While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked cleaner.

Auto Hide Desktop Icons is a freeware application that can hide your Windows desktop icons and even your taskbar after a set time interval – and works better than the Auto-hide taskbar feature. If you ...

Fences 2 is well worth the money: It makes the desktop useful again. I have no icons on my desktop. I have two wide-screen monitors totaling almost 4,000 horizontal pixels, and not a single icon— ...