Hide Internet Explorer icon on desktop.

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This setting lets you to hide the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop.

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Description:
You have a choice to display the desired standard icons on the desktop. If you dont use internet explorer as your default browser, you can hide the internet explorer icon from desktop. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed at serial number 1 to check the internet explorer version. Check the string value name ie and its data value should correspond to 6.0 or above. Now, navigate to the registry path listed at serial number 2 and search for the key {fbf23b42-e3f0-101b-8488-00aa003e56f8}. If found right-click to delete it. Then, search the registry path listed at serial number 3 and 4 for hkey_current_user and hkey_local_machine and create a dword value nointerneticon, if this value does not exist. Right-click on it and modify the value data to 1. Finally, navigate to the registry path at serial number 5 and check for the dword value name "attributes", create if not existing. Right-click on it and modify the value data "100024" to hide the icon. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.

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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\] key, right-click and click on "Modify".

Fourth, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}] key, right-click and click on "Delete".

Fifth, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click on the "NoInternetIcon" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Sixth, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Seventh, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click on the "NoInternetIcon" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Eighth, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Ninth, go to the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\ShellFolder\] key, right-click on the "Attributes" DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Finally, enter the value "100024" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

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Registry Entries

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Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\]
Location: Local Machine
Value Name: IE
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Action Type: View Information

Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\]
Location: Local Machine
Value Name: {FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}
Data Type: Key
Action Type: Deleted

Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
Location: Current User
Value Name: NoInternetIcon
Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
Enabled Value: 1
Disabled Value: 0
Action Type: Modified

Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
Location: Local Machine
Value Name: NoInternetIcon
Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
Enabled Value: 1
Disabled Value: 0
Action Type: Modified

Path: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\ShellFolder\]
Location: Root
Value Name: Attributes
Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
Enabled Value: 100024
Disabled Value: 24
Action Type: Modified

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