Deskcretary : The Desktop Secretary

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Most people like their desktops to be neat and clean, devoid of any icons and clutter. But do what you may, your desktop gets cluttered with literally hundreds of icons. Sure, some people take out free time to keep their desktops tidy, but no matter how particular we are, often we find our desktop to be a complete mess. Apart from obscuring your jazzy wallpaper, there are several niggles you face because of having a littered desktop. You waste hours trying to locate that one particular file you downloaded months ago, or that important notepad file with some detail you took down – of course you don’t remember its name or you’d use the search function right? The Windows desktop cleanup tool which pops up every now and then is of little use and doesn’t have too many options. Enter Deskcretary – a powerful desktop cleanup application that allows the user to perform manual and scheduled desktop cleanups. It conveniently archives the cleaned up files and provides a file explorer to view, search and restore archived files based on file type and date archived. Quite a nifty little tool that can actually double up as a file management tool.

Getting started

When you install and run the application for the first time, a wizard pops up with several options to configure Deskcretary. Click the next button to set up different attributes such as exclusions, and scheduling. You can choose to set up the application here itself or cancel the wizard to be able to do it one at a time. Once the archiving of the desktop is completed, you get to view all archived files through the application conveniently sorted by file types. It also offers a tree view of archives by date.

Archiving

Before archiving files, click on Tools > Configuration > Archiving tab to set up the archiving parameters. Here, you have two options for dealing with folders on the desktop. The first option is to move each file from a folder into the archive, while the second one lets you compress all the files in the folder (including subfolders) into a single file on the desktop. You’ll find moving files from folders is more convenient and goes through the software’s sorting mechanism. Click OK after selecting the appropriate radio button. Now simply click on the Archive Desktop button at the top-right corner of the interface or hit [Ctrl] + [P]

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