How to Show My Computer icon on Desktop in Windows 8

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Microsoft have made many changes and improvements in windows 8, if you have newly installed latest Microsoft windows 8, you might noticed that some of the icons are gone, such as computer icon,user files, network and many more.
This post would help you to bring back such important icons on your desktop and to pin to the start metro menu, you will be able to show or hide basic windows icons on your desktop, to facilitate the users, Microsoft have pinned folder icon on the Task bar near internet explorer, from which you can access your local hard drive files, but there are some options that cannot be done without my computer icon, such as if you want to manage your disk managements or you want to view the properties of you PC easily.

Create My Computer icon on Desktop

it is very simple to display computer and other icons on your windows 8 desktop, to be honest, it would be piece of cake for you.

Follow the Below Steps:

Step-1: First of all Right click on Desktop and click personalize. a new window will open, just like below in screen shot.

At the top-left click on Change desktop icons, Now there will be options for you, 

Step-2:

In the 'Desktop icon settings' window check the icons that you want appear on your desktop, these are Computer, Recycle bin, User's Files(Similar to windows xp documents ), Control panel and Network.

Once you check the icons, then click on Apply or Ok.

that's all you need to bring computer icon on your desktop.

Now wait a minute, Do you want My computer icon should appear on your Start Menu? Did't got?

Whenever you start your PC, a New type of metro menu appears, So if you want that computer icon be also there then follow the steps, 

How to Show my computer icon on Start Screen:

Once you followed the above steps to display my computer icon on your desktop, then you are on the right place to make it visible on your windows 8 start screen.

Simply Right click on My Computer and then click on Pin to start. that's all you need, was't that much simple?

Now whenever you will jump to your start screen, you will also see my computer icon.

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