[NC10]remove Recycle Bin & Bluetooth Places from desktop

[Sideburnt]

Well this is an old hack, but with a limited desktop, and the freely available dock software out there (Rocketdock RK Dock ect…) which all have recycle bin applets, there is little need to have either of these icons on screen

Bin the Bin
Open Registry Editor. (regedit)
In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

Quote:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace

Find the following key:

Quote:

{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

right click and Delete the above key.

You may need to restart but otherwise y’done.

Boot the Bluetooth
Download TweakUI from XP powerToys, theres some other good’uns there too like cleartype tweaking, but for now you just need to concentrate on Tweak UI.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Once installed, find the desktop section, you will have to option of removing several desktop items, one of which is Bluetooth Places.

Bluetooth places can still be accessed via the start bar.

y’done

[Rsaeire]

Another easy way to delete the ‘My Bluetooth Places’ icon on the desktop is to do the following:

1. Right-click anywhere on the desktop and select ‘Properties’.
2. Select the ‘Desktop’ tab, then ‘Customize Desktop’ and a new window will open.
3. Under ‘Desktop cleanup’, at the bottom of the new window, Untick ‘Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days’ and select ‘Clean Desktop Now’.
4. Once the ‘Desktop Cleanup Wizard’ opens, select ‘Next’
5. Tick the box next to ‘My Bluetooth Places’, select ‘Next’ and then ‘Finish’.
6. There will now be a folder on your desktop named ‘Unused Desktop Shortcuts’.
7. Delete this folder and the ‘My Bluetooth Places’ icon will be completely removed from your desktop.

[TeutonJon78]

Or, if you go download TweakUI for Microsoft XP from Microsoft, it should be able to provide a GUI to do this and a whole lot more.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[Strider]

Thanks for the tips – the blueetooth icon was really staring to annoy me.

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