Desktop Icon and Ico Software for Windows

12Ghosts SetColor
$22 - 12Ghosts Inc.

Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows.

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Advanced Desktop Shield
$49 - IM-Soft

Advanced Desktop Shield - security utility is a must for public access PCs located in school or university labs, Internet cafes, libraries and other public places where you need to stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screen saver, deleting, creating and renaming desktop icons, changing display settings and so on. With Advanced Desktop Shield you can backup, restore and manage your desktop layout and desktop layouts of your users. Desktop layouts are saved to files, which include all files and folders located on the desktop, placement of desktop icons, desired wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock your desktop layout or desktop layouts of your users, every time you or your users reboot your PC, the program will return everything on the desktop back to the original state: wallpaper, screen saver; deleted icons will be recreated and the new icons will be deleted. Desktop management includes creating desktop layouts for different purposes such as gaming, working, surfing the Internet, and providing different users with their own desktops. Using the program is very simple: just place desktop icons on the desktop to required positions, select wallpaper and screen saver using the Display item of Control Panel, double click program's tray icon and click the Save button to create a new desktop layout file. If desktop icons ever get moved or deleted by user or after entering the safe mode or changing the screen resolution, just open the program and click the Load button to return the desktop to any previously saved state. If you are in the Lock Desktop mode, simply reboot PC to restore desktop automatically.

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ActivIcons
$0 - CursorArts Company

ActivIcons allows you to customize the Windows desktop icon and cursor attributes. Includes the functions you need whether you want to use animated icons on your desktop, or just to replace icons for Network Neighborhood, My Computer, and other icons which Windows places on your desktop and Explorer file manager. It also lets you quickly change the default Windows mouse cursors, make the icon text labels transparent, change the color of desktop icon text descriptions, replace the Windows startup and shutdown screens, rebuild and/or purge the Windows icon cache, increase the size of the Windows desktop cache, replace various drive and folder icons, remove shortcut symbols, restore the desktop default icons, save/restore the positions of desktop icons, change or hide the Start button (limited under XP), replace the IE and OE logo animations, change Favorites icons, and more...

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Easy Desktop Keeper
$49 - Ixis Ltd

Easy Desktop Keeper gives you the ability to save, restore, manage and lock your desktop layout including files and folders located on your desktop, placement of desktop icons, desired wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock your desktop layout, every time you reboot your PC, the program will restore your desktop icons and bring them back to their original positions as well as return your old wallpaper and screen saver to the background. You can create an unlimited number of desktop layouts for different purposes such as gaming, working, surfing the Internet as well as provide different users with their own desktops. Simply place your icons wherever you want them on your desktop, select desired wallpaper and screen saver, double click program's tray icon and click the Save button to create a new desktop layout file. If your icons ever get moved or deleted by any user or after entering the safe mode or changing the screen resolution, just open the program and click the Load button to return your desktop to any previously saved state, or simply reboot your PC if you are in the Lock Desktop mode. Many of you, after meticulously arranging all the icons on your desktop, have been frustrated to no end when somebody else or Windows itself randomly re-arranges them. It is getting more frustrating when you get your icons deleted from your desktop without an ability to recreate them back. System administrators working in educational institutions will realize that Easy Desktop Keeper is just a must for their PC labs because it can be easily used to stop pesky students from changing desktop wallpaper, deleting desktop icons and so on. This easy-to-use utility will give you new exciting abilities to manage and secure your desktop; you'll get rid of a lot of headaches, and get a peace of mind.

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Remote Media Desktop Manager
$25 - Media Creations Ltd

Manage your desktop icons, background image and media message on your LAN or home network. This software is great for Network managers who want to control the Desktops within their network and keep desktops clean and tidy. It even allows you to add your own Media message (video, image or HTML) that can be displayed on the remote Desktops within the network. Simply specify a LAN path and place your files there, and every time the computer is logged on, it will automatically clean up the icons, set the background image and display a media message! Great for schools, LAN, Networks, small offices etc. Anywhere within a local area network or even home network.

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Icon Genesis
$19.95 - Gamers Tower Inc

revolutionary and powerful desktop icon management tool for Windows XP that can increase productivity, save time and boost fun by using Icon Groups and "Live!" Interactive & animated 3D icons.

Icon Genesis brings revolutionary, and easy to use icon management; and takes advantage of today’s high performance PCs by introducing "Live!" Interactive and 3D Animated Icons.

Icon Genesis replaces outdated static icons with the next generation "Live!" Icons. Icon Genesis lets icons interact with mouse cursor by with beautiful 3D animations.

Icon Genesis seamlessly integrates into Windows XP and features easy to use GUI Interface; which lets user quickly and effortlessly customize all product aspects. Icon Genesis comes with 39 3D animations for 13 mostly used Windows icons. Users can use custom GIF animations in 32x32 format for desktop icon animations. The product enables every desktop icon to use up to three GIF animations for the default,
"Mouse-over" and the "selected-icon" animations.

Icon Genesis features unique and extremely intuitive Icon Grouping; which is based on Windows XP Sorting technology. It lets you keep Windows Desktop organized and clean by keeping icons in Groups.
Each Group can store icons by task; such as "Files & Folder", "Program Shortcuts", "Internet Shortcuts", "Office Files", etc.

Icon Grouping can be used simultaneously with the "Live!" Interactive 3D icons.

Icon Genesis provides extreme versatility and ease of use. Users can toggle Icon Groups and/or Icon Animation On/Off and keep or hide default Windows icon arrangement.

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