Help to bring my icons back on the screen.

Anonymous
2011-01-18T19:02:01+00:00

I need to bring my icons back up on my wallpaper screen. Don't know how I hid them. Can't seem to bring them back up on the screen. What do I do?

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Anonymous
2011-01-18T19:13:16+00:00

You may have accidentally hidden the icons.

To unhide desktop icons:

  1. Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.
  2. In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" to uncheck it.

Hope this helps

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-24T22:24:36+00:00

    I have a HP Pavilion laptop and when you right click on the desktop the menu has View at the to. Click on that and the sub-menu says "show desktop icons" at the bottom. The laptop is running windows 10. thanks for the original answer though. It got me in the right direction.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T14:22:29+00:00

    I right click on the desktop screen and I get nothing

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-18T00:49:42+00:00

    I need help to bring back my starter icons.  Thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-08T19:22:44+00:00

    I cant get my icons back on screan

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