Removing Macintosh HD Icon

[The_Man]

Hey, I was just cleaning up my iBook's desktop and I thought it would look good to have no icons at all. So I tried to remove my HD icon and I couldn't figure it out? Does anyone know how to do this

(I already searched the subject and couldnt find anything, please send me a link if there already is another thread)

 

[PlaceofDis]

open up the Finder Preferences and you can deselect "show HDs" in there.

 

[Blue Velvet]

I never have the HD icon on my desktop here at home or at work. Can't see the point of wanting to dump stuff in there outside the User's folder or access files by even going there... it's a mystery (to me) why it's even there as default.

 

[gman71882]

Press command–, (comma) to open up Finder Prefs.
options are there for viewing what you want.

 

[funkychunkz]

If you normally have alot of files on your desktop and you don't want to have to organize them, then type this into the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop No

killall Finder

(to restart it)

and to show the files again:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop Yes

and restart the finder again

Now normally I'd tell you how to make a script out of this...but I'm too lazy to help you be lazy.

EDIT: No=Yes___small difference...

 

[wrldwzrd89]

If you normally have alot of files on your desktop and you don't want to have to organize them, then type this into the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop No

killall Finder

(to restart it)

and to show the files again:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop No

and restart the finder again

Now normally I'd tell you how to make a script out of this...but I'm too lazy to help you be lazy.

Err, shouldn't that second no be a yes?

Thanks for the info, though.