Four free tools to better organize your desktop icons:

Studies have found that people with cleaner, tidier desktops live longer. I am joking of course, but ask yourself this: is your desktop too crowded with icons? Do you ever wish for a little bit more room just to fit in a few more files? Are there files and folders doing nothing that were put there weeks ago.

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If so, then this post is for you. It will present  4 free tools that can help you better organize your desktop, or at least breathe some new life into it.

The problem:
a busy, cluttered desktop (see image below).

1.SE-DesktopConstructor: map out ‘zones’ inside your wallpaper to help organize your icons.

This program simply modifies the wallpaper image to embed user-defined zones within them, that correspond to where you want your icons to be. Users can edit or change these at any time; the program does not do much more than that.

2. Nimi Places: display the contents of folders in containers on the desktop.

Once you move your icons into folders that make sense to you, you can display the contents of these folders on the desktop at all times.

3. SideSlide: display the contents of folders inside a scrolling window.

SideSlide offers a sliding interface that appears when you mouse over the top edge of your screen and can house RSS feeds, shortcuts, and all sorts of objects. For the purposes of desktop organization, we removed all objects, moved the desktop icons into folders on the hard drive, and than link to those folders within SideSlide.

4. Dexpot: create separate virtual desktops, each with it’s own collection of icons:

If your icons are crowding out a single desktop, why not use many? Dexpot is a free virtual desktop app that supports multiple desktops, and is the only one as far as I know to support organizing icons into separate desktops, rather than just windows and applications.