Fences makes a great Desktop

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I happened to be browsing www.stardock.com, looking at their latest 4X gaming offerings, and ran across a product that they claim will help me "clean up my desktop clutter".

If you're anything like me, you keep a ton of links, documents, folders, and other stuff all over your windows desktop (not unlike your physical desktop). I have been manually organizing my clutter for a long time.  PDFs here, Zip Files there, To-Dos up there in the right-hand corner.  My "nightmare" scenario?  Having to do a presentation with my laptop on a projector with less than the native 1920x1080 resolution of my screen.  All of my desktop icons get re-arranged all over the place!

I installed Stardock's Fences about three days ago, and it really has changed the way I interact with my desktop.  For the better!  Here's a look at my desktop with Fences, followed by my favorite feature: double-click on any empty space on your desktop and all your icons are automatically hidden.

Desktop with Fences All desktop icons hidden

I wish I had a picture of my desktop *before* installing Fences, but I never want to go back! It's free for personal use (at least for now).  Here's a short video giving you a demo of the product.

Any other nifty desktop productivity apps you want to recommend?  Shout out in the comments!

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