How to Hide All Desktop Icons and Gadgets

Ever now and then I see people using a beautiful landscape as a background for their computers, but they have so many icons and gadgets on top of it that you can barely see the beauty of the landscape at all.

I truly believe that you must have your work area clean and organized for your ideas to flow better.

Thinking of that, I like to hide all icons and keep only a few functional gadgets on the Desktop, so I can actually see and appreciate the Background showing.

Please note that hiding the Desktop Icons and Gadgets does not delete them.

Here is how you can very easily do it also. I am using Windows 7.

ICONS

To hide all icons:

1. Right click the Desktop
2. Go to View
3. Uncheck the Show Desktop Icons option
4. Done

Here is how you can show all your icons again :

1. Right click the Desktop
2. Go to View
3. Check the Show Desktop Icons option
4. Done

As you can see, you can do the same for the Gadgets:

1. Right click the Desktop
2. Go to View
3. Uncheck the Show Desktop Gadgets option
4. Done

And bring all Gadgets back:

1. Right click the Desktop
2. Go to View
3. Check the Show Desktop Gadgets option
4. Done

NOTE

If you prefer you can also resize the icons:

1. Right click the Desktop
2. Go to View
3. Select the option you prefer, Large Icons, Medium Icons or Small Icons
4. Done

These are very simple and nice features that many people don't even think about but that makes a difference at the end of the day when you don't have all of that polluted and dense populated Desktop.

There is a trick if you want to hide all Icons and still want easy access to the Recycle Bin. Take a look here: How to Add the Recycle Bin to the Taskbar & Systray

I hope you enjoyed it! Now you can really appreciate the Background showing on your Desktop!

Thanks for reading and best wishes to all...

More Interesting Hubs by This Author

Please Vote and Share this Article with Your Friends