On WinXP if you right click the desktop, and select View, and select ‘Show Desktop Icons’, the icons are hidden.
Do you know the reg key that stores this value?
And maybe more important, how did you know that or find the value?
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On WinXP if you right click the desktop, and select View, and select ‘Show Desktop Icons’, the icons are hidden.
Do you know the reg key that stores this value?
And maybe more important, how did you know that or find the value?
Process Monitor from Windows Sysinternals is a great tool for answering questions like this. You can even Run Process Monitor from live.sysinternals.com.
Set it up to monitor Operation
isRegSetValue, then make the change through the UI and watch what Registry keys get updated.If you are getting too much noise from your filter selections, you can add additional filters for Process Name
is(in this case) explorer.exe and/or a Pathcontains(in this case) hide.Process Monitor may seem like an IT-only tool, but it is also a developers’ tool. It is an excellent way to ensure Registry keys are being updated, DLLs are being loaded, configuration files are being read and/or processes are being spawned.