Hiding all desktop icons on a Mac
In Snow Leopard, there is a new command you can use to hide all of the icons on your Desktop. This command just keeps the icons from being shown on the desktop, the files are still all there but you then need to use a Finder window to get to them. If you're doing a presentation or something and you don't want everyone to see what's on your desktop, you can run this command and then reverse it once you are done.
To run the command, you need to open the Terminal application. This app can be found in Applications -> Utilities.
One the terminal app is running, run these two commands on the comand line:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
killall Finder
Once the commands are run, your desktop should re-draw and all of the icons will be gone.
To get the icons back, repeat the process, but change the "false" in the first command to a true.
To run the command, you need to open the Terminal application. This app can be found in Applications -> Utilities.
One the terminal app is running, run these two commands on the comand line:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
killall Finder
Once the commands are run, your desktop should re-draw and all of the icons will be gone.
To get the icons back, repeat the process, but change the "false" in the first command to a true.
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| Categories: | Mac Desktop Snow Leopard |
| Added: | on Sep 28, 2009 at 7:01 am |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
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