Desktop icon text

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Is there anyway to remove the text under destop icons? They are all very
easy to tell apart, i cant confuse ie with photoshop for example. I tried
renameing them to blank or space but that only works for 1 icon.
is this even possible?
 
jsnd said:
Is there anyway to remove the text under destop icons? They are all very
easy to tell apart, i cant confuse ie with photoshop for example. I
tried
renameing them to blank or space but that only works for 1 icon.
is this even possible?
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That's because each icon must have a name of it's own. To accomplish
what you want:
First icon, highlight the text, press ALT+255 or ALT+0160, press Enter and
confirm.
Second icon, highlight the text, press ALT+255 2 times or ALT+0160 2 times,
press Enter and confirm.
Third icon 3 times and so on and so on.

If you do this with a file icon that has an extension you will lose the
association and it won't open without re-associating it.

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Brian said:
That's because each icon must have a name of it's own. To accomplish
what you want:
First icon, highlight the text, press ALT+255 or ALT+0160, press Enter
and confirm.
Second icon, highlight the text, press ALT+255 2 times or ALT+0160 2
times, press Enter and confirm.
Third icon 3 times and so on and so on.

If you do this with a file icon that has an extension you will lose the
association and it won't open without re-associating it.
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I haven't tried this myself, but have you experimented
with the icon spacing? I recently increased mine so as
to see long texts, but I wonder if decreasing would leave
no room for the text at all.
 
Brian said:
HEY BUCKAROO, don't you have homework to finish!

Spacing the icons would have no effect since it's a folder/file naming
issue. You can not have same named folders/files in the same directory.
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I was addressing the _original_ question, of whether it
is possible to remove the text under desktop icons.
Making it invisible by not leaving room for it to be
displayed, if that's possible, would achieve the desired end
without naming problems having to be considered.
 
I said:
I was addressing the _original_ question, of whether it
is possible to remove the text under desktop icons.
Making it invisible by not leaving room for it to be
displayed, if that's possible, would achieve the desired end
without naming problems having to be considered.
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Ok, I stopped speculating and played with the icon spacing.
I was being lazy about this because a system restart is
needed to implement each change in icon spacing.

My idea doesn't work, in fact it makes things much worse.
If I reduce the vertical spacing drastically, say to 10,
the text appears _on_top_ of the picture, and it's the wrong
picture, namely that for the next icon down. A real mess.
 
Anthony said:
Ok, I stopped speculating and played with the icon spacing.
I was being lazy about this because a system restart is
needed to implement each change in icon spacing.

My idea doesn't work, in fact it makes things much worse.
If I reduce the vertical spacing drastically, say to 10,
the text appears _on_top_ of the picture, and it's the wrong
picture, namely that for the next icon down. A real mess.
Click to expand...
Here's something that _does_ work (suppressing the
text under icons). The icon font size can be set
to 1 (zero doesn't have the desired effect). Sizes
aren't offered in the drop-down menu that low, but
1 can be typed in. The text becomes unreadable,
and just looks like a varying-length dashed
underline that, to my eye, doesn't interfere with
just looking at the icon pictures.
 
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