I recently received a note from "Dr. Nick"
about the edits listed above. I wanted to add his letter to
the page and thank him personally for some excellent
detective work. Thanks Nick -- Jim / TEG
TEG,
I was just looking for
information about showing the IE icon on the desktop in
XP and came across your page.
Unfortunately, the information
you have is incorrect regarding the NoInternetIcon
registry value. You can force XP to *hide* the icon
using that key (it's part of
Group Policy) but you cannot force it to *show* it. Some
registry monitoring showed me that you can easily
show/hide special desktop icons via the registry,
updated immediately with a refresh of the Desktop.
In
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
there are several GUIDs, one for each of the icons. A
value of 0x0 will show the icon, 0x1 will hide it.
Network Places:
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
My Computer:
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
My Documents:
{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
Internet Explorer:
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Recycle Bin:
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Those values will be the same
on all XP machines.
Feel free to throw Dr. Nick
some credit if you decide to update your page :)
[ Done -- Jim ]
Nick
