Remove Text from Icons

I would have to put this trick up near the top of my favorites list. With it you can prevent the text from appearing below icons on the desktop.

If you’re looking to clean up your desktop a bit this could be the perfect way:


1. Right-click on an icon, and choose the Rename option. Delete all of the text.

2. Hold down the Alt key and type 0160 (note: you shouldn’t see any text being typed). That will essentially make a space character the file name. Press Enter to save the results.

3. You can repeat this for several icons, but there is one catch. You probably know that you can’t have multiple icons in the same folder (or on the desktop) with the same name. To get around that for a second shortcut you can do Alt+0160 + Alt+0160.


That will essentially create two spaces for the filename, and for a third shortcut you could do Alt+0160 + Alt+0160 + Alt+0160. As you can see this would get tedious rather quickly, but for a handful of shortcuts it is pretty nice.