How to remove text from desktop icons.

[Bazcaz]

If you would like some of your desktop Icons to have no text underneath then try this;

Right click the icon and select [Rename]
Name the icon Alt+255 and hit Enter
( this means you hold down the Alt key and type 255 then release the Alt key )
The text will be gone from the icon.

For each successive icon to have the text eliminated, repeat the above sequence adding an additional Alt+255 sequence. For example, the second no text icon would be 'renamed' Alt+255 Alt+255, the third no text icon Alt+255 Alt+255 Alt+255, etc.....Mind you I just tried it and ALT 255 was all I needed to do on each one on XP HOME

[BlueIndian]

Thanks for that great tip.

[Eve]

sitting here looking like an envelope without any address on it
That me!
Bazcaz, I just can not get this to work. I can remember trying it some time ago with the same result. I have XP Home too so dont know what I am doing wrong!
While on the subject, I was showing a friend how to transparentise the text under icons. Managed that, but can not remember what I did to eliminate the underlining of text.(until mouse over) Can anyone tell me how I did this? :confused:


I remembered! NowPosted in PCs running windows

[jbs3645]

Bazcaz,
good tip. I use win98se and instead of 255 you use 0160. Just in case anyone has the older versions and would like to do this. I got this as a tip from Lockergnome.

[Amie]

Bazcaz,
good tip. I use win98se and instead of 255 you use 0160. Just in case anyone has the older versions and would like to do this. I got this as a tip from Lockergnome.

Thank you,

I still use 98SE and wondered if there was a code for it too. :)

[Suze]

good tip just used it & my deaktop is pretty neat looking now

[geow25]

Eve, you have to use the "key pad" (num lock on the far right)

[Eve]

Geow, Thank you so much for enlightening me. :D It worked. Just hope I dont forget what my icons represent now!!

[Breezy]

Very interesting information... my desktop is really very clean but, I will keep this in mind for future reference. Thanks! :D