The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Adding a Chrome shortcut to the Windows 8.1 desktop enables you to bypass the Start screen and launch Chrome directly from the desktop. Microsoft makes creating such shortcuts effortless in File ...

William Beaver asked for “a simple, safe” way to remove the arrows from the shortcuts on his desktop. Shortcuts point to files–usually but not always programs–that are stored elsewhere on your drive.

The default mode of the Desktop is to auto-arrange icons. If you move an icon, delete one, or add a new one, it will rearrange itself. The problem happens when you connect another monitor with a ...

I’d bet that if you polled 10 PC users on the best way to use the desktop on Windows you’d get 11 different answers. How to use the desktop is one of the most personal choices each PC user makes.