Monday, October 7, 2002		Tips & Tricks

Hide all icons on desktop

To do this trick:
Start>run>regedit> Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer. In the right pane create a new DWORD value by the name: NoDesktop and set its value to: 1(right click>modify). Reboot and you will find no icons on the desktop. Again for displaying all the icons as before just delete the key you made. Reboot again and you will find all icons on your desktop.

Fancy IE toolbar

The Internet Explorer toolbar looks pretty simple. Want to make it fancy and cool. Here’s the trick, Just add a background image to it and you will be astonished to see your toolbar. To do this trick, launch the Windows Registry Editor. Start>run>regedit>and go to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>Microsoft> Internet Explorer>Toolbar>.

Now in the right pane create a new String Value and name it BackBitmap and modify its value to the path of the Bitmap (*. bmp only) you want to dress it up with by right clicking on it and choosing Modify. When you reboot the Internet Explorer and the Windows Explorer toolbars will have a new look. The bitmap will overlap your toolbar and will have fresh looks. To disable this trick, delete the last key that you made from the registry.