Now, move to your desktop and right-click on the desktop icon you want to make invisible. In our case, it is Recycle Bin. And, from the context menu, click on the Rename option. Or, press the F2 key.

In case you're not fluent in Windows' lingo, the system tray is the right part of the taskbar where all the little icons of ...

“Windows 11 also adds a row of shortcut icons to File Explorer that, ... it’s not exactly intuitive to figure out what the Rename icon, for example, actually does.

This frustration is reflected in the Windows 11 Feedback Hub, where a suggestion to never combine app icons and show labels has received 17,527 upvotes, making it the 10th most requested feature.