While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked ...

If you don't disable it manually, most will add a new desktop icon by default. After a few years of this, you'll find that your desktop has become a cluttered catastrophe of icons, usually not ...

If you see white blank icons on Windows 11/10 Desktop, then it’s because the OS cannot load the icons attached to those programs and files. Windows maintains a database of icons which is used ...

This frustration is reflected in the Windows 11 Feedback Hub, where a suggestion to never combine app icons and show labels has received 17,527 upvotes, making it the 10th most requested feature.