First choose a location to save all of your desktop icons and create a new folder to put them in, I recomend you call it toolbar.
Step2
Next right click your taskbar, go to toolbars and choose new toolbar. Once that has loaded locate the folder where your icons are saved and open it.
Step3
After this once again right click your taskbar and click lock the taskbar to unlock it, or leave it if it is already unlocked. You will now be able to drag it to the side of your screen.
Step4
Once it is on the side you can customize it by right clicking and disabling "Show Title" and "Show Text". You can also choose to increase the size of the icons to large. Also enable the "Always on Top" and "Auto Hide" options.