- Collections 4 2 – Organize Your Desktop Icons Desktop Windows 10
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- If you right click on a desktop icon and view the properties you will see on the general tab the location for each icon. The two groups will easily be identified - one is likely to be the C: Users Public Desktop and the other will be C: Users yourname Desktop. The public location is used for apps that are for all users, your personal location.
- RocketDock can easily help you to organize your desktop Icons. This is another free tool with lots of skins, icons, and docklets. Make your desktop clutter free, and arrange icons with the help of this free Desktop Icon Organizer. You can place the dock anywhere on the screen you want, and customize the GUI as you like.
Organize your digital space with function and beauty - for desktops & smart devices!A desktop organizer and calendar is a.png file image that you can place either on a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or phone. These desktop calendars are useful for organizing icons on your desktop such as file. How I organize my desktop icons. I hate desktop icons, just put the 4 programs you actually use in the start menu and put the top 2 on the taskbar.
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If a variety of files and program shortcuts are taking up your desktop, perhaps you should take some measures to organize your messy desktop. In today’s article, MiniTool will tell you how to organize desktop icons and some free desktop organizers.
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The Windows 10 desktop enables you to store all kinds of files and program shortcuts, but sometimes you may be troubled by the messy desktop icons. So, how to organize desktop icons? Here are several useful tips that can help you tidy your desktop.
Hide or Delete All Unwanted Desktop Icons
If there are many programs that you don’t use much often, hiding or deleting the unwanted desktops icons may be a good solution. It is very simple to delete the unwanted desktop icons by right-clicking the icon and select Delete.
Tip: If you accidentally delete important data, don’t worry, MiniTool will provide you with an easy solution to recover the lost data.
Collections 4 2 – Organize Your Desktop Icons Desktop Windows 10
Here is a quick guide to hiding desktop icons.
Step 1. Right-click your desktop and select View>Show desktop icons. Then you will find an empty desktop.
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Step 2. If you want to see all desktop icons again, just click Show desktop icons or open your File Explorer to view these icons.
Perhaps you have found this is a “nuclear” operation. If you want to see the stored files or program shortcuts regularly, this method maybe not so convenient for you. Let’s move to the next solution.
Quickly Organize Desktop Icons Windows 10
This solution can help you tidy your messy desktop quickly with all icons remained on desktop. Here are 2 options that you can refer to.
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Step 1. Right-click your desktop and select the Sort by menu. Then you can select one from the 4 options. For instance, you can select Name to organize icons on desktop alphabetically or Date modified to sort the icons chronologically. Well, you can also select Size or Item type.
Option 2
If you want to organize desktop icons Windows 10 automatically, you can check Auto arrange icons under the View menu. After that, your desktop icons will be grouped one after another.
Put Your Program Shortcuts into the Start Menu and Taskbar
Usually, program shortcuts are placed on your desktop when installing them, but the desktop may get messier over time. Here you can place them in other locations such as the Start menu or Taskbar.
Right-click the program shortcut and select Pin to Taskbar, and then it will appear on your Taskbar and you can move its position.
You can also place them on your Start menu. On Windows 10 desktop, right-click a shortcut listed in the Start menu and select Pin to start, or just drop the icon to the pinned programs area. Then you can organize the shortcuts into groups and rename them.
How to organize Windows 10 desktop icons more effectively?
Use a Free Desktop Organizer Software
If you want to organize Windows 10 desktop icons more effectively, here Stardock Fences is worth using. This app organizes desktop icons with the fences you created. You can name the fences and move the desktop icons in or out of them. What’s more, you can assign them different colors and resize them.
More importantly, Stardock Fences offers you many advanced features. The app shortcuts can be automatically placed into appropriate fences by configuring the Fence rules. For example, you can create a fence rule that image files will be automatically put into a Pictures fence. You can visit here for more details.
I had posted an article about how to effectively organize your Windows desktop before, which included a several software, one of them is Stardock Fences, which is the software that will be reviewed. If you still do not know what is Stardock Fence, I would say that it is a unique software (which is one-of-a-kind) that allows you to organize the shortcut icons on your desktop in the way you desired. Besides a multiple-shaded-area for each different categories of icons is possible, it also has this killing feature – double click to make all (customizable) shortcut icons to become disappear. And one more advantage of this software is that it is absolutely FREE. In conjunction with the just release version 1.00 Customer Technical Preview of Stardock Fences, I have decided to do a simple review on this free software. So, let’s go on with the review of the software: