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On 6/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

You can never escape desktop icons permanently by default. Windows is designed to have desktop shortcuts.  If you NEVER want to see them AND install new software, that's just not an option under normal means.

So I did a quick web search just out of curiosity and it turns out you've been able to permanently disable desktop icons since at least Windows XP! Meaning this has already been a feature of Windows for almost two decades at minimum and it's not even that hard to discover. In fact I'm pretty sure now I've stumbled upon this feature in the past but completely forgot about it because I just never needed it.

On 6/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

You can never escape desktop icons permanently by default. Windows is designed to have desktop shortcuts.  If you NEVER want to see them AND install new software, that's just not an option under normal means.

So I did a quick web search just out of curiosity and it turns out you've been able to permanently disable desktop icons since at least Windows XP! Meaning this has already been a feature of Windows for almost two decades at minimum and it's not even that hard to discover.

On 6/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

You can never escape desktop icons permanently by default. Windows is designed to have desktop shortcuts.  If you NEVER want to see them AND install new software, that's just not an option under normal means.

So I did a single web search just out of curiosity and it turns out you've been able to permanently disable desktop icons since at least Windows XP! Meaning this has already been a feature of Windows for almost two decades at minimum and it's not even that hard to discover.

On 6/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

You can never escape desktop icons permanently by default. Windows is designed to have desktop shortcuts.  If you NEVER want to see them AND install new software, that's just not an option under normal means.

So I did a single web search just out of curiosity and it turns out you've been able to permanently disable desktop icons since at least Windows XP. So this feature has been around for almost two decades at least and it's not even hard to discover!

On 6/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

You can never escape desktop icons permanently by default. Windows is designed to have desktop shortcuts.  If you NEVER want to see them AND install new software, that's just not an option under normal means.

So I did a single web search just out of curiosity and it turns out you've been able to permanently disable desktop icons since at least Windows XP! So this feature has been around for at least two decades but in all that time Ross never bothered to do just a little research that would have easily revealed this. This fact makes his rant a little embarrassing now.