I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
..ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to keep
them hidden.

Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
visible?

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OndTNtgpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
>.ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
>the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to
>keep them hidden.
>
> Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
> visible?
>
>[/color]

Turn on the sidebar and hide them under a gadget ;-)

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You KNOW why they are now showing. Undo what you did to make them visible.

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OndTNtgpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
>.ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
>the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to
>keep them hidden.
>
> Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
> visible?
>
>[/color]

Can't be done. If you want hidden and system files shown, ALL hidden and
system files will be shown including these two.

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"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OndTNtgpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
>.ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
>the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to
>keep them hidden.
>
> Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
> visible?
>
>[/color]

No. With the hidden files it's either all or none.


--
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"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OndTNtgpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
>.ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
>the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to
>keep them hidden.
>
> Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
> visible?
>
>[/color]

You beat me to it.
I've been deleting them for months and haven't had to restore one yet.
Amir


"dmex" <dmex.2rmmg3@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:dmex.2rmmg3@no-mx.forums.net...[color=blue]
>
> you can allways delete them since they do nothing except give explorer
> one tiny picture in a user folder where you wouldnt care about.
>
>
> --
> dmex[/color]

So to sum up all people here said, you probably won't see the .ini if you
disable viewing of system files. If you set Windoze to show both system and
hidden files - you will see the .ini.

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This response certainly sounds unhelpful, not to mention a bit rude. If I understand the intended message correctly, should one accept that the only way to "fix" something is by giving up and not trying to do it?

As for hiding the desktop.ini file in the desktop, you can in fact do it. Maybe you can't make it not "be there", but you can make it [I]appear invisible[/I] (i.e., while still having hidden and superhidden files show up in your explorer).

Here's how I do it:

1) Assign a blank (transparent) default icon to .ini files (inifiles on the registry).
2) If you have "show extensions" enabled, you need to add a value in the registry to not show the extensions only for .ini files (NeverShowExt).
3) Finally, use a free program such as iconoid to make the text of your desktop icons be the same color as you desktop's background (assuming you are using a solid color, but if you are annoyed by desktop.ini files showing (as am I), you probably don't have a full color picture of your baby niece as your background either :smile: )

Note that none of your other desktop icons would show their text either, but that's only an added bonus in my book... At least now I don't have to Alt-255 them into oblivion...

Good luck!

[quote=Richard Urban;546717]You KNOW why they are now showing. Undo what you did to make them visible.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OndTNtgpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[COLOR=blue]
>I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop
>.ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop,
>the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to
>keep them hidden.
>
> Any ideas how to hide them whilst keeping other hidden files and folder
> visible?
>
>[/COLOR][/quote]

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:24:48 +0000, Carmenvirginia wrote:
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> As for hiding the desktop.ini file in the desktop, you can in fact
> do it. Maybe you can't make it not "be there", but you can make
> it -appear invisible- (i.e., while still having hidden and
> superhidden files show up in your explorer).[/color]

Why not just elect for the recommended setting to hide system files?
You can always temporarily expose them if you need to.

Try working with Vista instead of against it.

--
Chris Game

"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again." -- Bart Simpson

To Hide Them Click

Start - Control Panel - Folder Options - then View Tab - Hide System Files

And Done

Or you could right click on the desktop, go to view and uncheck "show desktop icons". You can put the icons that you use regularly in the quicklaunch toolbar, and turn "show desktop icons" on and off when you want to see the rest of them.