Sometimes when you have a really nice wallpaper on your desktop, having desktop icons on top of it just ruins the picture. Therefore I like to remove or hide the desktop icons so you can see the whole wallpaper on your screen with no ugly icons.
Watch this video to see how to show or hide your desktop icons.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
This is a wonderful blog and a nice summary here
Thanks! I just made a ‘vision board’ and made that my wallpaper so I was thinking how I can hide my desktop icons too. Luckily, i stumbled on this post.