Tweak Library – Hide Internet Explorer icon on desktop.

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Hide Internet Explorer icon on desktop.

This setting lets you to hide the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

You have a choice to display the desired standard icons on the Desktop. If you don’t use Internet Explorer as your default browser, you can hide the “Internet Explorer” icon from Desktop.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed at serial number 1 to check the Internet Explorer version. Check the string value name “IE” and its data value should correspond to 6.0 or above.

Now, navigate to the registry path listed at serial number 2 and search for the key “{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}”. If found right-click to delete it.

Then, search the registry path listed at serial number 3 and 4 for HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and create a DWORD value “NoInternetIcon”, if this value does not exist. Right-click on it and modify the value data to “1”.

Finally, navigate to the registry path at serial number 5 and check for the DWORD value name "Attributes", create if not existing. Right-click on it and modify the value data "100024" to hide the icon.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

View Information

Registry Entry 2 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Deleted

Registry Entry 3 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

NoInternetIcon

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Modified

Registry Entry 4 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

NoInternetIcon

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Modified

Registry Entry 5 :

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\ShellFolder\]

Key Type :

Root

Value Name :

Attributes

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

100024

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Modified

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

‘Internet Explorer’ icon is removed from the 'Desktop'.

‘Internet Explorer’ icon is visible on the 'Desktop' by default.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\] key, right-click and click on "Modify".

Fourth, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}] key, right-click and click on "Delete".

Fifth, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click on the "NoInternetIcon" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Sixth, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Seventh, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click on the "NoInternetIcon" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Eighth, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Ninth, go to the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\ShellFolder\] key, right-click on the "Attributes" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Finally, enter the value "100024" in the text box and click on 'OK'.