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.

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.

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

Show All Desktop Icons
- Right-click on your desktop, point to View, and then select Show desktop icons to check.

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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.
You got it man!