Hi,
Long time lurker, love these groups; very informative.

ICONs:
-- I would like to either;
1. Get rid of the space the icon itself occupies, leaving
only the text area being displayed. Or,
2. Get rid of the text area, leaving only the icon picture
portion being displayed.

Why? It's a personality conflight <g>. So many of the
ICONs are meaningless to me, the don't alphabetize correctly
(never did figure out what "name" Sort by Name uses!), and I
do know how to read and group similar types of programs.
I would much rather have simply the program text names on
my desktop than all the wasted space taken up by displaying
both the icon and the text. And since you can't remember
all the icons without the text, it only makes sense to me to
get rid of the graphic and leave the text.

Can anyone provide a source that will let me do that? If
there's a way to do it already in Display, wherever, I can't
find it.
OH, and I can make my own icons if #2 can be cone but #1
can't. Obviously I would prefer #1.

Thanks,

Pop

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Open folder options in control-panel,file types.From thier you can edit to your
hearts content.

"Andrew E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Open folder options in control-panel,file types.From thier
you can edit to youre
> hearts content.

Yessss, I'd agree one can do a lot there, but far from to my
"heart's content", I'm afraid. If there is a way to change
a desktop icon to a simple text display and only use screen
real estate that the text requires, you'll have to point it
out, because I don't think it can be done from there. I
think you misunderstood my OP.

Pop

On Sun, 9 May 2004 12:08:24 -0400, Pop Rivet wrote:

> Hi,
> Long time lurker, love these groups; very informative.
>
> ICONs:
> -- I would like to either;
> 1. Get rid of the space the icon itself occupies, leaving
> only the text area being displayed. Or,
> 2. Get rid of the text area, leaving only the icon picture
> portion being displayed.
>
> Why? It's a personality conflight <g>. So many of the
> ICONs are meaningless to me, the don't alphabetize correctly
> (never did figure out what "name" Sort by Name uses!), and I
> do know how to read and group similar types of programs.
> I would much rather have simply the program text names on
> my desktop than all the wasted space taken up by displaying
> both the icon and the text. And since you can't remember
> all the icons without the text, it only makes sense to me to
> get rid of the graphic and leave the text.
>
> Can anyone provide a source that will let me do that? If
> there's a way to do it already in Display, wherever, I can't
> find it.
> OH, and I can make my own icons if #2 can be cone but #1
> can't. Obviously I would prefer #1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pop

Within the conventional confines of the XP desktop - I don't think you can
do what you want. It is object oriented - point and click and there is no
way that I know of to reduce the icon/label combo to a label only.

I wonder if you could use the Active Desktop features to accomplish what
you want? Display Properties> Desktop> Customize Desktop> Web Items. Create
an HTML file that contains links to items (local or on the internet) that
you want access to. Add the home made HTML file to the Web Items list.

Also, there are some third party programs that can be used to create a
customized interface. Thinking something along the lines of DesktopX from
Stardock.com (http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/) might fit the
bill.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User

Thank you Sharon; I think I understand your response. I'll
check out the Stardock; if nothing else, maybe I'll at least
figure out some search terms to use overat Google. Woof!
Did you ever do a search there for "icon"? <g>

Than ks again.
Pop

"Sharon F" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 9 May 2004 12:08:24 -0400, Pop Rivet wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Long time lurker, love these groups; very informative.
> >
> > ICONs:
> > -- I would like to either;
> > 1. Get rid of the space the icon itself occupies,
leaving
> > only the text area being displayed. Or,
> > 2. Get rid of the text area, leaving only the icon
picture
> > portion being displayed.
> >
> > Why? It's a personality conflight <g>. So many of the
> > ICONs are meaningless to me, the don't alphabetize
correctly
> > (never did figure out what "name" Sort by Name uses!),
and I
> > do know how to read and group similar types of programs.
> > I would much rather have simply the program text
names on
> > my desktop than all the wasted space taken up by
displaying
> > both the icon and the text. And since you can't
remember
> > all the icons without the text, it only makes sense to
me to
> > get rid of the graphic and leave the text.
> >
> > Can anyone provide a source that will let me do that?
If
> > there's a way to do it already in Display, wherever, I
can't
> > find it.
> > OH, and I can make my own icons if #2 can be cone but
#1
> > can't. Obviously I would prefer #1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pop
>
> Within the conventional confines of the XP desktop - I
don't think you can
> do what you want. It is object oriented - point and click
and there is no
> way that I know of to reduce the icon/label combo to a
label only.
>
> I wonder if you could use the Active Desktop features to
accomplish what
> you want? Display Properties> Desktop> Customize Desktop>
Web Items. Create
> an HTML file that contains links to items (local or on the
internet) that
> you want access to. Add the home made HTML file to the Web
Items list.
>
> Also, there are some third party programs that can be used
to create a
> customized interface. Thinking something along the lines
of DesktopX from
> Stardock.com (http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/)
might fit the
> bill.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User

>>. Get rid of the text area, leaving only the icon picture
portion being displayed.


Yes. You can change the names of the icons to a character that is only a
space actually.
You can find this character with the CHARACTER MAP and its combination is
ALT+0160.
For each icon you must have more of these characters in order to not have 2
icons with the same file name.
You can also turn files extensions off from the folder properties for those
icons that have file extensions.
Also from DISPLAY> APPEARENCE> ADVACNED you can then make the icons spacing
smaller.

> 1. Get rid of the space the icon itself occupies, leaving
> only the text area being displayed. Or,

YES! You can make a totally transparent icon and use that for every icon on
your desktop, then you can go to
DISPLAY> APPEARENCE> ADVACNED you can then make the icons spacing smaller.

In otherwords it is possible but are you willing to do all this work to make
it so?


Kenny



"Pop Rivet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:nJ-dnfA8YaHkygPdRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> Long time lurker, love these groups; very informative.
>
> ICONs:
> -- I would like to either;
> 1. Get rid of the space the icon itself occupies, leaving
> only the text area being displayed. Or,
> 2. Get rid of the text area, leaving only the icon picture
> portion being displayed.
>
> Why? It's a personality conflight <g>. So many of the
> ICONs are meaningless to me, the don't alphabetize correctly
> (never did figure out what "name" Sort by Name uses!), and I
> do know how to read and group similar types of programs.
> I would much rather have simply the program text names on
> my desktop than all the wasted space taken up by displaying
> both the icon and the text. And since you can't remember
> all the icons without the text, it only makes sense to me to
> get rid of the graphic and leave the text.
>
> Can anyone provide a source that will let me do that? If
> there's a way to do it already in Display, wherever, I can't
> find it.
> OH, and I can make my own icons if #2 can be cone but #1
> can't. Obviously I would prefer #1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pop
>
> --
>
> ---
> What kind of animals kills its own?
>
>


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