Are you one of those people who has tons of icons on their desktop? If you find yourself wasting a lot of time searching through icons, Fences might be a program for you. It’s a free app that lets you create containers on your desktop to organize your icons, files and folders. Very useful!

Fences – Organize Your Desktop

If you’re one of those people who love to move icons all over the desktop and make pretty little patterns, then you’ll love Shock Desktop. It’s a simple utility that lets you save and recover desktop icon layouts. It also supports dual monitors too!

Shock Desktop

For years, Kol’s Studio TwentyEight has put out outstanding visual applications, from themes to original art. HAL and other quality wallpapers can be found here. 

HAL9000 can be downloaded in many different resolutions.

Kol’s HAL9000 DeviantArt page

Kol’s DA gallery

Jealous of the awesome Windows 7 wallpaper slideshow feature? You might not realize that Microsoft released a similar feature for XP years ago, and it also works on Vista. It’s hidden inside their "Winter Fun Pack", but the Tweaking with Vishal site has you covered with instructions on how to get to it.

Get Windows 7’s “Desktop Background SlideShow” Feature in XP and Vista Using Microsoft’s Official “Winter Fun Wallpaper Changer” Powertoy [Tweaking with Vishal]