Show Computer Icons on the Desktop in Windows 8

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Video: Show Computer Icons on the Desktop in Windows 8

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   Right-click on an empty space on the desktop

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   Click "Personalize"

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   Click "Change desktop icons" on the left side of the window

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   The "Desktop Icon Settings" menu will open, and we will need to choose the icons that we want to see.

   

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   Click the white boxes next to the icons that will be shown

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   In our case, we are going to select "Computer".

   

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   Click "OK"

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6. 6
   Look at the upper-left corner of the desktop

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   Any icons we just selected now appear here. In our case, we now have "This PC".

   

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   Close the Personalization window by clicking the "X" in the top right corner

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   This concludes our tutorial on how to show computer icons on Windows 8 computers

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