Is there an easy way to access a desktop icon without minimizing all windows? For example, if I can access the icons from within the start menu, it'd be really helpful. Minimizing all windows does the job, but disrupts my workflow.

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If your icons change frequently:

• One option is to just open Windows Explorer (the file browser) and navigate to your Desktop there. You could toggle the one window open and closed as you need.

If your icons aren't going to change all that often:

• Another would be to put all the important shortcuts in your start menu. Just right click the important ones and Pin To Start.

You could add a Desktop toolbar: right click on the Taskbar, go to Toolbars, click Desktop.

7stacks is a great app for this kind of thing as well.

Pin the shortcut icons to the task bar.

If you want easy access to a few specific shortcuts on your desktop (or anywhere else), you can assign them hotkeys:

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