Sometimes, the number of icons or shortcuts on the desktop can be overwhelmed. This not only looks messy but also makes certain apps harder to find.

One way to solve that is by carefully organizing icons based on their respective category. But if this still seems overwhelming to you, consider hiding all of the icons just to make the background picture clutter-free.

Here, you will learn how to hide desktop icons on Windows computers. It won’t delete them, so you can always resurface buried icons anytime you want to.

This simple practice could possibly improve the startup speed and responsiveness since there will be less information that needs to be loaded when the operating system is loaded. But perhaps it won’t be prevalent if you were using SSDs.