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Way to hide a desktop icon temporarily?
skwire:
If the "icon" is indeed a shortcut it will "disappear" if the Hidden attribute is set. As an experiment I made a shortcut to cmd.exe and checked the Hidden attribute. It winked out when I hit the Apply Button. :)-MilesAhead (September 03, 2014, 02:52 PM)
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I actually did think of this earlier but, if you're like me, you have "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" option enabled so this method wouldn't work.
MilesAhead:
If the "icon" is indeed a shortcut it will "disappear" if the Hidden attribute is set. As an experiment I made a shortcut to cmd.exe and checked the Hidden attribute. It winked out when I hit the Apply Button. :)-MilesAhead (September 03, 2014, 02:52 PM)
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I actually did think of this earlier but, if you're like me, you have "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" option enabled so this method wouldn't work.
-skwire (September 03, 2014, 02:57 PM)
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Does the OP have that option enabled? Let's ask. :)
Personally I hate seeing desktop.ini files in "empty" folders so I never enable it.
Curt:
I like having a clean desktop-jshare (September 03, 2014, 03:53 AM)
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J-Mac:
Fences! http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Works great!
Jim
jshare:
Fences! http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Works great!
Jim
-J-Mac (September 03, 2014, 03:36 PM)
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Thanks Jim.
Fences is very cool and useful, but it's overkill and the only way I could achieve what I want is with a clunky custom rule for each icon that I want to hide, and that's a lot of work.
The usecase I'm looking for is: right-click on the icon to hide > Choose 'Hide until' > select a date and time. The icon then disappears until then.
Does the OP have that option enabled? Let's ask. :)
Personally I hate seeing desktop.ini files in "empty" folders so I never enable it.
-MilesAhead (September 03, 2014, 03:03 PM)
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Yes, I do have it enabled too.
Desktop icons can be either actual files or shortcuts (which are actually LNK files). So, short of moving particualr files to, say, a temp folder and back to the desktop on a schedule, which seems a bit hackish, I don't think what you want is elegantly possible.
-skwire (September 03, 2014, 02:07 PM)
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Doh!
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