Sunday, December 16, 2007

How to Hide Desktop Icons

Requirement: Windows XP
Level: Beginner

This is a commonly asked question, but actually to accomplish it is very easy. Just go to your desktop, right click, go to arrange icons by-> and uncheck the show desktop icons. There, your desktop icons is hidden. This is useful if you like to have a clean desktop and less icons to block that beautiful wallpaper of yours. But by doing so, you might find it troublesome to access certain shortcuts.

Therefore, I'm going to show you a way to achieve the clean desktop without compromising on the convenience of having shortcuts. That is by having a toolbar. To do this, first just drag any one of your folders to the top of the screen. If done correctly, a toolbar should appear. Right click on the toolbar, and you can see the various settings to configure. You can auto-hide it, add additional toolbars, set the size, and lots more. Here's a toolbar for my desktop.



It's a little small, but you should see the line of toolbar at the top of the screen, and the black bar on the bottom is my windows toolbar. All the icons that I hid is displayed on the toolbar I made, so I do not have to compromise on the lack of convenience. You can display your wallpaper fully with the glory it deserves.

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