Here's a set of simple icons to prevent you from littering and, instead, keep everything nice and tidy. I use Dropbox to keep a highly organized, synchronized home folder, which has a place called ...

Icons aren’t the time to get wild and crazy with brand new things no one has ever seen before. Most of the time, it’s best to use symbols that users see elsewhere and feel comfortable with.

DesktopOK is a freeware that les you save, store, lock and restore the arrangement of Windows desktop icons. Save, restore, lock desktop icons easily!

Windows 7 has a new Action Center that lets you fine-tune the notifications, including allowing tray icons or popup notifications on a per-application basis, but for XP or Vista you can always ...