Batch file to remove icon from Desktop
A lot of icons are placed on the desktop of a computer in general; they are generated automatically by the system/the software you’ve installed or created manually by users for convenience. You may customize the icons to suit your habits. This post on MiniTool mainly focuses on how to remove icons from desktop when they are useless. Show Quick Navigation :
Desktop icon, also known as desktop shortcut, creates an easy way to access certain location/program/settings. You can open the page you want to visit directly by just clicking on the corresponding icon on desktop. The desktop icons on computer include 3 types generally:
The first two types are generated automatically while the last type is created manually by users for the sake of convenience. What if you find some desktop icons are not useful anymore? Obviously, you should remove icons from desktop manually. But do you know how to remove icons from desktop? In fact, there are several ways available for you to delete icon (or delete shortcut).
Tip: What to do if you have deleted a file by mistake while removing icons? Please get a reliable recovery tool and use it to recover the file without any delay! How to remove shortcuts from desktop when you find it is not useful anymore? There are 3 basic ways you can use to remove/delete an icon (or shortcut) on the desktop. Remove Icon from Desktop DirectlyThis is the most direct way to remove or delete a desktop icon on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and other systems. Step 1: look through all the icons placed on your desktop. Step 2: right click on the icon that you want to remove from desktop. Step 3: choose Delete from the pop-up context menu. Step 4: click on the Yes button when a window pops up to ask you Are you sure you want to move this shortcut to the Recycle Bin. You can also select the icon on your desktop and press Delete button on the keyboard to see the pop-up prompt window. As the prompt message shows, the desktop icon deleted by this way will be sent to the Recycle Bin kept there for a certain period of time. How to delete the desktop icon shortcut permanently? There are 3 ways to use. 1st way: delete icon from Recycle Bin.
Also, you can right click on it & choose Delete. 2nd way: empty the Recycle Bin.
3rd way: Shift Delete the icon.
In addition, you can make use of the Show desktop icons feature to hide/unhide all the icons on the desktop instead of deleting them.
To bring back the icons, you only need to repeat this process. Remove Desktop Icons in Desktop Folder
[SOLVED] Windows Explorer Needs To Be Restarted: Problem Fixed. Remove System Icons from DesktopYou may find there’s no Delete option after right clicking on some system related icons. In this situation, how can you delete the system icons?
That’s all about how to remove icons from desktop on Windows 10. (The steps to remove icons from desktop in other Windows systems are similar.)
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by rob miners · about 12 years, 6 months ago You will need two files and if you do it this way you will only have to modify delSC.txt for future use. Make sure that the text in delSC.txt has the double quotes surrounding it. Copy between the ——– and paste this into NotePad and save it as SCdel.cmd Save both files to C:\> and you can create a shortcut to the files to run or modify them. —————— set target=”C:\documents and settings” FOR /F ” tokens=* ” %%i in (delSC.txt) do del /s /q /f %target%\%%i —————— Contents of delSC.txt “t1.txt” “t2.txt” and so on……… eXample of the output: C:\>set target=”C:\documents and settings” C:\>FOR /F ” tokens=* ” %i in (delSC.txt) do del /s /q /f “C:\documents and settings”\%i C:\>del /s /q /f “C:\documents and settings”\”t2.txt” Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Administrator\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\All Users\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\black\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\blank\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\dave\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\jock\Desktop\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Rob\Cookies\t2.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Rob\Desktop\t2.txt C:\>del /s /q /f “C:\documents and settings”\”t1.txt” Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Administrator\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\All Users\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\black\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\blank\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\dave\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\jock\Desktop\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Rob\Cookies\T1.txt Deleted file – C:\documents and settings\Rob\Desktop\T1.txt C:\>pause Edit: modifed ws.txt to delSc.txt
by sadj2885 · about 12 years, 6 months ago Set scut=”C:\documents and settings” del /s /q /f %scut%\”shortcut 1.lnk” del /s /q /f %scut%\”shortcut 2.lnk” del /s /q /f %scut%\”shortcut 3.lnk” etc… And it worked fine.
by rob miners · about 12 years, 6 months ago |