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Originally Posted by Joe Busuttil  ... Windows 10 has a habit of creating shortcuts when I do not need them, e.g. I have the following shortcut on my pc: the Control Panel icon.
There is a very real risk that if i try to open this icon, all the information in it will vanish forever.
To deactivate the shortcut option permanently, can you, please, suggest a method how it's done?... |
I appear to have somehow achieved this in the past for Windows 10 including a couple of other Windows apps, but it was a long time ago and cannot recall how I did it.
After a web-search I found this answer:
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(click thumbnail image to see larger view) Step 1.
Right-Click on the Desktop and Choose
Personalize.
Step 2.
On the Personalize Menu choose
Themes on the left-hand sidebar.
Step 3.
On the
right-hand pane click on
Desktop Icon Settings under
Related Settings (might need to scroll down the right-hand side pane to find it.)
Step 4.
Remove a tick in the checkbox for either or both Computer, and or User’s Files,
Control Panel and or Network. Depending on which you wish to hide from Desktop.
Step 5.
Click on Apply and then Ok.
You can obviously reverse this by re-checking whichever checkbox you wish to return to Desktop.
I am at heart a Mac OS user. So if this does not fix your issue then someone else would be more appropriate.