On Windows 11, you can change the visibility of the desktop icons. You can hide them all or each one individually for a clean desktop without clutter. Or you can show as many as you want for quick ...

A desktop overloaded with shortcuts and a taskbar filled with pinned apps can make your desktop look messy and harder to ...

If an app icon appears on my desktop—ZAP! Gone. I now even hide my taskbar so that nothing greets me but a pristine wallpaper ...

Read: System Tray icons do not work. Windows 10 users may open Settings > Personalization > Taskbar and then click Turn system icons on or off, link. However, if you are using Windows 11 ...

This will solve the trouble you are facing with icons of websites you pinned to the start menu. Let us say you created a desktop shortcut using Chrome. And when you pin it to Start, the icon goes ...