You can hide desktop icons using a Terminal command, and use the same command to create a Shortcuts workflow that toggles the desktop on and off. You can automatically delete old files from the ...

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Desktoday, Clean, or Camouflage are free or cheap and can help move or hide the files and folders that are cluttering your desktop. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and ...

Folders are an incredibly common method of organization for most computer users. Both the folders themselves and the files within can be named and organized in various ways, but what about the desktop ...

How out of control is your Mac desktop? Can you see the carefully chosen wallpaper image in the background, or is it obscured by files, folders, aliases and DMG files for applications you have ...

A few years ago at the PC Gamer office, I had to use Tim's PC for a day. What I found was a desktop absolutely covered with icons—folders, images, PDFs, shortcuts—nearly filling the entire screen from ...

This is a pet peeve that has been troubling me for many years. The point is that I find that this thing with desktop and icons to be a dated remnant from the '80s when computers were a novelty when ...

When you spend hours at your computer every day, the slightest unexpected change on your desktop can throw you off balance. The blue highlighting of desktop icons can happen accidentally in Windows XP ...