Ubuntu's DING extension adds new keyboard shortcuts for desktop icon selection, including multi-select, Ctrl+Space toggle, ...

Some of you have seen green check marks on your desktop files, folders, and some icons. These check marks appear at the bottom left side of files, folders, and shortcut icons placed on the desktop ...

In XP, you can just uncheck Show Desktop Icons under Arrange Icons By submenu from the desktop context menu. In 2K, I think it may hide them if you enable Web View.

If you don't disable it manually, most will add a new desktop icon by default. After a few years of this, you'll find that your desktop has become a cluttered catastrophe of icons, usually not ...

As user I feel disappointed that I cannot use the desktop to place icons and shortcuts that make my life easier, like in any other Operating System with a desktop. I never use desktop icons.

If you're sure you need the files, folders, and shortcuts you've accumulated on the desktop, you can move them elsewhere by dragging and dropping them into other folders (or using the Ctrl+X/Cmd+X ...

If you find that the Microsoft Edge browser icon keeps reappearing on your desktop, then this post will show you how you can stop Edge from creating a desktop shortcut in Windows 11.

Now select from the Quick Launch toolbar any shortcut icons you want in the Desktop toolbar. The most important one is the Show Desktop icon, which looks like a pad and pencil. Hold down the left ...

Right-click the icon and choose Create Shortcut. Vista will tell you that you can’t create a shortcut here, but you coulld have one on the desktop instead. Click Yes.