You may customize the icons to suit your habits.

This post onMiniToolmainly focuses on how to remove icons from desktop when they are useless.

Desktop icon, also known as desktop shortcut, creates an easy way to access certain location/program/controls.

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What if you find some desktop icons are not useful anymore?

Obviously, you should remove icons from desktop manually.

But do you knowhow to remove icons from desktop?

[SOLVED] How To Recover Permanently Deleted Files In Windows

In fact, there are several ways available for you to delete icon (or delete shortcut).

Step 1: look through all the icons placed on your desktop.

Step 2: right opt for icon that you want to remove from desktop.

Step 3: chooseDeletefrom the pop-up context menu.

How to delete the desktop icon shortcut permanently?There are 3 ways to use.

1stway: delete icon from Recycle Bin.

Also, you could right choose it & chooseDelete.

2ndway: empty the Recycle Bin.

Is it possible to recover deleted files from the Recycle Bin?

This post tells you useful methods to achieve the goal.

3rdway: Shift Delete the icon.

How to recover permanently deleted files from Windows 11/10?

you might learn some practical methods from this post.

To bring back the icons, you only need to repeat this process.

In this situation, how can you delete the system icons?

Thats all about how to remove icons from desktop on Windows 10.

(The steps to remove icons from desktop in other Windows systems are similar.)