4 ways to Keep Your Desktop Clean !!

How to Keep Your Desktop Neat and Clean ?

If you are installing lot of new applications or you are downloading more and more stuffs to your desktop then you are at right place. You can use following tips to keep your desktop clean -

A. Create Folders on Desktop and Put Rarely used Icons

1. Creating new folder on the desktop and putting all non usable icons in it will clean up your desktop in some manner.
2. We can sort out desktop items in categories such as - Images,Videos,Icons and accordingly sort out desktop items.
3. After using this you are free to download anything on your desktop (but have to do some efforts always to keep desktop clean)

B. Show Desktop Icons Menu in Window 7

1. Whenever we try to catch screen it is good thing to hide all your desktop icons.
2. Window 7 provides us great facility to hide all the desktop icons .
3. Right Click on Desktop , Inside View , Uncheck “Show Desktop Icons” label.

C. Always Auto Arrange Icons

1. By default this facility is disabled , and all the icons can be put anywhere on the screen.
2. In the above Screenshot we can check label for “Auto Arranging” icons.
3. It will auto arrange all icons preventing icons to spread in haphazard manner .

D. Desktop Cleanup Tool

1. In window XP we can use Desktop Cleanup Tool to Clean Desktop by Deleting Desktop Icons that are out of actions since long time.
2. However Window Vista and Window 7 does not provide such a strong facility to users.
3. For Window 7 and Vista we are using non Window 3rd party tool to clean desktop (Desktop Cleanup Tool)

CleanDesktop is a small portable freeware app which will help you clean up your unused desktop icons, in Windows 7 & Vista. This utility is for those who miss the wizard!

On running it, it will scan & detect desktop items which have not been used in the last 30 days and and list them down. You then have an option to delete all or some of them.