Program for managing desktop icons. Convenient storage of shortcuts from the desktop! Getting started with the program

Windows is the most popular in the world operating system, and currently it runs about 92% of personal computers, according to Net Applications.com (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/). Such an impressive figure clearly indicates that the developers of this OS really managed to create a reliable and easy-to-use system. However, as you know, the ideal is always unattainable, and therefore, with all the advantages of Windows, it can be made even more convenient by connecting a number of utilities from third-party manufacturers. It is these programs that will be discussed in this article.

Tidying up your Windows desktop

On the PC desktop, chaos reigns for many users: shortcuts, files, folders, images and web links are scattered around them often without any logic. As a result, the easiest and fastest way to access data and launch applications - that is, from the desktop - in practice turns out to be not so fast at all, because it often takes a long time to find the right one among the host of shortcuts. For the convenience of organizing shortcuts, folders, files and links on the desktop, you can set wallpaper with multi-colored fragments and distribute shortcuts and other elements on the table to them. In the future, this will help significantly save search time.

However, there is an even better way - use the free for non-commercial use utility Fences (http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/; 9.03 MB; $ 19.95). With its help, it is easy to instantly put things in order on the desktop, conveniently distributing chaotically scattered shortcuts among thematic blocks (Fig. 1). These blocks are highlighted on the desktop and, of course, delimited, which allows you to quickly find the necessary elements. The easiest way to carry out such a reorganization of the desktop is to choose one of the ready-made Fences layouts, as a result of which icons and other elements are automatically grouped according to their category (programs, files and documents, folders, etc.). After that it will be possible to manually correct the position and size of the blocks, their name, transparency level and color, as well as a number of other parameters. If none of the built-in layouts liked, then the developers provide for alternative way reorganize your desktop by developing your own layout. For such a layout, all blocks are created manually, and desktop elements are also manually distributed over them.

Figure: 1. The result of organizing the desktop using Fences

Along with the chaotically scattered shortcuts on the desktop, a pile of open windows creates no less problems when working, switching between which in practice is not so easy if more than five to ten (ten, of course, only in the case of a widescreen monitor) window buttons are already placed on the taskbar ... And it also takes a lot of time to arrange the windows on the screen so that they do not overlap each other. Dealing with the named problems is not difficult if you include such free utilities as WinSplit Revolution and GhostWin.

Adopting the WinSplit Revolution utility (http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/; 1.49 MB), you can quickly adjust the position and size of windows in the visible screen space to ensure more productive work with them. The screen can be automatically split into several parts (from two to six), each of which will display the windows selected by the user (Fig. 2). Thus, you no longer have to spend time dragging windows around the screen, and the working space of the screen will be used more efficiently. Obviously, users working on modern large-format monitors with high resolution will get the most benefit from this utility, since the screen sizes of such monitors allow you to easily arrange multiple windows, giving each of them its own piece of workspace. It is not difficult to manage the window placement using WinSplit Revolution: you can arrange the desired windows in the desired way by pressing certain keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + Alt + 1, Ctrl + Alt + 2, etc.) or by clicking on the buttons of the pop-up panel invoked by clicking on system tray icon. The good news is that after restarting the computer, there is no need to restore the location of the windows, since the program (with the appropriate settings) remembers the coordinates and sizes of windows on the desktop and restores them in exactly the same form after the restart.

Figure: 2. Possible variant quick placement of working windows
with WinSplit Revolution

A program for sorting icons on your computer desktop into any category. Allows you to arrange icons if there are too many of them.

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Windows 8 showed us that the PC workspace can have a maybe not quite familiar, but convenient tiled interface. However, not everyone appreciated this innovation and were able to abandon the usual Desktop.

And why? The desktop is quite comfortable, roomy, and its functional component can be expanded with a variety of widgets. And it will be no worse than in the notorious "Eight".

However, the Desktop has one nasty property - over time, heaps of labels accumulate on it, which we do not always use, or use very rarely ...

But, fortunately, this trouble is not so terrible :). If you have firmly decided once and for all to put things in order in the icons on the Desktop, then the program can help you with this. sTabLauncher.

Comparison with paid analogue

At its core, sTabLauncher is a kind of dock bar, so its closest paid analogue is the popular ObjectDock:

sTabLauncher may not be as functional as paid analog, but, nevertheless, the wave performs its duties regularly. And in terms of customization, it even overtakes ObjectDock, since it allows you to customize literally all interface elements!

Program installation

Before installing, make sure that you have installed .NET Framework libraries at least version 2. If anything, you can download them from the official Microsoft website.

If everything is in order with the libraries, then you can run the program installer from the downloaded archive. Then press the Next button until we reach the next window:

Here we will be offered to install the popular Babylon translator, the basic version of which is free, but additional functions activated by subscription only. I advise you to give up unnecessary software "ballast" by checking the item "Don’t Install Babylon 9". Next, we complete the installation in the usual way for us, without changing anything.

Getting started with the program

After installation, sTabLauncher will not start itself, as other programs usually do, so to get started, we need to launch the utility using a shortcut on the desktop. At the first launch, the application will ask us to select the interface language. Naturally, we select "Russian" (if we skip this step, we will get the English version):

After choosing the language, click "Ok" and a translucent menu for launching sTabLauncher programs will appear in front of us at the top of the screen:

If you hover over one of the tabs of this menu, it will expand, and we will see the shortcuts of the applications placed there by default:

Any shortcuts can be replaced or removed altogether, and by sorting the icons we need into different tabs, we can achieve a complete cleaning of the Desktop from unnecessary icons. Moreover, the advantage of this organization of shortcuts is the ability to quickly access them from any application!

That is, if earlier, in order to get to the Desktop, we had to collapse open windows, then now it will be enough for us to just move the cursor to the top of the screen. This has its drawbacks, but we will talk about them and their elimination a little below.

Program menu

The main menu of the program is called by right-clicking on the free area of \u200b\u200bthe main panel with shortcuts:

Here we have access to the program settings, quickly add shortcuts and separators, and pin pop-up menu items. The last block of functions needs further explanation:

  1. "Pin icons" means prohibiting the ability to move them inside the tab.
  2. Lock Tabs - Prevents moving the tab positions of the main menu.
  3. "Dock Panel" means to lock the function of changing the position of the pop-up menu.

Accordingly, if none of the above options is activated, then we can use drag and drop to change the structure of the program launch menu as we please!

Ways to add new shortcuts to the sTabLauncher panel

There are two ways to add a new shortcut to sTabLauncher. The easiest way is to drag the desired icon onto the panel directly from the Desktop or from any folder. At the same time, the new icon automatically resizes in accordance with the settings of the tab, and also receives a signature from the name of the shortcut.

After adding an icon to the launcher, the original shortcut from the Desktop can be removed - we no longer need it.

If you want to change an existing icon in the menu quick launch or add a new and unique one, then the corresponding items of the context menu will come in handy - "Settings" (for existing shortcuts) and "Add item" (for new ones):

In the screenshot above, you can see the result of adding a new shortcut for my working folder with articles and programs. If we look at the "Icon Properties" window, we can conditionally divide it into four parts:

  1. "Picture". This is the first section, which is located at the top left of the window. It allows you to superimpose arbitrary text on the selected icon, which is specified in the "Title" field. For the created inscription, you can set any font, size, color and position.
  2. "Application". This section (top right) allows you to set the address of an application, folder or website that should open when you click on the icon. The "Title" field here is responsible for displaying the caption that pops up when you hover over the shortcut, and the "Application" contains the address of the resource to open. For programs, launch functions with parameters and keys are also available here. In addition, this section contains three more tabs that allow you to add and configure the separator, player and plugins (unfortunately, none of them could be launched on my PC :().
  3. "Current Image". Contains a preview of the finished icon with all the effects applied to it.
  4. "Available Images". Here we have displayed options for the icons of the selected program. If the program (or folder) does not have an icon, then we can either select any image as the last (the "Add" button or by simple dragging), or specify one of the standard icons (the "System" button).

After completing the work on adding an element, it will be enough for us to click the "Ok" button and it (the element) will appear in the place we specified.

Program settings

So far we have figured out only how to manage the contents of the sTabLauncher panel. Now we will learn how to control the behavior and appearance of the program! To do this, call the main context menu and click on the "Settings" item:

The settings window consists of seven sections, each of which contains its own parameters. By default, the "General" tab opens in front of us. Here we can choose:

  • the position of the launch menu (if you select "Bottom", you will either have to change the settings for the menu position, or hide the standard Windows taskbar, since it will simply close the sTabLauncher panel);
  • autostart of the program (although, even if you do not activate it, the program will start together with the system;
  • language (if you forgot to change it when you first started the program);
  • functions of import and export of settings.

Launchpad Appearance Settings

What impresses me about sTabLauncher is the ability to fine-tune the appearance of its tabs. To do this, use the "Tabs" settings section:

From this window, we can "Add" new tabs or "Delete" or change the currently selected tab. For each section of the panel, we can set the description parameters (title, its appearance and position), as well as the style.

The latter consists of settings for edges, background, tab tab, and background color. In addition, we can add a PNG icon for any tab. To do this, click the "Browse" button in the "Icon" section and select one of the standard or your own picture.

If standard themes are not enough for you, you can download additional skins from a special section of the official website.

Also, you can add a special type of tab - a music tab:

To do this, click the "Add Music Tab" button in the "Quick Setup" section. It is a plugin that allows you to play playlists and online radio stations without a large number of which, you will find on the tab, after its activation.

Other program settings

Among other settings, we can mention the ability to customize all icons on the sTabLauncher tabs (section "Icons"), animation of the menu appearance and its behavior (corresponding settings tabs). Separately, I would like to dwell on one nuance, which I mentioned at the beginning of the article.

The fact is that in the open position the program panel overlaps a part of the workspace in the upper (or lower) part of the screen. It is very "annoying" when working in full screen mode (for example with a web browser).

To prevent the launch menu from blocking the work area, you can simply hide it using the settings:

To do this, go to the "Advanced" tab and activate the item "Hide sTabLauncher completely when docking to screen borders".

We have achieved complete hiding of the menu, but when you move the cursor to the top of the screen, it still slides out. To minimize the percentage of false positives, we need to minimize the "Distance to start panel transfer" slider. You can also increase the delay to bring up the menu. This can be done in the "Behavior" tab in the "Open sTabLauncher" section.

The last thing I would like to mention is the ability to work with sTabLauncher in portable mode. That is, we can store all the settings in a special file in the program folder, which will allow us to transfer our startup menu without changes, for example, after reinstalling the system!

To do this, in the "Advanced" tab, activate the item "Keep the configuration file on the application's directory".

Advantages and disadvantages of the program

  • the ability to work with tabs;
  • the ability to hide the launcher;
  • ample opportunities to customize the appearance of the program;
  • support for Internet shortcuts;
  • the ability to add separators.
  • there is no function of grouping shortcuts into nested submenus;
  • no tab scrolling function;
  • required additional settings to display the menu at the bottom of the screen.

conclusions

sTabLauncher is a completely modern and functional dock bar that can work on all windows versions... Personally, I liked it for its customization capabilities. Unlike its counterparts, this program allows you to customize the launchpad in such a way that it is completely hidden, thereby not blocking the workspace!

Therefore, if you want to reduce the number of icons on the desktop and have access to the most frequently used programs, folders, documents and even websites, then sTabLauncher may be your choice!

P.S. It is allowed to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.

Any person actively working at a computer has a lot of program icons, various documents, folders, links, etc. on the Desktop. Over time, finding something in this dump of dozens and hundreds of icons becomes more and more difficult.

It would seem that the solution to this issue is quite simple: to group the icons right on the Desktop by their purpose, or by some other of your criteria. But, unfortunately, this solution is not durable ... The arrangement of the icons quite often spontaneously gets lost and after that they have to be ordered again.

The icons on the desktop are bound to break when changing the display resolution settings. For example, I often connect a large external monitor to my laptop, which has a screen resolution that is not at all the same as that of a laptop. And, of course, every such connection breaks the grouping of icons on the desktop.

In the computer world, since there is a problem, then for sure they have already come up with some kind of solutions! So in this case ... Earlier I used the Enterra Icon Keeper program to solve this problem, which was created just for this. But, firstly, it does not always do its job, it is morally outdated, you need to manually switch icon sets, and you also need to remember to save the new configuration after adding each new icon.

Recently, I have been using a much more comfortable, elegant and functional program - Fences You can download it from here.

This program allows you to collect desktop icons into separate groups, each of which has its own name and looks like a shaded semi-transparent window. Actually, such a group is called the word " fence", which can be translated as" fence "or" fence ".

This is how my main desktop looks now (click to enlarge).

You can create these groups very easily and simply, drag and drop the necessary icons into them, adjust their sizes, appearance, position on the desktop, etc. It is very convenient that when switching the screen resolution, the sizes of these groupsautomatically adjust under the new screen resolution. Now I no longer need to do multiple settings configurations for different screen resolutions and switch these configurations manually!

After installing Fences, it will create three groups on your desktop: Programs, Folders, and Files and Documents. To add a new group, you just need to right-click in an empty area of \u200b\u200bthe screen and drag the cursor a little across the screen while holding down the mouse button. As a result, a shaded window of the new group will appear on the screen and a menu of two items will appear:
- Create Fence here (Create group here)
- Create Folder Portal here (Create group here from folder)

What other useful tricks does Fences have ...

As I have already said, the "windows" of the groups themselves are translucent, and therefore, in principle, through them you can see your wonderful picture of the Desktop, on the selection of which you probably spent a lot of time. But it is not very visible, especially if there are many icons on the screen. Therefore, sometimes it is very convenient to quickly clear the Desktop of all icons and groups. This is done very simply: by double-clicking the left mouse button anywhere on the screen, free of icons. All this economy is returned to the screen by the same double-click on the screen.

IN latest version programs ( Fences 2.0), new wonderful features have been added that take the convenience of working at a computer to a new level.

Now you can automatically sort your files and program icons into appropriate groups using the function Auto-Organizer (auto-ordering). This function allows you to set rules: which files will be included in which group. This is useful if you add new files frequently.

Function Folder Portals (Folder Portals) allows you to create a group (in the sense of a fence) from any folder for quick access to its contents right on the Desktop.

To create such a group, you need to drag the folder to an empty space while holding down the Alt key. Another way: right-click on the folder and select from the menu that appears " Show this folder on the desktop"(Show this folder on the desktop.) After that, you can resize the group by simply" stretching "it by the edges, and also customize the appearance of files in it and arrange them the way you like.

If you actively use Folder Portal (groups of folders), you will quickly find that there is not enough space on one screen for everything you would like to have at hand. And here another function of the program comes in handy: Screen Pages (Screen pages). It allows you to have multiple "virtual screens" and quickly switch between them.

There are several ways to switch between "Screen Pages":
- click the left mouse button on the left or right side of the screen and drag the mouse along the screen without releasing the mouse button (like on a smartphone);
- click the mouse in any part of the desktop and then simultaneously press the Alt key and the "Right" or "Left" key.

But when I tried to switch screens for the first time, nothing worked for me. It turned out that you first need to drag something to the second screen: an icon or a group. This operation is also very simple (like everything else in this program) ... Left-click on the icon or group header, "drag" this object to the left or right border of the screen, and hold it there for a second. After that, the next "Screen Page" appears, onto which we "drop" the dragged object.

Note that Folder Portals (Folder portals) and Screen Pages (Screen Pages) only work under Windows 7 and above.

The latest version of Fences is no longer free (it costs $ 9.99). There is a trial period (for 30 days), allowing you to evaluate in practice its capabilities and feel the benefits of it.

I find Fences to be the most useful of the numerous class of desktop programs. I think people will like her loving order in everything, or just a lot of working at the computer.

Sergey Gundorov, Software from PSoft:

A program for sorting icons on your computer desktop into any category. Allows you to arrange icons if there are too many of them.

Despite the fact that new versions of Windows are trying to find all new approaches to organizing the workspace, the familiar desktop is clearly not going to give up its positions. After all, you must agree that it is very convenient to have all the most necessary shortcuts, folders and documents always before your eyes ...

The only problem is that over time, piles of icons begin to accumulate on our desktop, without which we "well, we just can't do" :). I, too, to be honest, suffer from the "mania" for storing icons, and before my monitor was so crammed with them that there was no free space.

But one day, carrying out another "cleaning", I decided to look for how others cope with this problem. The result of my searches was the program that will be discussed in today's article.

How the program works

Fences is one of the few apps that lets you quickly create partitions on your desktop to group your shortcuts, folders and files. The principle of the program is that you create special areas on your desktop - "Fence" (from the English "fence"), and shield them with an unlimited number of icons (when the "fence" is filled, vertical scrolling appears).

Thus, in one section you can cram an almost unlimited number of icons, thereby freeing up space on your desktop!

Comparison of Fences FREE with the paid version of Fences PRO

Fences comes in two versions: free and paid. Therefore, I propose to compare the functionality of both editions:

In fact, all the advantages of the paid version are reduced to additional beauties and do not affect the functionality of the program in general. The only thing that, in my opinion, is really missing is the ability to use auto-sorting :(. But, as they say, each barrel of honey has a fly in the ointment :)

Installing Fences

To start working with the program, first of all we need to install it on our PC. To do this, as always, download the archive with the installer and run the file from it fences_public.exe.

After starting it, the program installation wizard will appear, which, despite the English-language interface, is very simple and straightforward - all the work, in fact, consists in constantly pressing the "Next" button.

After the installation is complete, the following window will appear in front of you:

Here we are offered to either choose a ready-made layout for placing sections on the desktop, or create our own sections ourselves. If you want, of course, you can click on the first button and use the standard options, but I suggest clicking the second and "Create fences yourself"!

Creating a new section for icons

After pressing the second button, the program settings window will appear in front of you (we will work with it in the future) on the "Fences" tab:

Here is a thumbnail of the desktop with the sections placed on it. Since we have not created a single “fence”, nothing is displayed on the thumbnail either. But this is not for long :).

In order to learn how to create your own sections manually, you can click the "Create fence" link under the thumbnail and read the text that appears, or you can read our article further;)

So, everything is extremely simple! To create a new partition, just hold down the right mouse button on the free space of the desktop and, while holding it, pull it a little to the side (as if highlighting files).

After that, a selection will indeed appear, and on the side of it (after releasing the mouse) the button “Create new fence here”. Click on the button and get the opportunity to set a name for our section:

For example, let's create a “fence” “My Computer” and put standard shortcuts into it, such as My Computer, Network Neighborhood, My Documents, etc. To do this, simply select the necessary icons and drag them into the section we have created. Everything is ready! :)

Fences settings

After creating your first "fence", you can, in principle, leave the program alone and "fence" the following sections. However, you can "tinker" a little and slightly change the appearance of our areas with icons.

If there is such a desire, then you need to move the mouse over the newly created section and call its context menu by right-clicking:

In the menu, in addition to the standard set of commands for the desktop, we will see four points related to the work of Fences. The items "Delete" and "Rename", I think, do not need additional explanations.

The item "Hide desktop icons" allows, oddly enough, to completely hide all shortcuts, leaving the bare desktop :). Such a function may appeal to radical users who want to contemplate a beautiful background image or try to play a trick on their friends :).

After the first activation of this function, a soothing window will appear, which explains to us where everything disappeared:

As you can see from the explanation, the shortcuts will be hidden by double-clicking the left mouse button on the free space of the desktop. A second double click will return everything as it was :). In order not to see the above window every time, it is enough to tick the box “Do not show this message again”.

However, now we are most interested in the item "Configure Fences". After its activation, we will see the already somewhat familiar window of program settings. However, this time we will need to go to the second section "View":

Here, as can be seen from the screenshot, you can configure the display mode of the section names (I advise you to set "Always", but here for an amateur :)), the style and background color, as well as the color of the section name and a few additional parameters.

Using the runners, you can customize any shade of your "fences" and achieve their maximum harmony with the wallpaper of your desktop.

Additional program parameters

In the program settings window, we examined the first two tabs, however, if you like to thoroughly understand all the intricacies of applications, then you definitely need to, at least with one eye, look into the third section - "Service":

On the first page of the "Service" tab, you will find two options. The first one concerns hiding desktop icons by double clicking. This function can be either completely disabled, or you can specify exceptions: icons that will always be displayed.

The second function concerns taking screenshots of the desktop, which fix the position of the created partitions. You can take several screenshots with different positions of "fences", and using the function of restoring the position of partitions, you can quickly change their placement:

However, these two functions are not all ... At the bottom you can see the link "Additional parameters", by clicking which you can go to the second page of the "Service" tab:

Here we get access to two more functions. The first concerns preserving the proportions of the created sections when changing the screen resolution. If you sometimes have to change the screen size, then this feature will be very useful.

The second feature, Auto Layout, lets you sort all your desktop icons into standard categories with one click. However, this approach to sorting is very doubtful, therefore, it is better to spend a little time and manually put everything into place, than then look for where the automation has hidden the necessary document :)

Finally, the last checkbox allows you to enable / disable Fences.

Since the "Help" and "About" tabs will not give us any new information, the acquaintance with Fences can be considered over :). It's time to look at the results of our efforts:

In my opinion, it looks pretty nice :) Dozens of shortcuts, folders and files, which used to occupy the entire desktop, are quite compactly arranged in just four columns. In addition, we created the categories ourselves, which means that we can easily and quickly find the data we need!

Pros and cons of Fences

  • compact placement of many icons on the desktop;
  • creating your own categories for sorting;
  • the ability to customize the appearance of areas with icons;
  • the ability to quickly hide all icons;
  • integration into explorer.exe to save system resources.
  • longer windows boot (if you have an old PC);
  • there is no way to sort icons within sections;
  • sometimes after exiting full-screen applications (for example, games), the position of the icons spontaneously changes.

conclusions

In conclusion, I would like to say that it is still preferable to periodically clean your desktop and store a minimum amount of information on it. However, most often you have to observe a picture when there is absolutely no order on the desktop, and icons and folders sometimes take up almost all the space.

Therefore, if you really don't want to completely abandon a bunch of icons, then you can, at least visually, put things in order in the workspace by installing the Fences program.

P.S. It is allowed to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.

It is much better when the desktop is clean, beautiful wallpapers are set and there is quick access to all the shortcuts that were once on the desktop... How to do this, I will tell you in this post ...

Putting things in order on your desktop!

To put a complete order on the desktop, we will help the wonderful program "FreeLaunch".
FreeLaunch is designed for convenient storage of shortcuts from the Desktop, you can also store folders, documents and much more in it.

What I liked most about this program is that you can create up to eight tabs, that is, it is possible to group shortcuts into categories - Programs, Games, etc.

The program is capable of containing 600 elements.
Judge for yourself, you can fit 75 elements on one tab, and 8 tabs, it turns out 75 * 8 \u003d 600. Excellent result, it's even a lot!

How shortcuts are quickly accessed.
The program sits quietly and does not interfere with the work in the system tray (This is where the clock is). One click on the icon allows you to expand the program and gain access to shortcuts, while you do not need to minimize all the windows that are open in the system and look for the application you need on the desktop, in a heap of shortcuts ...

Program setting
The setup is pretty straightforward. By default, after the first launch, the program looks like this:

In order to place a shortcut in the program, you just need to drag it from the Workstation to one of the free cells of the program, and the shortcut itself can already be removed from the Workstation.

App supports Russian language, but the default is English.
To install the Russian language, go to the settings. In the System Tray, RMB (Right Mouse Button) click on the program icon, and select " Settings»

The program settings window will open, select the Russian language and click the "ok" button

Now the program is completely in Russian and that's good!

So, the Russian language is installed, you can continue further with the convenience of disassembling the program settings.
As you may have already noticed, there are not many settings, and there is nothing complicated, but briefly about the main thing.

Field " Tabs»Here the user is given the opportunity to specify how many tabs he needs to have in the program, as I said above, you can put up to 8 tabs. To rename a contribution, right-click on it and select rename:

Field " Rows»This is how many rows of cells will be displayed horizontally. The default is only 2 rows, the largest number of rows is 5.

Field " Buttons"By default, 10 buttons are displayed - these are the same cells where you need to drag shortcuts. You can specify up to 15 pieces.

Field " Gap"This opportunity. Most likely useful for visually impaired people. With this feature, you can specify the distance between cells from 1 to 5 pixels.

Of the rest of the settings, it is worth paying attention Startup and concealment programs after starting the system.
If you prohibit the program from starting with the system, then after starting, you will have to manually launch the program in order to gain access to the shortcuts. I recommend leaving autorun.

As for hiding at start, then here, as it is convenient for anyone. I checked the "Hide at start" checkbox, as after launching, I first need a browser, and it is pinned to the taskbar and only then the rest of the applications ....
(To be honest, I completely forgot the last time I shut down my PC.).

Title, Tab type, icon size - here at your discretion, as you like best, I left everything as it is !!!

Now thanks to “ FreeLaunch»I have a clean Desktop, and my wife keeps asking why I removed all the shortcuts from the Desktop :)

Perhaps this is the time to end the post, it seems that I did not forget anything important and said everything I wanted.