“Fences” by Stardock is a free desktop management program for you desktop shortcuts. If you have to spend time looking for things on your desktop, you have way to many shortcuts and should consider downloading Fences.
One way to better manage your shortcuts is with an small app called Fences.
Here is my desktop before fences. I don't have a lot of icons but I like grouping my icons by use. Which is exactly what Fences allows you to do.
Perfect!
Fences corrals your icons into windows on your desktop making things easy to find.
Fences are just windows that you create and label to keep your programs, documents and other shortcuts organized.
Transparency settings allow you to make the borders seamless, so the desktop looks neat and is organized the way you want it.
You can choose from an existing fences layout (there are several)or create your own as I did. This appealed to my sense of design.
To create your own use your right mouse button to create new fences. On the desktop, depress the right mouse button, drag it to draw a rectangle and release this creates a fence.
Then select create fence and give your fence a name. Then drag your Icons into the fenced in area. You can edit how your fences look (color, text and transparency). You can also select which fences to hide and which to never hide.
This is my desktop nice and organized! 
If you want to hide your fences double click on the desktop and they disappear to make them reappear double click again and they return.
If your icons don’t fit in the fence you created, the fence will put a scroll bar so that you can scroll through your icons. If you need a scroll bar, maybe you really do have too many shortcuts.
The desktop background is a photo from the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton New Jersey taken early this spring.
On my wish list for improvements;
- I wish it took less steps to create a fence.
- I wish that you could create rules that would allow you to add certain shortcuts or program icons to fences you have already created without dragging them.
Stardock are you listening?
Otherwise I really like this little program and recommend it to help contain desktop clutter.
You can download it from the Stardock's website or download.com.
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I have bookmarked this and will put on my to do list. I have been hoping for something like this. What a great little program.