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.

Unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 no longer supports modifying the registry, to allow display of the special Internet Explorer icon on the Windows 7 desktop. This change was apparently made to ensure ...

Windows only: Desktop icon organizer Fences arranges your cluttered desktop icons into containers so you can clean up the mess into useful groups of shortcuts—or optionally hides them altogether. Once ...