My Computer Icon Windows 7 Home Basic

Display my computer icon on windows 7 8.

My computer icon windows 7 home basic.

Add the my computer icon to the desktop in windows 7 8 or vista. Right click on the desktop and choose personalize then click on change desktop icons on the left hand side of the screen. In the desktop icons panel you can choose which of the built in icons to show on the desktop. If you are in tablet mode you may not be able to see your desktop icons properly.

To delete any desktop icons right click it and. To turn off tablet mode select action center on the taskbar next to date and time and then select tablet mode to turn it on or off. My computer icon is now displayed on the desktop. For a complete rundown check out our guide to restoring missing desktop icons in windows 7 8 or 10.

Click the check boxes for any desktop icons you want to appear on the windows 7 desktop. You can find the program by searching for the program name in file explorer. Starting with windows 7 you probably noticed that several icons are missing from the desktop especially if you upgraded from an older version of windows like windows xp one of the shortcuts you might miss in particular is for my computer which lets you quickly open windows explorer to see all of your system s hard drives and the folders where you find your files programs and other resources. Windows 8 and 10 don t show any of the desktop icons except for recycle bin and even windows 7 doesn t show them all.

Select which desktop icons you want and click ok. But you can still change how these icons appear elsewhere on your system. On windows desktop right click on the desktop and select personalize. On settings click change desktop icons on the left menu.

On the next screen desktop icon settings screen click within the little box next to computer to show this pc icon on your windows 10 desktop.