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Hi. I want to put the Macintosh HD icon on my desktop for ease of use. I don't seem to be able to do this though. Is this really not doable or is there a clever way of doing it. Any help would be welcomed. Thanks.
iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)
Launch Finder from the Dock
Using the Menu bar, click onFinderthen click onPreferences...
Under the General tab, you can see that only External disks and CDs, DVDs and iPods are selected by default to be displayed on the desktop. To display the hard disk icon on the desktop, select the checkbox beside Hard disks
Once selected, the changes are applied instantly and you can see now the Macintosh HD icon displayed on the desktop.
Launch Finder from the Dock
Using the Menu bar, click onFinderthen click onPreferences...
Under the General tab, you can see that only External disks and CDs, DVDs and iPods are selected by default to be displayed on the desktop. To display the hard disk icon on the desktop, select the checkbox beside Hard disks
Once selected, the changes are applied instantly and you can see now the Macintosh HD icon displayed on the desktop.
Finder menu > Preferences > General > Show these items on Desktop.
That's fantastic, CrashBurner. Thank you.
That's fantastic, macjack. Thank you.
How do I put the Macintosh HD icon on my desktop?
