What's up guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and welcome to another exciting Tech Tip Tuesday
and today is all about managing your desktop icons.
So let's get into it.
Alright so today is all about managing your desktop icons, I know but it's super simple.
So on my desktop I'm going to right click on my start menu go to run.
I'm going to type in WINVER hit OK.
And I'm doing everything within a Windows 10 build 19619 right.
And from there, I'm going to press OK and this is the desktop.
Alright, So on the desktop.
We have a lot of folders and icons for now you see a bunch of shortcuts.
A lot of you might have like a bunch of folders and files, there's not really any basic like
law or rules that you need to follow to manage your icons.
Some people like to have it messy.
Some people like to have it organized.
But for me, typically this is how my desktop is I like to take advantage of some of the
folders that Windows 10 gives you.
So if you open up your file explorer, you're going to see documents.
So within documents, I like to create a folder called you know whatever you want.
For this example are called the BTNHD, I took all the folders and files and I dragged it
and dropped it inside that BTNHD folder and then that allows me to right click on that
folder go to send to, and then pick desktop.
When I do that what happens is that folder, which is located within the Documents folder
is on the desktop but as a shortcut.
Now the way that you know that that folder is a shortcut is that if you look close to
the icon.
You're going to see a nice little arrow on the left hand side, on the lower left hand
side, that will allow me to actually double click on the folder and it will open up all
the folders and files that I had on the desktop which keeps it nice and clean.
And it's not you know the desktop is not cluttered with a lot of icons.
Now you are able to manage some of the windows 10 system icons.
So if you click on Start, and you click on the little sprocket or the gear that will
take you to settings and within settings you want to get into personalization.
And within personalization you're going to click on themes and within themes are going
to locate the option that says desktop icon settings, you're going to get this.
Now these are windows 10 system icons and by default windows 10 automatically has the
recycling bin to show up.
You are able to just check the ones that you want to show up one that's really well known
is this PC or your folder, you are able to select one of the icons and click on Change
icon and you're able to change the way that the icon looks if you don't like the way it
looks right now back on the desktop you are able to organize the folders and files, the
way that you want it, it's up to you.
Now for this example I actually took all my PowerShell script files, and I rearranged
them in one side of the desktop.
I could do that I'm allowed to do that, you know, you're able to do whatever you want.
It's your desktop, your icons.
Now, on the desktop itself you are able to actually right click on it and you have a
couple of options you have view, which allows you to change the size of the icons also allows
you to do auto arrange icons, or align the icons to a grid.
There is a grid and imaginary invisible grid behind the scenes, which allows you to snap
all the icons together, right.
It also allows you to show desktop icons by default that's turned on.
If you click on it, it's gonna make all the icons disappear.
Now the other option is sort by, you're able to sort all your icons by name, size, item
type, and date modified and that's it guys that is today's Tech Tip Tuesday all about
managing your desktop icons, I know this is super simple but everyone should be able to
manage your icons, the way that you want it, there's not really best practice and there's
no rule book or by law that you need to do this, but a, some people like it messy.
Some people like to organize and that's up to you hopefully you guys enjoy this video
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