Remove The Text From An Icon

Are you very good with figuring out what program corresponds to what icon? If so, you may be interested in this guide. This guide with show you how to remove the titles of the various icons. You may be thinking that it is very easy to remove the titles. Probably your first thought would be to rename the icon and make a blank name. Well, that doesn’t work, if you don’t believe me try it out for yourself and see….

What happens when you try to rename the icon to a blank name? It simply reverts back to the previous name.

For this trick to work, we need to make sure that File and Folder Settings has the Show File Extensions for known File Types Enabled. This is the default setting in XP, so if you have not made any changes it should be set properly. If you are not sure, then check. Here is how …

Click Start, then My Computer. Click on Tools then Folder Options.

On the View tab check mark Hide Extensions For Known File Types then Click Apply

Ok, now that we have that set...Here is the trick to removing the icon title and having a Blank Text untitled icon

First, right click on the icon that you want to remove it’s title, then go to Rename

Now, what you need to do, is hold the ALT button down. With the ALT button held down, and using the keypad type 255 then release the ALT button and hit enter, and voila you now have a untitled icon.

This trick will work only for icon, if you are creating multiple Blank Text icons then you will need to name them like this:

• For 1 Blank Text Icon: ALT + 255 (release ALT)
• For 2 Blank Text Icons: ALT + 255 (release ALT) ALT + 255 (release ALT)
• For 3 Blank Text Icons: ALT + 255 (release ALT) ALT + 255 (release ALT) ALT + 255 (release ALT)
• And so on…

The reason we need to do this is because part of Windows XP rules state that you cannot have a file/folder/shortcut with the same name in the same folder. To get around this restriction, we simply name the first icon with 1 blank space, the second icon with 2 blank spaces, the third with 3 blank spaces and so on.

Here is the result
BEFORE:

AFTER:

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Disable a user from logging off Windows

In order to make sure that a user always shuts down the Windows instead of logging off, you can disable the logging off options from the Windows. By disabling the logging off options, a user can either switch the user, or will have to shut down the system. He/she will not be able to log off the system, but will be able to shutdown the system.

In order to remove the logging off option from the Window, you'll have to remove the "Log Off" from the start menu and from the Task Manager as well.

1. Remove Log Off option from Task Manager

In order to remove the "log off " menu option from the Task Manager's menu, do as follows:

1. Open Group Policy Editor (Start->Run->"gpedit.msc")
2. On the left go to, User Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Ctrl+Alt+Del Options.
3. On the right, Enable this setting "Remove Logoff". (see figure below)

This setting does not let the user log off the system by using any method, including programs run from the command line, such as scripts. It also disables or removes all menu items and buttons that log the user off the system except from the Start Menu.

2. Remove Log Off from the Start Menu

To remove the log off button from the Start Menu, do as follows:

1. Open Group Policy Editor (Start->Run->"gpedit.msc")
2. On the left go to, User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Start Menu and Taskbar.
3. On the right, Enable this setting "Remove Logoff on the Start Menu". (see figure below)

If you enable this setting, the Log Off item does not appear in the Start menu. This setting also removes the Display Logoff item from Start Menu Options. As a result, users cannot restore the Log Off item to the Start Menu.


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Disable Highlight for Newly Installed Programs

Are you tired of looking at that annoying little window which pop up to tell you that a new program is installed? And if it gets in the way whenever you try to log off or shut down the system, then you can turn it off completely.

To stop it from popping up every time you install a new application, do this:

1. Go to Task Bar's properties. (Right click the Task Bar and click Properties from the menu)
2. Click on the Start Menu tab.
3. Click on Customize.
4. Click on the Advanced tab.
5. Uncheck the setting "Highlight the newly installed programs".
6. Click Ok and then click OK again.

Now, that annoying pop up is gone until you revert back the setting.

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Copy from Command Prompt & paste to Clipboard EASILY

It's a pain if you need to copy some text from the Windows XP command prompt and save it in clipboard or any other text editor such as Notepad. You'll need to use the command prompt system menu's edit menu and use the mark and copy commands.

A better alternative is to use the clip command utility available from Windows Server 2003. This command line utility also works in Windows XP Pro. All you need to do is copy the clip.EXE from Windows\System32 folder from Windows 2003 system and paste it in Windows\System32 folder.

What if you don't have access to Windows 2003 system? In that case you can download the clip.EXE from here.

Clip.EXE Usage

In order to use you can use the pipe (|) from the command line and clip command. For example, If you want to copy the folder listing into the clipboard, simply type

dir | clip

in the command line and the folder listing will be copied to the clipboard. Now all you got to do is paste in it Notepad or anywhere else. Sweet and Simple.

Note: It also works in Windows XP Home & Windows Vista (Business).

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