Hide Desktop Icons (Win7 x64)

[ken82m]

I've found plenty of methods to toggle desktop icon visibility do this on the au3 forum and loads of them on google.

But nothing I've tried has worked except right clicking on the desktop>view>show desktop icons.

I'd like to list what i've tried for you but the list is endless, however I tried every script that came.

But here are the last three autoit solutions I've found.

Thanks,

Kenny

WinSetState("Program Manager", "", @SW_HIDE)

#include <GUIListView.au3>
$h = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Progman]")
$hwnd = ControlGetHandle($h,"","SysListView321")
_GUICtrlListView_SetView($hwnd,3)

MsgBox(0, "Warning", "Now we hide desktop icons")
_ShowHideIcons(@SW_HIDE)

MsgBox(0, "Warning", "Now we show desktop icons")
_ShowHideIcons(@SW_SHOW)

Func _ShowHideIcons($sState)
    Local $hParent = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")
    Local $hListView = ControlGetHandle($hParent, "", "SysListView321")

    WinSetState($hListView, "", $sState)
EndFunc

[Yashied]

DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)
Sleep(2000)
DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)

Edited August 31, 2010 by Yashied

[wakillon]

Another one...

#Include <WinAPI.au3>

_ShowDesktopIcons ( 0 ) ; Hide
Sleep ( 3000 )
_ShowDesktopIcons ( 1 ) ; Show


Func _ShowDesktopIcons ( $_Show )
    _WinAPI_PostMessage ( ControlGetHandle ( WinGetHandle ( '[CLASS:Progman]' ), '', '[CLASSNN:SHELLDLL_DefView1]' ), 0x00111, 0x7402, $_Show )
EndFunc

Edited August 31, 2010 by wakillon

[ken82m]

cool, thanks

appreciate it.

-Kenny

[Yashied]

Another one...

#Include <WinAPI.au3>

_ShowDesktopIcons ( 0 ) ; Hide
Sleep ( 3000 )
_ShowDesktopIcons ( 1 ) ; Show


Func _ShowDesktopIcons ( $_Show )
    _WinAPI_PostMessage ( ControlGetHandle ( WinGetHandle ( '[CLASS:Progman]' ), '', '[CLASSNN:SHELLDLL_DefView1]' ), 0x00111, 0x7402, $_Show )
EndFunc

This is wrong. What is $ _Show? This parameter is not used by WM_COMMAND (0x0111) and must be set to 0.

[Yashied]

In addition.

_ToggleDesktopIcon()
ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)
Sleep(2000)
_ToggleDesktopIcon()
ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)

Func _IsDesktopIconShow()
    Return (BitAND(WinGetState(ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SysListView32]')), 2) = 2)
EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShow

Func _ToggleDesktopIcon()
    DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)
EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShow

Edited August 31, 2010 by Yashied

[Cyri]

In addition.

_ToggleDesktopIcon()
ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)
Sleep(2000)
_ToggleDesktopIcon()
ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)

Func _IsDesktopIconShow()
    Return (BitAND(WinGetState(ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SysListView32]')), 2) = 2)
EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShow

Func _ToggleDesktopIcon()
    DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)
EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShow

The above method plus a new others I've found on the forums work great in Windows XP but I can't get any of them to work on Windows 7. Whether with run as admin or not they don't work. Any ideas?

[Hansio]

DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)Sleep(2000)DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)

In addition.

_ToggleDesktopIcon()ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)Sleep(2000)_ToggleDesktopIcon()ConsoleWrite('Show desktop icons: ' & _IsDesktopIconShow() & @CR)Func _IsDesktopIconShow()  Return (BitAND(WinGetState(ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SysListView32]')), 2) = 2)EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShowFunc _ToggleDesktopIcon()  DllCall('user32.dll', 'lresult', 'SendMessage', 'hwnd', ControlGetHandle('[CLASS:Progman]', '', '[CLASS:SHELLDLL_DefView]'), 'uint', 0x0111, 'wparam', 29698, 'lparam', 0)EndFunc   ;==>_IsDesktopIconShow

This works fine under W7 x64 but I have noticed that the script must run once after Windows has been restarted. So the script works only the second time. Does anyone have a solution to it?