Hide All of the Icons on Desktop in Windows 10

Edited by Lukward Thomason, VisiHow, Eng

Hi! You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to hide all of the icons on the desktop on Windows 10 computers. In this video, we have two icons: "This PC" and "Recycle Bin".

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Steps

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    If we want to disable icons on the desktop overall, we need simply to right-click an empty space on the desktop
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    Then, we click "View"
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  3. 3
    We uncheck "Show desktop icons"
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    Once we've done it, no icons will be displayed on the desktop.
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    To revert back to seeing all of the icons, we need to do the same thing
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    we right-click the desktop.
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    Then, we click "View"
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    Then, we check "Show desktop icons"
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This concludes our tutorial on how to hide all of the icons on the desktop on Windows 10 computers. Thank you for watching VisiHow! If you have any other comments or questions, please leave them in the space below.

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Recent edits by: VisiHow, Lukward Thomason

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