Arrange Your Desktop

Arrange Your Desktop is a program for messy Windows desktops that are filled with many unorganized files.

Having a clean desktop is like having a clean room: it takes care to maintain it and it takes a lot of work to clean up if you let it get messy. You download a program, save a document, copy a few pictures from your camera, save a few projects, all on your desktop, and in a few weeks it gets messy and almost full. It is discouraging to think about having to sort through all that and this is what this program tries to do for you.

Artificial intelligence hasn't developed enough to know where we usually keep our files, so this software uses a simple system: it groups files by type. If you have hundreds of icons on your desktop, this will not solve all of your problems but it is a good start. It is a relief to see all those icons disappear, uncovering your background image and allowing you to see it clearly again.

One problem that this application has is a small and a big one at the same time. It's big because it is critical, happens often and stops all operations. And it's small because it’s simple to solve on your part. If you have a file opened in an editor, it is often locked so that it can’t be accessed by another program, deleted or moved. When this utility tries to move that file, an error appears and no file is moved. So all you have to do is close any editors you have open. The developer(s) will have to solve this issue, because it’s rather shameful that such a thing generates a critical error.

In conclusion, if your desktop is messy and you’re lazy, download this program and let it do the job of tidying up.