How to hide desktop icons throug registry

usch65 said:

I'm getting old...

Shhh.. it happens.

kintomaniac: I tried the key you mentioned and don't work, even if I restart or logoff they (icons) still there! Thank you anyway!

Thanks for your reply Usch65 but it seems the key you mentioned "HKU\S-1-5-21-4..." changes according user. Here my key is different. Even with different key (HKU\S-1-5-21-747723790-1272229472-943324645-500) I manually changed the hideicons value to 1 (0x00000001) and the icons on desktop are still there, but the funny thing is the option in context menu is unchecked, so i tried a logoff and then WORKS!!! I think this key will be the same for all of my machines because the user on automated installation is administrator, but i will do more tests with different machines to see if it changes!!!

Thank you!!!

Ooh i will try and keep you updated!! :)

.DEFAULT doesn't work (I tried), I think it is because you create some type of conflict... I just guessing

If you just don't want any icons on the users desktop delete all the icons from the default profile's desktop :)

You just want to hide icons, put this script desktop.zip in all users startup.

keep us informed :)

Hi Guys!!

I'm back with news!

The first test i've made with user key that USCH65 talked about "HKU\S-1-5-21-4..." doesn't work because this key change for all installations.

So, i've tried changing the key HideIcons on HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Explorer\Advanced to 0x00000001 and this works fine on second boot. I've created a .reg file to do that.

I also tried the desktop.vbs file that Delphin sent and works fine too. I've created a key name hidedesktop with the value "cscript c:\\desktop.vbs" on HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and this works after the second boot.

So thank you so much guys!!
You now can consider this thread resolved!

I will keep trying to find the another question i've made in this thread regarding System restore configuration!

Thanks again!