It's a simple process that anyone can try, with or without admin privileges. To switch between light and dark themes depending on the time, Addictive Tips has put together a neat guide that uses Windows' Task Scheduler to toggle between the two. If you only want to use the iOS dark and light wallpapers, make two copies of each and set them to display in succession, so the background looks like it only changes every 12 hours. With Windows, one simple option is to create a slideshow with pictures showing different times of day, deactivate shuffle, and set it to change every six hours.

Apple also showed a feature called Dynamic Desktop, which changes your wallpaper automatically to suit the time of day. You can use the Task Scheduler to change to Windows' dark mode automatically at night Dynamic Desktop It's not as user-friendly as Fences and doesn't offer the same breadth of features, but has the benefit of looking like Stacks when you group documents together.

You can even create multiple pages on your desktop – much like the home screen on a mobile device – and pull them right and left to switch between them.įor a free alternative, check out Nimi Places. Holding 'Alt' and dragging a folder onto your desktop will create a Folder Portal, which lets you see and access all that folder's contents from your desktop without actually moving the files themselves. Fences are fully customizable you can create, delete, rename and re-style them to your heart's content. Install it, and it will automatically group all the icons on your desktop into boxes (Fences), which can be 'rolled up' with a simple double-click, leaving your desktop neat and clean.

Unfortunately it's not free, costing US$9.99 (about £7, AU$13) but it's extremely useful, and if you're the kind of person whose desktop is a cluttered mess of icons then it's worth every penny.įences isn't identical to Stacks, but it serves much the same purpose. The best option for keeping your Windows desktop tidy is Fences by Stardock Software. It's not identical to Mojave's Stacks, but Fences is a great tool for keeping your desktop tidy StacksĪnother feature introduced with Mojave is Stacks, which keeps your Mac desktop tidy by arranging icons into neat groups.

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