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How To: Remove The Text From An Icon

Do you only want to have the icons on your desktop without that crappy text under them to give it a cool textless effect? This guide will 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….

For this hack 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 …

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

2) 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.

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

2) 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…

Theres a reason behind this, 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 ect..

NOTE: When you are typing the 255, you must use the 10-key keypad located on the right hand side of your keyboard. The ALT that you use doesn’t matter.

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