Simple, elegant, and insanely practical, Fences corrals all your desktop icons. Tired of icon clutter? Sure, you can organize your desktop shortcuts, programs, folders, and the like by dragging and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s one messy desktop you’ve got. No, not your physical ...

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David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

The default mode of the Desktop is to auto-arrange icons. If you move an icon, delete one, or add a new one, it will rearrange itself. The problem happens when you connect another monitor with a ...

We all love our desktops and the way we arrange icons on it. Sometimes, the arrangement of the icons is lost either because something in the system changed or because you did with the right-click and ...

Reader Robert Drake finds his Mac a little too tidy for his taste. He writes: I noticed that you wrote an article about tidying up your Mac and thought you could help me. My son came over the other ...