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How to Show and Hide Desktop Application Icons in Windows 8

Desktop context menu options with additional settings highlighted.

In this Windows 8 tutorial, you will learn how to show and hide desktop application icons. The benefit of this is it allows you to quickly hide desktop icons and show them again when you need to have access via desktop.

Also, if you have a business meeting it could be helpful to hide icons to present a professional appearance. Or, if your little one has a tendency to re-arrange your icons you can prevent that from happening by hiding the icons on the desktop.

Go to Desktop View.
Simple as one, two, three, right-click on desktop and select hide icons its that easy as shown in the video tutorial.

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