Windows 10: How to hide windows 10 program icons on desktop temporarily?

Im going to a computer repair shop and going to have them take out my battery... its bloated and swollen. When i turn on my laptop, i always have to enter my bitlocker pin... then my windows password and then it goes to my screen.


I will be having a repair shop open my laptop, take out the swollen battery then close it. Then i will turn it on to see if it works... will have it connected to an outlet at the computer shop of course since it has no battery.


Now I want to turn it on... and i want some programs/icons to not be visible because I don't want the person at the shop to see it. Its more of a financial thing with those programs that is shown on the icons. Then when i get back home, i want those icons to show up again on my icon screen. I assume best way to do this is



1. Send all the icons to a specific fold or something? And send them all back to the desktop later on?


2. Click delete on every single program icon and it goes to recycle bin. Then when everything is done and im back home, click on recycle pin and restore back to desktop?

:)

 

Windows 10 desktop icons not in order

In ccleaner, did you uncheck cleaning the icon cache... have not used in a while; however, I think that is what the option is called.

Now, if you are setting the icons and they move after you have set the settings and not changed them... you may have the "Random Windows 10 Icon movement problem".
Some people have this and some don't.

Here is a thread on the problem at Windows10 forums: Windows 10: Folder View Settings and Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving

 

No icons on desktop after startup only

EagleEye,

Welcome to the forum!

Have you tried toggling the Desktop icons on and off?

• Right-click on an open area of the Desktop
• Click: View
• If Show Desktop icons is already checked, uncheck it.
• Repeat the above steps a time or two.
• Check: Show Desktop icons

Desktop Icons - Hide or Show in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

If no go on the above, right-click on the empty Desktop, and create a file.

Let us know if they come back on.

 

GPU-Z Program Icon Submission

Suggestion to have an option to change Notification Area icon this way too.
Suggestion to finally have proper separate Options window like most (all?) Windows programs do.