How To Bring Back Old Icons on Vista’s Desktop

To be honest, I hate having icons on my desktop. In fact, I always liked to keep my desktop as clean as possible, and if that means no icons at all, works just fine for me. Since it's not all about me, I must admit that most people like to organize their stuff on the desktop, and the most frequent used icons have always been "My Computer""and "Network Neighbourhood", but Vista comes with a desktop that only has Recycle Bin, so let's talk about how to make things right...

After learning how to bring back the old Start Menu, you'll see that restoring the old icons to your Vista desktop is also a piece of cake. Are you ready? Here it goes...

- Right click somewhere on your desktop to bring up the contextual menu, and choose Personalize.

- From the Personalize appearance and sounds window, left click on Change desktop icons.

- Check the icons you want to have on your desktop in the window that appears.

- Press OK to apply the changes. No restart is needed.

- Go back to your Vista desktop and enjoy your old items with a new look!


As you can see, it was really easy, just as promised! Be sure to check back SoftDistrict tomorrow for some new Tips & Tricks, because we have a lot of new, interesting ones coming up!

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