machine and compiling them using Benthic software. Is there a way to invoke/execute these procedures using a desktop icon/link?

How do I remove a single icon from the system tray? How do I remove a single icon from the system tray? Also, I'd like to know how to stop an icon from reappearing on my desktop. When I delete it and log off, the icon does not return when I log back on, but returns when I restart the system.

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