Simple, elegant, and insanely practical, Fences corrals all your desktop icons. Tired of icon clutter? Sure, you can organize your desktop shortcuts, programs, folders, and the like by dragging and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s one messy desktop you’ve got. No, not your physical ...

Just look at all those folders and other icons cluttering your Windows desktop. How do you find anything, much less get anything done in all that digitized mess? What you need is Fences, a program ...

Searching for an oft-used software via the Start Menu can take time if you have several apps installed. Sure, you can quickly search for it using the taskbar search bar, but many prefer to place its ...

The MacBook Pro's desktop contains icons that represent files, folders, mounted drives and aliases to files, folders and applications. A double-click on an icon accesses a folder, opens a file or ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Maybe you’re the type of person who laboriously organizes your Windows’ desktop icons, sorting them and adding them to specific folders. If you’re not, Stardock’s Fences 4 utility may be worth a look.

The default mode of the Desktop is to auto-arrange icons. If you move an icon, delete one, or add a new one, it will rearrange itself. The problem happens when you connect another monitor with a ...

As files are added to the desktop after downloading, Windows 7 seems to want to add the recent files starting at the top left. And occasionally some files get arranged from left to right instead of ...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s one messy desktop you’ve got. No, not your physical desk. I’m talking about the background of your computer. See for yourself: drag this browser window ...