Corral Your Desktop With Stardock Fences

We’ve all been there, or at least seen it happen. You take a look at your desktop and all of a sudden you notice that it’s filled with icons. Installers, files, shortcuts everything just seems to naturally end up there. Which is fine. A good natural inbox is best when you’re getting organized, but your desktop never seems to get cleaned up. The most you’ll do is delete some installers, but that still leaves the myriad of shortcuts and documents that you need on your desktop.

If so, Stardock‘s latest product, Fences is for you. Fences allows you to section of areas of your desktop and label them. Your icons can then be dragged and deposited in these sections. The icons within each section are automatically arranged in an alphabetical-grid format, and if you add too many icons to a section, Stardock will hide the extras. Until you mouse over (what good are continuously hidden icons anyways?) and then a little scrollbar for that section appears, allowing you to look through all your icons. As a bonus, when you hit WIN+D (or the show desktop button) Fences stays displayed!

Fences is a great way to get your desktop organized if things invariably end up there. I used to keep various browser short-cuts, often used tools and a sort of “inbox” where I would dump everything and deal with later. Fences is currently in beta and is a free download to everyone. I recommend keeping up with the product releases (there’s another one in November) as Stardock will probably work out any bugs (I never ran into any, but people claim they have).