Any programs to make desktop icons smaller/tidier?

[xTobyMc]

One thing I like to do is have a really clean and organised desktop on my PC. The problem is, I find the smallest icon size Windows 7 offers as too big for my liking, and I would like to make them even smaller or more organised somehow.

Does anyone know of any cool (and preferably free) programs which allow you to perhaps shrink icons to optimal size, or provide a better and more organised way of displaying them? I have used things like rocketdock in the past, but I wasn't such a big fan of it, and I would have to wait about 2 minutes for rocketdock to load when my computer booted up.

Any suggestions would be great, and it'd be cool to know how you guys organise your desktops.

Thanks,
Toby

 

[User0one]

How small. Have you tried a Higher Resolution. I use 1600x1200, and have Icons set to Small. They are probably less then a quarter of inch in size.

 

[Troncoso]

I use fences. It lets you create boxes on your desktop (You can make them invisible), and you can hold the icons in it. My favorite feature is that you can double click the destop to hide all the icons.
Anyway, I think it costs $10 for the newest version. It used to be free.

 

[AntimatterAsh]

How small. Have you tried a Higher Resolution. I use 1600x1200, and have Icons set to Small. They are probably less then a quarter of inch in size.

Higher resolutions are not a good way to fix this, as Monitors can display non-optimal resolutions as unclear, or unrecognizable. Try going to personalization, Window Colour, Advanced Window Settings and having a fiddle with those controls to alter widths of icons?

 

[soybean]

Higher resolutions are not a good way to fix this, as Monitors can display non-optimal resolutions as unclear, or unrecognizable. Try going to personalization, Window Colour, Advanced Window Settings and having a fiddle with those controls to alter widths of icons?

For most monitors, the highest resolution is the "native resolution", or the resolution that provides the sharpest, clearest display. It's the smaller than native resolution settings that "can display non-optimal resolutions as unclear, or unrecognizable."