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DeskIcons
A tiny Windows utility (about 120 KB, no installer) that sends any window to the desktop as a draggable label, the way Windows 3.1 used to put minimized programs on the desktop.
Using it
Run DeskIcons.exe. It lives in the system tray.
- Send a window to the desktop: hold Shift and click the window's minimize button, or press Ctrl+Alt+I while the window is active. The window leaves the taskbar and appears on the desktop as a label with its title.
- Move it: drag the label anywhere.
- Bring it back: double-click the label.
- Right-click a label to restore or close that window.
Tray menu options:
- Restore all windows
- Show program icons (off by default, text only)
- Keep icons on top of windows (off by default, labels sit at desktop level)
- Start with Windows
- Exit (brings every held window back)
If DeskIcons is closed unexpectedly, it remembers which windows it was holding and rebuilds their labels the next time it starts.
Notes
- Windows from programs running as administrator can only be grabbed if DeskIcons also runs as administrator.
- The exe is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time. Choose "More info" and then "Run anyway."
Building
Plain Win32 C, no dependencies beyond the standard Windows DLLs.
sh build.sh
Requires MinGW-w64 (x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc and windres).