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- Cloak - the icon tidier from lorry back software
-
- If you are like lots of other Windows users your desktop is full of useless icons
- just getting in the way - neko, winroach, after dark, etc. etc. What cloak does
- is hides all the icons you tell it too hide - simple. You can get them back if you
- they are in the system menu of cloak.
- Cloak will remember which icons you want hidden so it will always clean up your
- desktop.
-
- How to install? - put cloak.exe in your favorite utilities directory.
-
- How to run it? - run it - or put it in your startup group - this is the obvious
- thing to do.
-
- How to use it?
-
- first use
- 1) choose "hide" from the menu - the cursor now changes to a cloak
- 2) move the cloak over the icon you want hiding and click - the icon disappears
- 3) repeat for all the icons you want to get rid of.
- 4) choose "save setup" from the menu - cloak will now remeber to hide these same
- icons in the future.
- (pressing ESC or clicking anywhere but an icon will get the cursor back)
-
- The hidden icons are in the "icons" sub-menu. Choose the icon and the application
- be restored. The icon will not be re-hidden until you say so.
-
- Any icons that joined the party late (cloak wakes up a few times after being
- started to catch most latecomers) or that have been put back on the desktop can
- be re-hidden by choosing "rehide" from the menu. Right clicking on the cloak
- icon has the same effect.
-
- Thats it.
-
- All bugs, accolades, donations of country houses etc. to pmoore@uk03.bull.co.uk
-
- restrictions at present:
-
- 1) Dont hide DOS apps - some testers said that it causes terminal death syndrome.
- I was unable to reproduce this but I guess there is a bug in there somewhere
-
- 2) Cloak remembers the class name of the icons to keep hidden - this means it
- will hide all icons with that class name. In general this is OK but it does
- mean that VB applications get hit hard since they all have the same class
- name "THUNDERFORM".
-
- 3) If cloak falls over then your icons depart to the twilight zone - the applications
- are still there but the icons remain hidden. This of course never happens.
-
- 4) It is not possible to hide the cloak icon