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Windows Miscellaneous Desktop Tip & Tricks Collection

1. Easy Access to Folders from the Toolbar 
    
2. Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut 
    
3. Creating 3D Window Effect 
    
4. Full Window Drag ( Without Plus! ) 
    
5. Getting Screen Shots 
    
6. Increasing the Size of the Scroll Bar 
    
7. Adding Send To the Recycle Bin 
    
8. Adding AnyFolder and Mail to SendTo 
    
9. Easier User Interface 
    
10. Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time 
     
11. Adding Drives to the SendTo List 
     
12. Adding a Protected Briefcase 
     
13. How to make the task bar autohide 
     
14. Closing Nested Folders 
     
15. Moving and Resizing the Taskbar 
     
16. Correcting Corrupted Fonts 
     
17. Creating document scraps 
     
18. Turing off Windows Animation
     
19. Using old Window's Groups
     
20. Changing the My Computer or Recycle Bin icons
     
21. Removing the Tildes in filenames
     

Removing shortcut arrows

One problem when removing shortcut arrows is that
if you delete a desktop item, it will remove it.
If it is a shortcut it will just remove the icon.
If it is not a shortcut, then it will remove the program.
Having the little icon arrow is one way to tell the difference

Changing the Desktop and Explorer Folder Icons

The following steps will change the icon that is displayed as the default Folder icon.

1. Start the Registry Editor.
2. Search for "Shell Icons".
3. This will bring you to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / explorer / Shell Icons.
4. Double-click on the one has the value name of "3" in the right pane.
5. Type in the new icon you want to use.
6. If you have a DLL file specified, you need to count for the location of the particular icon you want to use, starting at 0.
7. To reset the icon cache, use a program such as Tweak with comes with the PowerToys from Microsoft.

Note: I haven't experimented with too many of the other icon changes possible.

Create a Control Panel menu directly below the Start Button

1. Click the Start Button once with your right mouse button. You should see a right-button menu (called a context menu because it offers different choices in different contexts).
2. You should see the items Open, Explore, and Find on the context menu. Click Explore with your left mouse button.
3. An Explorer file management window should open. A directory tree should appear in the left pane, with the right pane displaying the contents of the Start Menu folder.
4. Right-click any empty space within the right pane. A context menu should appear. Click New and then Folder.
5. The Explorer will create a highlighted icon called New Folder. Type in the following string, all on one line, replacing the words New Folder with this new line. You must type the period, the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the hexadecimal numbers exactly as shown. After the closing curly brace, press Enter.

   Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Other Folders can be added following the same instructions.

• Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
• Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
• Inbox.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
• Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
• Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• Desktop.{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
• Briefcase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
• Fonts.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}

Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows

1. Open REGEDIT.EXE
2. Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
3. Open the Key LNKFILE
4. Delete the value IsShortcut
5. Open the next Key PIFFILE
6. Delete the value IsShortcut
7. Restart the Win95