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Desktop Icon Toy 1.7.1

Released:	2007-01-21
Last Updated:	2008-04-26
License:	$12.95
Publisher:	iDeskSoft
Language:	English
Platform:	Windows
Requirements:	Windows system
Install:	Install and Uninstall
Downloads:	927
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Publisher's Description:

Desktop Icon Toy - Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to manage your windows desktop icons.

Currently, there are most of similar tools, such as make desktop icon backgrounds transparent, arrange desktop icons. But none of them can animate desktop icons, add hover effects to desktop icons, remove desktop icon texts, and more.

What cool things could you do with Desktop Icon Toy?

Dance Desktop Icons
You can drag and drop desktop icons to run around the desktop, and double click the desktop to stop the running icons.

Hover Effects
You can add visual effects when mouse hover desktop icons, like dance icon, shake icon text and blink icon text.

Automatically Hide Desktop Icons
You can automatically hide desktop icons when mouse off the desktop or desktop icon. This can give you a pair of bright eyes to see your beautiful wallpaper.

Arrange Desktop Icons
You can arrange desktop icons by many shapes, such as clock, circle, cross, around and more...
If you like, you can even arrange the icons precisely with <CTRL + Arrow Key>.You can also add animation effects when arrange desktop icons.

Remove Icon Texts
You can remove the classic ugly text of desktop icons, optional, instead of a cool pop-up tooltip. The whole desktop will become neat and tidy.

Lock Desktop Icons
Have you ever need to place some desktop icons in a specific place for better working, but always by careless or windows move them to back? Use this function, you needn't care this problem again. You can also add animation effects for it.

More Funny Things
You can remove all desktop icons, but only keep the icon texts.
You can change desktop icons to report mode, all the icons will become small, and icon texts will be placed on the right of icons.

Other Features
Remove desktop icon shortcut overlay.
Save and restore desktop icon layout.
Transparent the background of desktop icon texts.
Change the font color and background color of desktop icon texts.

Latest Changes:

1: Fixed save/restore layout bug, now it can work well when add/delete icon.

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Version: 1.7.1

time bomb

didn't like the time limit imposed on the user.

Version: 1.7.1

Control Desktop Icons

A very good product that is cost effective but I am currently not using the product since I had a computer crash and I reloaded all of my OEM software so that I no longer need to use Desktop Icon Toy.

But I may use it in the future, should the need arise where I need a desktop icon enhancement tool.

Thanks for interesting Desktop Icon Toy. In the next release, will add more layouts to arrange the desktop icons, like ellipse, triangle and more. Hope you'll like it.

Version: 1.7.1

An Interesting Lttle Utility

1)Since some of the features of the program may cause an unholy mess on the desktop, how about displaying a little warning about this effect and asking the user to save the current layout before proceeding?

2)How about adding a helpful tooltip to the system tray something like
"Please right-click to display options" ?

3)Why did you choose to make the program ignore the common double-click?


Operating System:
Windows XP, Sp1, SP2

Thank you for interesting the program.
1) Do you mean change the icon position use the build-in layout? When first time to run the program, it will automatically save the current layout. Maybe better to display some info.

2) This should be shown only first time, right? Else user will annoy.

3) Do you mean double click the tray icon? Currently it has a single click action. If add a double click. Need to do some trick to determine whether is single click or double click. This will delay the single click action. You can do a test for Windows Volume icon. Single click the Volume icon, it shows slowly.

Version: 1.7.1

Sorry to disappoint

I actually purchased a copy of your program before I downloaded the latest version of a freeware program called Activicons. I'm rather sorry I did that because Activicons fits my needs much better. All I really want is a program to make desktop icon labels invisible substituting a windows style tooltip for the icon when the mouse cursor covers the icon. Activicons does that admirably and also keeps the desktop icon layout when saved plus has some other attributes which are not at present important to me.

Your program substitues an invasive style "tooltip" for the icon and also caused some awkward problems with icon layouts between bootup/shutdown/restart activities. Sorry I don't have more positive comments for you but wish you well for the future of your program.

Thanks, Activicons is a good program. But didn't see the feature to hide icon labels.

What do you mean for the problem with icon layouts? Are you using the latest version?

Any suggestions feel free to contact us.

Version: 1.7.1

Not highly recommended

The ease of use is fair. But it can get you into trouble. I had to repair windows because I let the program delete some important files.

Not sure what files have been deleted. Actually Desktop Icon Toy shouldn't delete any system files.

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