You should now be able to toggle your desktop icons by pressing the F10 key.įinally we will add the script to startup automatically when we start Windows. Now save the file and test to see if it works by right-clicking on the file and choosing ‘Run script’. You can change it to anything you wish, for now it will be the F10 key.
The very first row is the key you need to press to toggle the visibility. If DllCall("IsWindowVisible", UInt, HWND) F10::ĬontrolGet, HWND, Hwnd, SysListView321, ahk_class ProgmanĬontrolGet, HWND, Hwnd, SysListView321, ahk_class WorkerW Delete all the current code in the text editor and paste the code below into the text file. It should open up in Notepad with some text already in it. You can name it whatever you want, then right-click on the new file and click ‘Edit script’ in the menu. I had to download both of those resources for the Windows shortcut keys to start working.
You will also need to restart your computer after this. If that doesn’t help, try downloading the very latest one from Microsoft.
#Windows desktop shortcuts .exe#
exe doesn’t work even by just clicking on it, in some cases, you need to download the Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack for the executable file to work properly, due to it being fairly old.
#Windows desktop shortcuts windows 10#
Sadly the shortcut keys in Windows 10 have a fifty-fifty chance of working properly and a lot of people seem to have issues with them having an activation delay or simply not working at all.Ī simple fix would be to simply drag the executable to your taskbar so you can toggle it from there by clicking it, but it is often not desirable. Solutions if Windows shortcut keys don’t work Now you should be able to show and hide your desktop icons simply by pressing ‘Ctrl + Alt + H’ or whatever shortcut you chose. Also make sure the combination is unique so it doesn’t interfere with any of your other programs.Īfter this, you need to restart your computer due to the location of our shortcut. The main issue with this is that Windows automatically adds Ctrl + Alt to all the shortcut keys and this can’t be changed. In properties, go to the Shortcut tab and click on the ‘Shortcut key’ textbox and press any button on your keyboard, for example the ‘H’ key.
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