Hide Icon Text in your Windows 7 Desktop

By just looking at the icon in your Windows 7 desktop, it’s already obvious what’s that application is, without reading the text below.  The best example for this is your Recycle Bin icon which is a regular resident of your desktop since the birth of Windows 7’s ancestor the Windows 95.  So why not remove the the phrase “Recycle Bin” below the Recycle Bin icon since it’s already obvious that upon seeing that icon you already know that it’s the Recycle Bin.

Here’s how:

Right click your Recycle Bin icon then click Rename. Now on your keyboard press down the Alt key and type 255 on your keypad  (Note:  For this thing to work, you have to use the numeric keypad on the far right of your keyboard and be sure to turn on NumLock.)

What is Alt+255 by the way?  Well Alt+255 in the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) table is a blank character.   So in reality you are just renaming the shortcut with a blank character.

Now to rename a second icon, for example the Internet Explorer shortcut you just have to press Alt+255 twice.  AS for the third, do it three times and so fort and son on…The idea is, you cannot have two icons with the same number of blank character.

Take a look a the picture below,  you will have a nameless icon! Isn’t that sweet!?! :)