Re: How to remove desktop icons w/out deleting?

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:57:58 -0600

Right-click on each Desktop icon you wish to delete
and select "delete". 

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"Scot" wrote:
| Other icons include those bundled with a Sony system -- Quicken, AOL, 
| Netscape, Norton Internet Security, SpySubtract, various VAIO icons, etc.  I 
| just now found the answer by Right-Ckicking on the screen / Arrange Icons by 
| / Show Desktop Icons (which I would UNcheck to cause all icons to 
| disappear).  What I'd like to do is selectively make certain icons disappear 
| but retain others such as Recycle Bin and a VAIO icon.  Is it possible to 
| keep some visible while making others disappear without literally deleting 
| them from the system?
|

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