How to make desktop icons go away from desktop toolbar in Vista?

[Weltanscha]

I don't find the desktop proper to be of much use (usually too many
windows in the way, for my taste) but I do use the desktop toolbar
quite a bit. There are icons that I can remove from the desktop
proper, via Desktop Icon Settings (Computer, User’s files, Network,
Recycle Bin, Control Panel), but they and the Public folder won’t
leave the toolbar, and I can’t seem to kill the IE icon off for good,
either. Does anyone know how to kill them dead and send them to Vista
Hell?

Alternatively, I’d be perfectly willing to use a toolbar I create
instead (I already use two others), but I like being able to right
click on a folder and send a shortcut to the desktop toolbar. I know
how to add toolbars as destinations to the Send To menu, but not how
to send shortcuts to folders there instead of the folders themselves.

 

[Mark]

Right click on the taskbar, click properties and on the "taskbar" tab
uncheck "show quicklaunch", then on the "notification area" tab uncheck
everything, then on the "toolbar" tab uncheck everything. That should clean
everything up.

I don't find the desktop proper to be of much use (usually too many
windows in the way, for my taste) but I do use the desktop toolbar
quite a bit. There are icons that I can remove from the desktop
proper, via Desktop Icon Settings (Computer, User’s files, Network,
Recycle Bin, Control Panel), but they and the Public folder won’t
leave the toolbar, and I can’t seem to kill the IE icon off for good,
either. Does anyone know how to kill them dead and send them to Vista
Hell?

Alternatively, I’d be perfectly willing to use a toolbar I create
instead (I already use two others), but I like being able to right
click on a folder and send a shortcut to the desktop toolbar. I know
how to add toolbars as destinations to the Send To menu, but not how
to send shortcuts to folders there instead of the folders themselves.

 

[Weltanscha]

Thanks. I thought maybe you were suggesting a procedure for reseting
things or something, but that didn't accomplish that. What I'm
looking for is a way to ensure that when I open the desktop--as a
*toolbar*, not as the desktop per se--I only see the shortcuts that I
put there, and not the things that I didn't put there, don't want to
see there, and consider clutter (Computer, User’s files, Network,
Recycle Bin, Control Panel, IE icon). I figure it probably involves
messing with the registry, but I get a little skittish about the idea
of trying out "brain surgery" ideas until I get lucky and get things
right.

Or a way to send folder shortcuts to a user-defined toolbar using
nothing more complicated than a right-click.

- Tom