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How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

Written By Jitesh Kumar
Last Updated March 10, 2021
Posted In Windows 10

In this post, we will check about the easier way to Hide all Windows 10 desktop icons. The desktop is the user’s work area for their programs and a place where we all keeping files, documents, and anything that can be easily accessible, By hiding desktop icons helps IT Pro to prevent sharing unnecessary files, confidential information present at your desktop while mostly doing screen sharing activity. This is the most useful setting that allows to hide or show all desktop icons with a single click.

Here’s Windows 10 Desktop displaying all available icons.

How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way
How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

Let’s get started to hide icons Windows 10.

Hide All Desktop Icons

  • Right-click on your desktop, point to View, and then select Show desktop icons to uncheck.

Note: Hiding all the icons on your desktop doesn’t delete them, it just hides them until you choose to show them again. You can access these icons from %UserProfile%\Desktop directory.

How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way
How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

Windows will not display the desktop icons, That’s easy steps!

How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way
How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

Show All Desktop Icons

  • Right-click on your desktop, point to View, and then select Show desktop icons to check.
How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way
Show desktop icons – How to Hide All Windows 10 Desktop Icons | Easy Way

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  1. This is no single click (maybe you wrote that as CLICK BATE)! 1=click desktop 2=Navigate to hide show Icons 3= click hide show.

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