How to change your desktop icons on a Mac In macOS, you've got almost complete freedom over what each individual desktop icon looks like.

Want smaller icons on your PC? This guide shows you how to change desktop icon size in Windows 10 quickly and simply.

Click and drag on a widget to position it on your desktop manually, or click the green + (plus) icon on a widget to have it neatly positioned on the desktop alongside other widgets.

Tweak UI, which comes with Powertoys for XP is able to add/remove those icons to/from the desktop. See if that solves your problem ...