This guide describes how to create an icon in Microsoft Paint. All you need to do is set a canvas, draw your icon, and save the file in .ico format.

But I lost these icons after the conversion and can’t figure out how to re-create them on the desktop with Windows 10. Your advice, please. ~ Tom Caldwell, Greeley Tech+ You might be hiding icons.

Update Windows 10. If there has been a recent Windows 10 update, it could be that your missing desktop icons are related to a vulnerability patch contained in that update.

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

In Windows 7 and 8, you could customize icons in the “system tray” to permanently show on the taskbar, or hide them away in the pop-up drawer. These options have moved in Windows 10.

You can change your desktop icon size on a Windows 10 computer in a few steps. The default icon size is usually medium, but you can adjust it.

Learn how to center Taskbar icons in Windows 10. By creating a toolbar or using a free software like TaskbarX, you can move the icons to the middle of screen & center align the icons on the Taskbar.