How to lock desktop icons in windows OS
Hi,
We are using an in-house developed ERP in our organization using oracle. Presently we are installing oracle both front end and back end and creating an icon in desktop. This icon contains path of application and database (schema user name and password)
How can I hide this info like path and schema name and password. Is there any way I can encript these details, please let us know
Sekar Chinnakannu
Right click on the Desktop and select Arrange Icons By> and unselect show desktop icons.
ASKER
Hello
you uderstood my requirement wrongly
i dont want to hide all icons. I want to hide only short cut path of desktop Icon or some kind of encryption
you uderstood my requirement wrongly
i dont want to hide all icons. I want to hide only short cut path of desktop Icon or some kind of encryption
If obfuscation is enough you could try modifying the registry. The following can be saved as a .reg file and imported:
Refresh your desktop and your obfuscated shortcut will appear.
Obviously you'll want to define your own app name, description, icon and command parameters.
The hard part is creating the unique GUID. In this case I just used a GUID I knew didn't exist on my machine: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}]
@="Your App Name"
"InfoTip"="Nice description of your app"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\SHELL32.dll,46"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\InProcServer32]
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\Shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\Shell\Open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\Shell\Open\command]
@="\"C:\\Windows\\Notepad.exe\" \"C:\\ParameterExample.txt\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000FFFF}]
@="Your App Name"Refresh your desktop and your obfuscated shortcut will appear.
Obviously you'll want to define your own app name, description, icon and command parameters.
The hard part is creating the unique GUID. In this case I just used a GUID I knew didn't exist on my machine: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0
It seems there are several options available: http://www.somacon.com/p113.php
I'd probably go with uuidgen.exe from Microsoft's Platform SDK although if you don't already have it the VBScript would be my second choice.
I'd probably go with uuidgen.exe from Microsoft's Platform SDK although if you don't already have it the VBScript would be my second choice.
ASKER
hi
thanks for your update, let me check this out and will come back to you soon
thanks for your update, let me check this out and will come back to you soon
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ASKER
hi
thanks a lot for your updates
it all seems to be very complicated and requires a lots of hardwork
is there any simple way i can do this task, please advise
thanks a lot for your updates
it all seems to be very complicated and requires a lots of hardwork
is there any simple way i can do this task, please advise
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