[jdl]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

Actually ASCII 160 is the code for a NBSP (Non-breaking space).
The correct code for a space is ASCII 32.

Very informative...

Do ANY of the space codes work to accomplish what the original poster, blackcell, wants to do? We've beat this thread to death with "stuff" and seem to have lost track of the problem. He wanted to have no text in his desktop icons using winME. Have we solved his problem? Is anyone with WinME participating in the discussion?

There are several other Alt codes which might work too...

Alt + 8204 and Alt + 8205 are possible candidates.

[ChuckE]

Until blackcell comes back, we'll not know if any other these posts helped. I just checked, his last posting was the one above.

Did anything, we've bantered about, work for him . . . ?

I also have a WinME workstation at work, and on Monday I'll try the Alt+255 character there, as well. I really don't doubt that it will work.

[JohnWill]

It's interesting that a different code works for XP and 98, but we seem to have a problem finding an ME user.

[hewee]

I think I will just keep my names.

But that one does work on 98.

[anglin_fool]

Kewl . . .

I use ME and thought I'd try it . . .

Alt + 0160 will take out the first one. When I tried the second icon, it didn't work unless I put a space and another Alt + 0160.

[ChuckE]

The reason it didn't work is because you already had one item on the desktop (or whatever location you were at) with that name. As I said, back in Msg#3, "Every icon has to have a unique name"

You could have name the 2nd item "Alt+0160 Alt+0160"
the third being "Alt+0160 Alt+0160 Alt+0160" etc.
or any combination of acceptable characters, just as long as you don't try to use the same name twice.

Trying to do so will result with the error message (in WinXP, your OS version may vary):
Cannot rename <whatever>: A file with the name you specified already exists. Specify a different file name.