For convenience, you may like to save files on your desktop. As time passes by, your desktop might be dotted with icons and it is hard to see your background image. Do you want to hide them? This post shows you “how to hide desktop icons Windows 10”. Scroll down to get the detailed tutorial.
Hide Desktop Icons Windows 10
You can find two tutorials in this part. One is to guide you on how to hide all desktop icons and the other one is how to hide an individual icon. Let’s start.
Hide All Desktop Icons on Windows 10
Steps to hide all desktop icons on Windows 10:
- Press Windows + D to go back to your desktop.
- Right-click the blank space on your desktop and then select the View option from the menu.
- Select the Show desktop icons option from the sub-menu. This will uncheck the option and hide all desktop icons.
All your desktop icons should be hidden.
To redisplay these desktop icons on Windows 10, you just need to make the Show desktop icons checked and they will get back.
Hide an Individual Icon on Windows 10
If you just want to hide an individual icon on your Windows 10 desktop, follow the tutorial below.
Step 1: Press Windows + D to go back to your desktop.
Step 2: Right-click the desktop icon you want to hide and then choose the Properties option.
Step 3: On the Properties window, switch to the General tab.
Step 4: Look at the Attribute section and check the box next to the Hidden setting.
Step 5: Click the Apply button and the OK button to save the change.
Go back to your desktop and see if the icon is hidden. If it just becomes translucent on your desktop like the following image shows, what you should continue doing is:
Step 6: Open File Explorer.
Step 7: Switch to the View tab, click the Show/hide section, and uncheck the Hidden items options
After these two steps, the icon should not be visible on your desktop. To show it again, you should check the Hidden items option in File Explorer, right-click the translucent icon to access its properties window, and uncheck the Hidden setting.
Have you hidden your desktop icons? If you want to delete your desktop icons permanently, you can refer to How to Remove Icons From Desktop Windows 10.
Bonus: How to Hide a Partition on Windows 10
Do you know how to hide your partition on Windows 10? You can hide a partition by removing its driver letter. Apart from this way, you can try the MiniTool Partition Wizard.
MiniTool Partition Wizard is a professional Windows-based partition manager, skilled in disk partitioning/formatting/wiping/cloning… Its Hide Partition feature can help you hide a partition in a few clicks.
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Steps to hide a partition via MiniTool Partition Wizard:
Step 1: Download the free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard by clicking the above button.
Step 2: Install the software and launch it to get its main interface.
Step 3: In the Disk Map, highlight the partition you want to hide and then choose the Hide Partition feature from the left pane.
Step 4: Click the Apply button to execute the pending task.
When the process ends, go to your File Explorer and you should find the selected partition is not displayed.
To unhide it, run MiniTool Partition Wizard again. Highlight the partition, choose the Unhide Partition feature, and click the Apply button.
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