How to remove apps from my Mac desktop

You can really clean up your Mac Desktop by hiding all the hard disk and drive icons that appear by default on it. This is a settings choice that makes it so when you connect a new drive to the Mac, it wont show up on the desktop, but it will be visible from a Finder window and accessible from the Finder or any application.

Keep in mind you can also just create a folder on the desktop or elsewhere on your Mac and manually drag an drop icons and files into that folder, that removes them from the desktop and cleans things up a bit but you cant do that with drives and volumes. To hide things like a hard disk or USB drive, youll need to turn to the settings option.

Heres how to adjust what icons are visible on the Mac desktop, youll want to do this from the Mac OS and Mac OS X Finder:

How to Hide or Remove Icons from Mac Desktop

Navigate to the Finder of Mac OS if you have not done so already, then do the following:

1. Click on the Finder menu and select Preferences
2. Click on the General tab
3. Uncheck boxes next to hard disks, drives, ipods, etc to toggle those icons off or on on the Mac desktop

Changes take effect immediately and your hard disk will immediately disappear [Note this doesnt really remove the icons in a deletion sense, it just hides them from being visually seen on the Desktop].

Any other icons you want cleared off the desktop you can simply just drag & drop them into another folder within your home directory, or elsewhere.

If you really want to have a clean and bare desktop, you can also choose to hide all desktop icons from ever appearing via the Mac OS command line by using a defaults command string. That defaults method basically disables the desktop, thereby preventing the icons from showing up at all, unlike the method described above, it applies to all icons rather than just selective choices of hard disks, drives, and network shares.

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