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| IG-88:
After doing some searchin' on the web I found a quick and easy way to hide the desktop icons in WIN98 that are not deletable without using TweakUI. I haven't tried this in 2K or XP yet but I will. This is a registry hack so take it easy.... Go to Start > Run, type in "regedit" then Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Policies \ Explorer From the menu select Edit > New > DWORD value Name it NoDesktop Double-click this entry and give it the value 1 Close the registry editor and reboot your computer To restore the Icons on the desktop, you have to change the value of the NoDesktop Key to 0. It worked like a champ and took about 2 minutes. This should help any of you that are using Mame32 & it's FE alone to hide some of that "Windows" look. |
| IG-88:
Well, I just tried this on my 2k machine and it works fine. I'm guessing it will work on XP too but I'll check tomorrow. I should also say that if you want some of your desktop icons available but not seen ( like "my computer" or the "recycle bin" ) you and just drag them onto/into the "Start" button before performing the reg hack. |
| hsr:
Another Win98 option to hide the desktop is to not use it all. In c:\windows, resides your system.ini file. You can edit this file to have the line that reads: shell=explorer.exe to shell=mame32.exe (or really any other executable). In my case, the computer boots directly into Mala with shell=mala.exe. I saved the modified system.ini as system.mla (for Mala) and retained a copy of the original un-modified system.ini as system.win I made a bootable floppy, and copied system.win and system.mla to it. Then made two batch files also stored on the floppy. mala.bat (which contains) copy system.mla c:\windows\system.ini and win.bat (which contains) copy system.win c:\windows\system.ini I put the floppy in the drive of the computer inside my cabinet. Ran mala.bat from a: then reboot from the hard disc. This launches directly into Mala. If I need to do any maintenance, I can just boot from the floppy and run win.bat from a: then reboot from the hard disc. This will boot me back in Windows98. I'm going to play with your method IG-88 and see which I like better and/or which one leaves more RAM available. Thanks for the tip. |
| hsr:
--- Quote from: hsr on December 30, 2006, 11:24:37 pm ---You can edit this file to have the line that reads: shell=explorer.exe to shell=mame32.exe (or really any other executable). --- End quote --- A quick note on this: The executable and supporting files (like mame32.exe, etc) or a copy of, need to reside in windows directory for this to work. |
| WareWolF:
Add mame to your path and it should run without having to be copied into you windows directory. Just put Path=%path%;c:\mame32 in your autoexec.bat |
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