2nd May 2000
Icons are not always welcome; they're relatively simple to remove from your Desktop (though some are shortcuts, others may be real objects). When was the last time you used a certain applet in your Control Panel? Never? Fine; you can get rid of it. Control Panel icons are merely the 'CPL' files sitting in your 'System' folder. Do a search on your Windows drive (C) for: "*.CPL" (without the quotes). Now, you CAN move these out of the 'System' folder -- but be careful; most of these are critical apps. Double-click on one to note what it does; do you truly need that icon in your Control Panel? A safer, suggested route would be for you to open the CONTROL.INI file, look for the [don't load] section, then enter the filename followed by a negative attribute. If I wanted to hide the Desktop settings icon, I'd enter: "desk.cpl=no" (again, without the quotes). See ya!