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Add hide-desktop-icon-labels mod#4427

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Add hide-desktop-icon-labels mod#4427
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Hides text labels under Windows desktop icons without renaming items. Optionally shows caption on mouse hover.

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m417z commented Jun 15, 2026

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Note: This review was done by Claude, and then refined manually. Due to the amount of submissions, doing a fully manual review for each pull request is no longer feasible. Thank you for understanding.


Substantial overlap with an existing mod — hide-desktop-icon-text. There is already a merged mod that hides desktop icon labels in explorer.exe by intercepting the desktop SysListView32 paint: mods/hide-desktop-icon-text.wh.cpp ("Hide Desktop Icon Text and Shortcut Arrows", by a different author). The core feature is the same. The differences I can see are:

  • This mod hides all labels; the existing one keeps folder names.
  • This mod adds an optional hover caption; the existing one adds shortcut-arrow removal instead.

The project's strong, frequently-stated preference is to extend an existing mod (add an option / PR the original author's repo) rather than merge a near-duplicate, because duplicates fragment the catalog and confuse users. Please state explicitly how this is meant to differ, and consider whether "hide all labels" and "hover caption" would be better as options added to hide-desktop-icon-text.

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