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D-Color Customises Your Desktop Icons
Posted by Adam Pash at 7:00 AM on August 23, 2008
Windows only: Free Windows utility D-Shell customises your Windows desktop icons, allowing you to switch your icon's text colour, background colour, and icon layout styles. It's a very simple, lightweight app that does just a few things, but if you're a desktop tweaker, it's a great little tool. Try swapping your icons to "Tile Icons" for a nice tweak that gives your icons a more organised stack look. D-Color is freeware, Windows only.
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asl4u
Posted 7:45 AM 23/8/08
I like desktop icons too. They help me remember programs I need to look at, turn on, or otherwise do something with. (For programs I want to try, but once installed, I get sidetracked and go off to do something else)...
good reminders for me - a kind of "to do" list
asl4u
idogis1
Posted 7:41 AM 23/8/08
I actually still like desktop icons. I feel like I'm the only one.
idogis1
Jrsy
Posted 7:33 AM 23/8/08
I usually do not have any more than three or four at any given time. It makes me cringe when I see friends, family members or coworkers with what appears to be an explosion of application shortcuts & folders littering their desktops like heaps of trash..
Jrsy
gundry_pwnd
Posted 7:15 AM 23/8/08
Personally, I despise desktop icons. Sorry.
gundry_pwnd
TendoMentis
Posted 7:06 AM 23/8/08
I wonder just how many lifehackers still have a large collection of desktop icons. It seems when the show-me-your-desktop thing went around, the best desktops were icon-free (owing to the non-cluttered look that makes such desktops look so organized).
Just thinking out loud is all....this particular program still looks interesting.
TendoMentis
pj24
Posted 7:56 AM 23/8/08
@asl4u: Me too, I use the desktop icons as a todo list, and then file documents away in My Docs.
pj24
Phoshi
Posted 8:32 AM 23/8/08
LOLICONS
Lolicon.
After making this connection, I never used icons again.
Phoshi
ep
Posted 8:24 AM 23/8/08
running this alongside iconoid is fantastic, no icons until I click the desktop and then they show up small and neatly arranged. love it.
ep
jsmorley
Posted 9:01 AM 23/8/08
I have zero icons on my desktop. Just an ObjectDock at the bottom.
jsmorley
da5id_nz
Posted 9:00 AM 23/8/08
Before you go installing this on Vista and Xp etc, it might be prudent to mention the warning on the linked site -
Below are some applications that I created a few years ago. These applications were developed before the release of Windows XP, so I am unsure about their compatibility with Windows XP SP-2.
Install at your own risk, I guess.
da5id_nz
monkofevil
Posted 8:59 AM 23/8/08
I remember when I actually posted on an anime forum,
"Lol! Icons."
That didn't go over well, for me anyway.
They all thought I was making fun of their... umm... Lifestyle?
I was commenting on the icons on someones desktop.
monkofevil
VayaConQueso
Posted 8:52 AM 23/8/08
huh?
VayaConQueso
Cyphon
Posted 9:10 AM 23/8/08
I've used D-Color for a long time, but for the sole purpose of viewing my desktop icons in a "list" format with small icons, to preserve desktop space: [img162.imageshack.us]
Cyphon
joelena
Posted 9:10 AM 23/8/08
@VayaConQueso: Though it seems like a stretch (from icon to "lolicon"), I suppose this is what Phoshi is referring to: [en.wikipedia.org]
@Adam: you refer to D-Color as "D-Shell" in the post
joelena
tireless
Posted 3:08 PM 23/8/08
There is a command line tool called "ClearIcon" can do this.
download: [home.comcast.net]
tireless
ep
Posted 3:36 PM 23/8/08
img165.imageshack.us
ep
flash2004
Posted 7:29 PM 23/8/08
after launchy.. i never had any need for desktop icons ;-)
flash2004
kevanio
Posted 1:36 AM 24/8/08
Link broken?
kevanio
amrich
Posted 2:35 AM 24/8/08
yea, whats up with the link?
amrich
acatzr800
Posted 2:45 AM 24/8/08
[www.brothersoft.com]
acatzr800
jfty.009260
Posted 6:26 PM 24/8/08
The only thing that's not good with that is it doesn't preserve the text shadow that's there by default. Any way to set it back?
jfty.009260
dpicts
Posted 1:28 AM 24/8/08
Is anyone one else able to down the program via the link above? Last night I would get a "document not specified" error and now this morning I just get redirected to the hosts main page.
dpicts