{"id":2135,"date":"2014-06-20T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2014-06-20T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:55:21","slug":"windows-quick-tip-how-to-hide-desktop-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/windows-quick-tip-how-to-hide-desktop-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Quick Tip &#8211; How to hide desktop icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned Windows could hide desktop icons after answering Help Desk tickets. I would get calls and emails from people saying, <strong>ALL OF MY FILES ARE GONE!!!<\/strong> When I would get to their desk, sure enough, their desktop would be empty. Completely empty.<\/p>\n<p>Now there are some people who keep a clean desktop, but even they have a couple of icons there. A folder or shortcut to something they often use. Or they&#8217;ve got a shortcut they&#8217;re unable to remove due to the lack of admin rights.<\/p>\n<p>There are also uses for hiding the desktop&#8217;s icons. When I want to record a screen cast or capture screenshots without the clutter of my desktop, I will hide the icons to give it a much cleaner look.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re trying to answer a help desk ticket, or simply want a clean desktop, it&#8217;s very simple to hide them.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hide-desktop-icons.gif?w=629\" alt=\"Hide desktop icons\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right click on your Desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Select View<\/li>\n<li>Under the drop down menu, uncheck <em>Show desktop icons<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Enjoy an empty desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To bring them back, repeat the first two steps and click <em>Show desktop icons<\/em> so there is a check mark next to them.<\/p>\n<p>And now you know how to hide Windows desktop icons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned Windows could hide desktop icons after answering Help Desk tickets. I would get calls and emails from people saying, ALL OF MY FILES ARE GONE!!! When I would get to their desk, sure enough, their desktop would be empty. Completely empty. Now there are some people who keep a clean desktop, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Windows Quick Tip - How to hide desktop icons","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,631,260,66],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-desktop","tag-icon","tag-quick-tip","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}