As you quickly work on tasks and assignments on your computer, it is easy for your desktop to become cluttered with random icons. Visually, it is difficult to find items when there is no order to the icon placement. Windows has long had a function that aligns desktop icons and helps clean the desktop. Windows 7 has extended this clean desktop icons function by assigning quick key functionality to the routine. This Windows 7 tutorial provides an overview of a quick method of arranging icons in Windows 7.

Minimize any active programs and window so that you can see all of the icons residing on your desktop. You can quickly minimize all active folders by using the "show desktop" function. Click the rectangular box to the right of the time and date on your task bar to minimize all windows quickly.

Once you can see your desktop, press the F5 button located at the top of your keyboard. All your icons on your desktop will move into a row and column format. If the icons are not arranged to your preferences, manually arrange the icons and then press F5 again to snap the icons into a grid pattern.

Repeat steps 1 and 2 any time your desktop is messy or disorderly for a quick method of arranging your icons in Windows 7. Prior versions of Windows does not have the F5 ease of rearranging the desktop, as this is a new feature for Windows 7.

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