Desktop Icons Software

Phantom Desktop Screen Saver

Software that, when activated, hides all application windows, desktop icons and the MS Windows taskbar, replacing them with an empty desktop. This empty desktop can be the standard wallpaper image, or a custom bitmap and can also be optionally configured to dissolve to a simple black background.

CustomIcons

This graphics utility allows you to change standard Windows icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders, your folders and other. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, rebuild the icon cache.

Amelix IML

This tool will store your desired desktop icon layout. Then, if something changes your desktop icon layout, you can restore your desired icon array with a simple click. Amelix IML software is a freeware filed under desktop icons utilities.

12Ghosts ProfileCopy

Administer Windows user profiles. This includes user defined settings, like your wallpaper, sound and cursor schemes, desktop icons and layout, start menu items, and so on. What's different, 12-ProfileCopy also copies the files referred to by these settings, like the wallpaper bitmap or the screen saver. This tool can also be used as full backup program since you can add files and folders unlimitted, and even backup user defined registry keys.

! System Guard

System Guard limits user only run permitted programs and do nothing else on your pc. System Guard allows you to easily lock and unlock system on your pc. Once you lock the system, it will not be accessible and the taskbar, start menu and desktop icons will hide. User can run a list of permitted programs freely or run the programs directly from this software with password after you have locked the system. This shareware is listed under security, privacy access control category.

Quick Hide Windows

This utility by CronoSoft is great for hiding program windows with a press of a hotkey combination. You easily bring them back with another combo. Hiding the taskbar and desktop icons is just awesome. Password protection allows you to lock QHW to prevent intruders from trying to show invisible applications while you're gone. You can even lock your computer with QHW instead of a weak, easily hackable screensaver password. Utilities demo listed in utilities, security, desktop utilities tools.

Black and Blue Icons

This graphics tool is an icon set of 6 Mac OS X application icons such as iChat, iPhoto, iTunes, Address Book, Text Edit, iCal in black and blue colors. Black and Blue Icons software is a freeware filed under desktop icons utilities.

Easy Desktop Keeper

This software lets you save, restore, manage and lock desktop layout that includes files and folders located on the desktop, placement of desktop icons, desired wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock desktop layout, every time you reboot your PC, the program will restore desktop icons and bring them back to their original positions as well as return the old wallpaper and the screen saver to the background. This shareware is listed under desktop category.

Wallpaper Magic

Use any picture from the web as your desktop wallpaper. Click and pick from your favorite wallpapers. One click makes your desktop icons hidden or transparent. Change your wallpaper daily or at any time interval. 7 display modes. Add new pictures automatically. Live preview right on your desktop. Supports JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG, and more! ANY picture can be added by pasting through the clipboard. Email support. FREE for 15 pics with NO TIME LIMIT.

Super Fast Shutdown

Have you ever wished there was a faster way to shutdown your Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer system? I mean instantly shut it down! Now you can! Just install Super Fast Shutdown and click on one of the desktop icons created to reboot or shutdown instantly

1st Desktop Guard

Tired to lose your desktop icons and get them rearranged? Tired to roll back your desktop wallpaper and screen saver after other users you share your PC with? Want to secure your public access computers? 1st Desktop Guard lets you save, restore, manage and lock desktop layouts including placement of desktop icons, wallpaper and screen saver.

FolderMagic

Desktop appearance utility making it easy to change the appearance of your Desktop and Windows Explorer folders to any color or choose from the hundreds of icons included with the program. It is easy to use and requires only 3 steps to change a folder! Choose any color in the color spectrum and get rid of those plain yellow folders! Or, choose from the hundrds of icons we include, download our additional themed icon packs or add your own icons; the possibilties are endless.

1st Security Agent

Password-protected security utility for all Windows. Restrict access to Control Panel, disable Start Menu items, hide drives, disable DOS, boot keys, Registry editing, taskbar, task manager, and network access, hide desktop icons, apply password protection to Windows, and disable running applications. Secure Internet Explorer, disable individual menu items and individual tabs in the Internet Options dialog, as well as specific settings from each

StormWindow Me

Cetus StormWindow [TM] for Windows Me will allow the authorized user to add several types of protections to the desktop and system of a Windows Me computer. Intelligent use of StormWindow security measures will allow secure use of any shared Windows Me PC. StormWindow protections would probably be most useful to a system administrator at a school or business. Utilities shareware listed in windows desktop security software tools.

WallpaperXe

Wallpaper Xe is a utility designed to offer you total and complete control over your own desktop wallpapers. Features: Active Desktop ( great for putting animation, sound clips, or movie on your desktop ), 30 Graphics formats, Timer, Transparent background for icons captions, customizable hotkeys, search disks for wallpapers, screen capture, beautiful easy to use interface, multilingual. Free fully functional download. Utilities shareware listed in wallpapers tools.

DesktopPlus

Create up to 9 'Virtual' Desktops, divide your standard Windows desktop amongst them and individually organize, arrange and configure them. Each Virtual Desktop can have its own set of Applications (windows), Desktop Icons, Wallpaper, Resolution and frequency. Automatically start applications on individual desktops. Switch between desktops with a single key combination, the toolbar or the tray icons - all configurable.

1st Privacy Tool for Windows

1st Privacy Tool is a powerful security utility that allows you to restrict access to Windows important resources. This easy-to-use utility helps you to keep your computer in order. It enables you to impose a variety of access restrictions to protect your privacy. You can deny access to each individual component of several Control Panel applets, DOS programs, Registry editing and network access. It has got the multiuser intuitional interface.

TrayIcon Standard

This tool is a Windows 95/98/NT system tray manager that allows you to easily add, edit, delete, and re-order your application icons in the system tray. Other features include: security, foreign language support, Windows Explorer context menu support, sound, and much more. TrayIcon also provides you with a Dial-Up Networking and DeskAccess Icon to allow you to easily access all of your networking connections and desktop icons.

Customize Start Menu

This tool will help you arrange Desktop environment, Start Menu and Quick Launch in blink of an eye! It will sort your software into groups, help set or delete shortcuts on Desktop and Quick Launch. Save you time through a smart work environment - make it handy and quickly!

StormWindow 98

Cetus StormWindow [TM] for Windows 98 will allow the authorized user to add several types of protections to the desktop and system of a Windows 98 computer. Intelligent use of StormWindow security measures will allow secure use of any shared Windows 98 PC. StormWindow protections would probably be most useful to a system administrator at a school or business.

1st Security Administrator Pro

Restrict access to Windows applications, protect PC, password-protect boot, apply access restrictions to PC, protect your privacy, deny access to Control Panel, disable interruption boot keys, context menus, DOS, Registry editing, Internet and network access. Hide desktop icons, disk drives, Start Menu items, taskbar, task manager, tray icons. Professional security tools let you apply password protection to Windows, control Internet, spy on PC.

Advanced Security Level

Secure your PC and restrict access to it with Advanced Security Level. It gives you an excellent administrative support to control the users access rights for your computer by setting up the desired access control level for each user. You can restrict access to Control Panel applets and to running specific applications; hide desktop icons, local and network drives; disable Start Menu items, DOS, boot keys, Registry editing, taskbar and much more. Utilities shareware listed in security tools.

Remote Media Desktop Manager

Manage your desktop icons, background image and media message on your LAN or home network. This software is great for Network managers who want to control the Desktops within their network and keep desktops clean and tidy. It even allows you to add your own Media message (video, image or HTML) that can be displayed on the remote Desktops within the network. Simply specify a LAN path and place your files there, and every time the computer is. This utilities software is categorized under desktop other.

ATS Warning! The Boss!

Do you need to hide windows from others? To surf the net without anyone seeing the contents of the sites you connect to? To keep a conversation by means of a messenger (such as ICQ)? To enter the number of your bank account with total privacy? Warning! The Boss! will let you preserve your privacy, hiding the windows of your application, the icons in the systray, the icons in your desktop and silencing your PC. English and Spanish

Tropical Aquarium ScreenSaver

Beautiful screensaver features over 30 animated sea creatures. Many breeds of tropical fish plus sharks, whales, mermaids, crabs, clams, sea horses, scuba divers, and the sinking mafia snitch! This screensaver is fully customizable, allowing you to add and remove sea creatures, music, sound effects, and more! Register now and get a Theme Pack containing over 100 desktop icons, desktop wallpapers, and animated cursors.

3D Crash Icons Screensaver

This beautiful 3D screensaver takes over a screen shot of your desktop. In the screensaver was added real physics engine which makes collisions between icons look very realistic like in real world. User can also set one of five smooth camera moves so you are able to see your desktop from many various 3D perspectives. You can even set your own MP3 as a custom soundtrack and many more featuresy more features.

KidSplorer

This internet utility is an innovative web browser that allows your kids to safely browse the internet. Only KidSafe web sites can be safely browsed, all other sites are automatically blocked. Plus, you can schedule when KidSplorer can be used and prevent access to other programs. Now you can rest assured that your kids will not be able to visit objectionable sites or access inappropriate material.

A2Soft Tray Utilities

This tool is a nice launch program developed to let you quickly run your favorite applications, documents and URLs, open folder, system folders and Control Panel applets directly from the system tray. You also can create multiple custom lists of programs to be run as a group and you gain instant access to all Microsoft Office applications installed on your computer and to your Network Connections.

Halloween ScreenSaver

Journey through our 3-D haunted cemetery as the undead rise from their graves and frolic in the moonlight. Skeletons, zombies, rats, crows, ghosts, and other unholy creatures dance through tombstones as disturbing sounds and dreary music fills the air. Every part of the screensaver is customizable from the characters, to the chilling music and sound effects. Registered users get a bonus Theme Pack containing over 500 icons, cursors & backgrounds.

Transparent Window Manager

This software helps you to manage your windows settings. You may set transparency of any window required. You may place any window to the top of others. Moreover you may disable input for any window. This gives you opportunity to productive work with graphical and other programs using small and middle size displays.

ActivIcons

Customize the Windows desktop icon and cursor attributes. Use animated icons, swap your own icons for Network Neighborhood, My Computer, Favorites and other icons which Windows places on your desktop and Explorer. It also lets you change default mouse cursors, make icon text labels transparent, change icon text color, replace Windows startup/shutdown screens, repair icons, change the Start button, save/restore icon positions, more...

Advanced Desktop Shield

This tool - protect public access PCs, stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screen saver, deleting, creating and renaming desktop icons, changing display settings and so on. Backup, restore and manage desktop layouts, which include desktop files and folders, placement of desktop icons, wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock desktop layout, each time PC is rebooted, the program will return everything on the deskt

Wallpaper Slideshow LT

Wallpaper Slideshow is a great utility for displaying your favorite photos as desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow offers you complete control on your wallpapers collection and allows you to easily set your favorite images (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP) as desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow is simple to use, intuitive and complete with full context-sensitive help. Utilities freeware listed in desktop enhancements, enhancement utilities, wallpaper tools tools.

Yellow Icon Collection

Yellow icon collection by Nika is a new collection of high quality icons for your blogs, websites and applications. It includes such popular icons as desktop icons, hardware icons, e-mail icons, arrows icons, numbers icons, music icons and other. This icon pack contains 106 icons in 4 formats and many sizes from 16x16 to 128x128 pixels. Designed style - yellow.

Instyler SmartSetup

This development tool creates user-friendly and professional setup programs for your software projects. SmartSetup supports multiple languages, setup types by organising files in components, does registry/ini file processing, creates start menu entries and desktop icons, uses system file path variables, supports ocx registration and can also create environment variables and surely features an included uninstaller

KidSplorer Web Browser

KidSplorer web browser provides an organized browsing environment for your children ensuring safe and controlled online activities. The parental control feature limits your child to specific web sites, and automatically blocks all other web sites. You can limit the computer use by scheduling the amount of time your children can spend on the internet. Plus you can set KidSplorer as your childs default web browser.