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How to programmatically toggle the visibilty of the desktop icons

5 Jan, 2012  2 Comments

The following code will toggle the visibility of the desktop icons, and will update the checkmark in the menu when you right click the desktop.

HWND GetDesktopHWND()
{
  HWND hProgman = FindWindow(_T("Progman"), 0);
  if (hProgman)
    return FindWindowEx(hProgman, 0, _T("SHELLDLL_DefView"), 0);

  return NULL;
}

void ToggleDesktopIcons()
{
  HWND hWndDesktop = GetDesktopHWND();
  if (hWndDesktop)
    SendMessage(hWndDesktop, WM_COMMAND, 0x7402, 0); 
}
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