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How to Hide Your Desktop Icons

Posted October 20, 2007 at 8:21pm by iClarified
To hide your Hard disks, External disks, CDs, DVDs, iPods, and Servers from displaying on the desktop follow these instructions:

Step One
Open a Finder window by clicking the Finder window in your dock.

Step Two
Select Preferences from the Finder menu.
How to Hide Your Desktop Icons


Step Three
To hide Hard disks uncheck the Hard disks checkbox. Do the same to hide External disks, CDs, DVDs, and iPods, as well as Connected servers.
How to Hide Your Desktop Icons

Step Four
Press Command+w on the keyboard to close the preferences window.
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Mimi
Mimi - May 19, 2011 at 3:22am
Really, you could just download PresenterMate.
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