How can I show / hide desktop icons using DSC?

[mwolfaardt]

In windows there's an option to show or hide desktop icons, how can I set that with DSC?

[Gijsreyn]

Hi @mwolfaardt, I'm not aware of a current DSC resource that implements it. The closest that comes near it is the one sitting in the winget-dsc repository. It currently doesn't have this setting, nor am I sure if it can be implemented (if it is not documented, it can't at least).

However, these options are essentially registry settings that you can set. I did a quick search on Google, and it returned the following key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel] with the HideIcons value. With these values known, you can create a GetScript/SetScript/TestScript from the PSDesiredStateConfiguration module. An example syntax is in this repository. You can also wait for the PSScript resource to become available and do basically the same.

Hope that points you in the right direction. If that's not the key, you can always hit up a Process Monitor and capture the key being set from there :)