Fun way to clean up desktop icons

I’m a programmer. When I look at my desktop, I see thousands of icons that take up the entire desktop and I have to look for the icon I’m looking for in order to run any certain program I need. I thought that there was no better way to organize my desktop icons until I found out the program called ObjectDock from Stardock. This program will display tabs and docks on your desktop and I use it as a way to clean up my desktop icons. I have everything organized into tabs which display on the desktop and even come up when I bounce the mouse off the bottom of a screen when I have an application that is maximized on the screen. This program has 2 versions, the paid and free. The paid shows the tabbed docks such as the one in the picture below. The free one only shows docks.

The tabs sit on top of my taskbar and whenever I need them I just either point to them, click on any one of the tabs I need, or if I have a program in front, I bounce the mouse off the bottom of the screen and the tabs appear on top of the application. The picture below shows the tabs when they are expanded.

As you can see in the picture, all those icons are on the dock instead of cluttering my desktop. This is very useful when doing programming and avoids having to fold windows. Plus, it allows me to see my wallpaper without having icons in the way.

ObjectDock has a lot of other features such as the ability to have widgets on the dock such as a weather widget and allow you to replace the taskbar by providing a taskbar tab and system tray tab. It even is skin-able meaning you can change how the tabs look. It’s a very nice program to have on your computer, but only you can see how it helps your needs.