You can add icons to your desktop in Windows 10 and more easily access system folders or apps. When you add icons to your desktop, you create shortcuts to folders or programs such as your Recycle Bin ...

Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

You can change nearly any desktop icon on both Mac and PC. To change desktop icons on a Mac, open the "Get Info" menu and paste in the picture you want to use. On a PC you'll need to make a .ICO file, ...

While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked cleaner.

You may often notice blank icons on your desktop or folders or incorrect images on your Windows 11 device. These are broken icons in Windows 11/10, and we have just the right solutions for you to fix ...

Windows 11 24H2 users, it is time for this month's non-security update. KB5060829 is here, and it has some long-requested taskbar updates, a new tool for transferring files between PCs, and a hefty ...

Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot, ...

Fences 2 is well worth the money: It makes the desktop useful again. I have no icons on my desktop. I have two wide-screen monitors totaling almost 4,000 horizontal pixels, and not a single icon— ...

It appears that Microsoft is digging deep to make sure that Windows 10 looks modern across the board. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

When you click on that red and white envelope icon to access your email, you don’t think “this is an envelope, which means mail.” Instead, your brain jumps immediately to “Gmail.” Good icons like ...

Once upon a time, our desktops were a point of pride. How did you customize yours? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I barely see ...