How To Add This PC Icon To The Desktop, Create a Shortcut and Use Hot Keys for This PC 💻⌨️🖥️
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2017-08-03

👍 Watch how to bring This PC icon back to desktop in Windows 7, 8 or 10. I noticed that users often ask about it. Though it’s quite simple to solve this problem, some people who have never used Windows 10 before may be confused by not seeing This PC icon on their desktop. 

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The easiest way to open This PC is by pressing the key sequence Windows + E. It won’t create the icon on the desktop, but you can open This PC from any place in your system.

Contents:
0:00 - Intro;
0:24 - Keyboard shortcut Windows + E 
0:35 - Options menu 
1:13 - Opening the Desktop Icon Options Menu using the Run menu command
1:38 - How to drag my computer icon to the desktop

Yet if you really need to have this icon on your desktop, the proper way to display it in WIndows 10 will be by using the Settings menu.
So, let’s begin.
• Go to Settings
• Personalization
• Themes
• Click on the link “Desktop icon settings”
• As a result, you wil see the menu that we remember back from Windows 7.
• Check the boxes for icons which you want to be displayed on the desktop 
• After that, click Apply / OK
• The icons have appeared on your desktop now

You can open the menu “Desktop icon settings” with the help of a command in the Run menu. It’s quite a tricky command which is difficult to pronounce. To do it:
• Press Windows + R.
• And enter this command: 
Rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,5

You can find the command in the description for this video.

• Now you can check the necessary desktop icons just as we did before and then click Apply / OK.

Here’s the next method.
• Open This PC by pressing Windows + E.
• Left-click on This PC icon and drag it onto the desktop.
• As a result, you will have a shortcut of the folder This PC on the desktop.

In fact, this method is not too correct, as a shortcut has got no functions (a context menu) of This PC icon.  Nevertheless, you can access this folder from the desktop.

There is one more way to add This PC icon to the desktop which makes use of the Registry Editor. However, for some reason it didn’t work in my case, so I’m not going to show it. 

That’s all for now. Post a comment to share your experience of getting This PC icon back to the desktop in Windows 10. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching. Good luck.