https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/ DeskDrawer is a lightweight desktop organizer for Windows. It groups desktop icons, files, folders and shortcuts into clean transparent boards without moving your files, adding bulky title bars, or changing how your desktop works. One-time purchase. No ads, no telemetry, no subscriptions, no bundled plugins. en Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-0 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-0 Invalid Date First release. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-1 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-1 Invalid Date Double-click reliability and hover-only controls. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-2 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-2 Invalid Date Special desktop icons can be removed from a board. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-3 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-3 Invalid Date Drag out to Explorer, and clipboard both directions. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-4 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-4 Invalid Date Live Recycle Bin icon, and elastic drag between boards. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-5 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-5 Invalid Date Auto-arranging layout, and numbered board names. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-6 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-6 Invalid Date Store packaging, and system icon names taken from Windows. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-7 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-7 Invalid Date Cross-board marquee selection. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-8 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-8 Invalid Date Show or hide native icons from the tray; boards stop minimizing. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-9 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-0-9 Invalid Date Share pane, better clipboard, and the board/desktop view switch. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-0 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-0 Invalid Date Desktop-level behaviours corrected, and lower idle CPU. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-1 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-1 Invalid Date The Microsoft Store release. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/eight-rounds-of-audits/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/eight-rounds-of-audits/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine of DeskDrawer's releases were stability releases with no new features. This is what eight successive full-codebase reviews actually turned up, including how often a fix caused the next bug. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/designing-for-language-independence/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/designing-for-language-independence/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT DeskDrawer's Store listing is in 16 languages. The application itself is built so that using it depends very little on reading text in any of them. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/no-telemetry-by-default/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/no-telemetry-by-default/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT DeskDrawer makes no network connections at all. That is a stronger promise than 'privacy-friendly', and it has a real price the developer pays. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/reparse-points-and-onedrive/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/reparse-points-and-onedrive/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A one-line safety check took three releases to get right, and two of the attempts caused regressions worse than the problem being fixed. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/offline-network-shares/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/offline-network-shares/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT One bug class caused every freeze DeskDrawer has ever had. It was fixed in five separate releases before the pattern was fully understood. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/hiding-the-desktop-icon-layer/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/hiding-the-desktop-icon-layer/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT DeskDrawer has to hide the icons Windows draws, without changing a setting, without surviving a crash, and without upsetting Explorer. Each of those constraints came from a specific failure. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/why-boards-have-no-title-bar/ https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/notes/why-boards-have-no-title-bar/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most desktop organizers put a title bar on top of each container. Removing it was the first design decision in DeskDrawer, and it drove most of the ones that followed. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-3 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-3 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A hardening pass over everything 1.2.2 touched. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-4 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-4 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fixes from a seventh audit, including the most serious bug in the product's history. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-5 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-5 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fixes from an eighth code audit. Two of the four were regressions caused by the previous round's own fix. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-1 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The full Windows context menu, and Windows' own dialogs stopped being swallowed. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-2 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-2 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A thorough hardening pass over the whole application. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-5 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-5 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eighteen fixes from the first full code audit. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-6 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-6 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Drag onto folder shortcuts, and a broad reliability pass from a second full audit. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-0 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-2-0 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The desktop New menu, fixed for the case where native icons are hidden. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-3 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-3 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Drag files into folders, and standard Windows info tips. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-4 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-4 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Safer drag-into-folder, and the first of five fixes for offline network locations. https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-2 https://deskdrawer.pages.dev/changelog/#v1-1-2 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Show desktop stopped hiding the boards.