I have been googling all morning, and am finding that, apparently, there is simply no fix for this. I do this myself, but had given up, and now have a user recently converted to Win10 who is very ...
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 cleaner.
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