How to add desktop icons on windows 10

This article describes how to add desktop icons on Windows 10 for easy navigation around the computer.

After a long-term of using windows 7 or 8, you’ve decided to upgrade to Windows 10 but the desktop icons for Windows 10 are not as easy to add as for Windows 7.

Well don’t get frustrated, this guide will show you all the steps to add desktop icons on Windows 10. Windows 10 was released with a bit of change in settings compared to previous versions and from here, you will always learn how to use these settings.

The following steps show how to add desktop icons on windows 10

Click on the start button, search for “settings“. From the left menu of the settings window, Select Themes and click on Desktop icon settings from the right.

Mark the icons you prefer to be displayed on the desktop and click apply.

Additionally, you can change the display icon for any of these applications. All you have to do is select the application icon whose icon you want to change and then click Change Icon. The file explorer will be opened. Navigate to the location of the image you wish to put.

Don’t forget to click Apply after all the settings.