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- HideMe! - Desktop Icon Hider
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- Tired of those pesky icons sitting on your beautiful wallpaper and
- messing up the scene? Although you can remove most icons, some icons
- (e.g. local and network) insist on remaining on the desktop and marring
- the view. With HideMe! you can safely hide the icons from view and
- still let them exist on the desktop. HideMe! creates a small window
- that sits on TOP of those icons and then grabs the picture underneath
- the icons and paints itself with that image. The icons then appear to
- disappear! The window remains in the bottom of the z order (that means
- it stays behind all other windows on the screen. The hidden window can
- be toggled on and off via the tray icon of the eyeball. Left clicking
- the eyeball will toggle the icons visibility on and off. Right clicking
- the icon will bring up a small menu that allows you to adjust the size
- that will be covered. The program always locked so it cannot be moved
- and always appears in the upper left hand corner. (So if you want to hide
- your icons move them to the upper left corner.) If you change the
- wallpaper background you can left click the window itself and it will
- redraw itself to the new image. You can simply add this program to
- your startup and say goodbye to cluttered screens! This program is
- freeware.
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- Version/History Information:
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- March 11 1998
- V1.2
- Added feature "auto detect" to allow it to recognize that the wallpaper has changed and update
- or if turned off will not update automatically. This change due to the program getting messages
- about screen changes and updating while starting some directx programs and keeping those programs
- from displaying properly. Added "save settings" to ensure that settings are saved. In some
- cases they were not being saved when the user exited the program but hopefully that has all been
- dealt with.
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- February 9 1998
- V1.1
- Added ability to recognize that the wallpaper has changed and will update
- itself automatically.
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- January 25, 1998
- Version 1.0 - First version. The program isn't meant to do anything but
- hide the icons.
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- Patrick Dugan
- patrickd@getonthe.net or patrickd@usti.com
- http://208.142.5.166/pdhome.html
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