How to remove Pictures from desktop without deleting Mac

It sounds like you want to keep these pictures currently residing on your desktop. Abetter approach would be to move the images to a folder within your Pictures directory in Windows. This will keep the files on the hard drive, and in your photo organizing program, but free up visible space for other things on your desktop.

To do this, first open Windows Explorer this is the file management application of Windows. In Windows 8.1, Explorer can be launched by clicking on the "Folder" icon found on your Taskbar.

Once open, you will see a two-column displaywith various folders and drives shown in the left column and various files and folders in the right.

In the left column, locate and click on the "Pictures" or "My Pictures" folder (it should be under the "Libraries" category listed there). When you do, the contents of that folder will appear in the right column.

Right-click over some blank space in the right column and select "New Folder" from the menu that appears. Give that folder a name (for example, "Desktop Images") and hit Enter. Then double-click on that folder to enter it keeping in mind that when you do the right column will not have anything to display in it.

Minimize Windows Explorer, go to your desktop, highlight the images you want to remove from it (hold down the CTRL key and click on the images to select multiple items collectively) and press "CTRL + X" on your keyboard to "Cut" the images.

Next, maximize your Windows Explorer window, click in the blank space in the right column again and press "CTRL + V" on your keyboard to paste the images in there. This will move the images from your Desktop to this directory.

In the future, if you want to access these images again, you can do so through your photo organizer (they should remain in the same spot there) or launch Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder you created in your Pictures directory.

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