There are many reasons you might want to hide the icons on your system.You may have Apps on your system that you use for your business or you may be sharing your computer with friends or family and want to limit the usage in a certain way using an app or maybe you don’t want them to get access to some apps. Some of those apps are so important to you because you use those app to do jobs that pays your bills and you can’t afford to loose it or get it uninstalled from someone who doesn’t have any knowledge about Computing.
You may also decide to hide your system icons maybe because of the way they uses up more memory. If there are many icons visible, then that uses more memory which may have an impact on performance since there will be less free memory available to programs.
You may aslo don’t like the way the icons are just too much on your desktop and it will be difficult to look out for a particular icon.
If you’re in any of these categories or you just feel like knowing how to hide it, then you’re in the right place and this article if for you.
To hide icons in windows is very easy and straightforward. There are two things you can decide to hide,
1. All icons (Your own icon and system icons)
2. System icons which is the “Recycle bin” and “This PC”
How to hide all icons
1. Go go your desktop, or if you’re using any app at the moment, just click on “Show Desktop” button at the bottom right corner of your screen.
2. Right click on your desktop environment and click on “View“
3. There will be a menu that will come out immediately you click on View. Out of the options that comes out, you will see “Show Desktop Icons” which is already checked by default and that’s why you see all icons displaying on your desktop.
4. Uncheck the “Show Desktop Icons” to hide the Icons.
N.B if you want it to show again, just follow the steps and “Check” the “Show Desktop Icons” , the icons will come back to your desktop
How to hide system Icons
1. Also from the desktop, right click and select “Personalise” from the menu.
2. This will bring out the Settings menu. Go to the “Themes” sub menu, then scroll down till you see a “Related Settings” heading.
3. Select the “Desktop icon settings” option from underneath that heading.
4. Automatically, another window like and options will open on the desktop. From here you can simply check or uncheck the system icons you wish to appear on your desktop.
5. Once you’re done, click on “OK” to save your settings.
Then,you will see the update on the desktop. The unwanted icons will disappear leaving the icons you wish to show on your desktop.
