- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (14-day trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: October 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 25,285
- Downloads last week: 180
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A newer version of Desktop Icon Toy is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 7 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on August 07, 2009
Desktop Icon Toy is a fun and useful utility that allows users to customize the display of their desktop icons. The program combines a variety of features in an easy-to-use format.
The program's interface consists of a slide-out menu that's accessed from the system tray, with the program's features neatly arranged within. The online Help file doesn't go into much detail about the program's features, but most of them are fairly self-explanatory, and users should be able to quickly figure them out. The less obvious features have tool-tip explanations that describe their functions. The program allows users to arrange their desktop icons into stars, hearts, polygons, and other shapes. We were particularly impressed with the clock option, which arranges icons into an analog clock that actually keeps time. Of course, this isn't the most practical feature, as it makes it hard to locate a given icon, but it's still cool. The program has more utilitarian options as well, such as the feature to align icons on the top, bottom, and sides of the desktop. There are also effects like animations, icon hiding, and text hiding that make this program both fun and useful. It was easy to play around with features and undo things we didn't like, making the program enjoyable to use, unlike many desktop customizations.
Desktop Icon Toy has a 14-day trial period, which is plenty of time for evaluation. It installs without issues but leaves a folder behind upon removal. We recommend this program to all users.
Publisher's description
From iDeskSoft :Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool, which allows you to make many funny but useful things for your windows desktop icons. It can animate desktop icons, arrange desktop icons into many complex figures, save and restore desktop icon layout, lock icons, hide icon texts and more.
Version 3.3 adds Option to export configurations and adds new layouts shape4, shape5 and shape6.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.3 adds Option to export configurations and adds new layouts shape4, shape5 and shape6.
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User reviews of Desktop Icon Toy 3.3
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Version: Desktop Icon Toy 3.3
"Works well, until you reboot."
Pros: "Align To Top" arranged my icons horizontally (the way I wanted).
Cons: Start Posiition options and Save layout are useless. My icons reverted to the Windows default after reboot.
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Version: Desktop Icon Toy 3.3
Pros: Good Interface, easy to install.
Cons: None at this time.
Summary: This looks like a fun,and useful utility. Unfortunately I'am not able to give a possitive review. It won't work on my Vista Premium 64bit Operating System. I would recommend you to download it and try it. It would be a Dream on WindowsXP 32bit.
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