gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » icon-hider http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hide all icons on your desktophttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/10/hide-all-icons-on-your-desktop/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/10/hide-all-icons-on-your-desktop/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:40:33 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/10/hide-all-icons-on-your-desktop/ I bet that you have many icons on your desktop. I do and I’m sure that the majority of users will have many icons on their desktop as well. It is convenient to have them there to be able to quickstart the programs right from the desktop. Some icons might be there because you forgot to disable the option to remove the icon on the desktop while installing the program.

I also dislike the fact that I have so many icons on my desktop, it destroys the background image that I have selected for example. One way to get rid of the icons temporarily is to use the program Icon Hider. Icon hider sits in your system tray and is able to temporarily remove all the icons on your desktop. This can be useful for aesthetic reasons, for screenshots and screencasting.

Iconhider has some additional functions that might be not that useful, judge for yourself. You may start the screensaver immediately, minimize all applications. You can use shortcuts to remove all icons, the shortcut to remove all icons is CTRL+ALT+H, the shortcut to make them appear again is CTRL+ALT+S.

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