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HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:54 am
by Rudy5
Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Turn the Desktop Icons On or Off
If you've got loads of icons cluttering up your desktop, you might want a quick way to turn them off without using the context menu; here's a quick and easy way to make a shortcut key to turn them on or off.
Note: this article was originally written a couple of years ago, but we tested it out on Windows 8, 8.1, and even Windows 10 to verify that it works and figured that we'd update and publish it again.
Create a Shortcut to Toggle the Desktop Icons
The solution comes through a small utility written by one of the Desktop Sidebar programmers (an alternate sidebar with loads of modules). Just so we're clear, this utility does the same thing as a right-click on the desktop and toggling the "Show Desktop Icons" item.
Homepage: <
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows ... on-or-off/
Download:
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/up ... pIcons.zip
Status: Portable - no settings
Re: HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:39 pm
by freakazoid
Re: HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:13 am
by Llewelyn
https://freewaregenius.com/hidedesktop- ... gle-click/
The article at how-to-geek is gone but the downlod link works
Re: HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:54 am
by Midas
HowToGeek '
HideDesktopIcons.zip' file:
https://www.mirrored.to/files/0HUHERS1/ (don't allow any popup windows, may still require multiple clicks to view...).
Inner executable
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VT detection: 1/75
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Re: HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:53 am
by Llewelyn
Re: HideDesktopIcons
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:31 pm
by Andrew Lee
Voted. Thanks!