Just a little news to inform you that recently Stardock launched a new software in order to help you to better organize icons on your desktop : it is Fences.
 
 
 
Still in beta version, Fences allows you to sort and to class yours icons in different categories and into containers. You can give a name to each container, resize them, place them everywhere and even hide your icons when they're not in use, you can also double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out, you double click again, and hup, they'll return.

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