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Arrange your desktop, and windows objects, items, files, or icons

To organize objects, or icons on the desktop of your computer using the windows; You will need to use the mouse. To move the desktop objects manually:
Click the object or icon eg my computer object with the left mouse button and drag it to another part of the desktop. You will see the shadow of the object appear while you drag the object. Release the mouse button to move the object.

To move objects on the desktop automatically:

Right-click an empty part of the desktop to display the menu of the desktop. Select line up icons to arrange the objects horizontally on an invisible grid.

Right-click a blank desktop again and, but this time click Arrange icons. Select the "by name" from the cascading menu. Now objects are arranged in alphabetical order, starting from the upper-left corner.

You can make so that your desktop objects are stored in sorted order by choosing Auto arrange. Right-click the desktop, and then click Arrange icons, and then click Auto arrange cascading menu. Now whenever you move the object, it will automatically be changed.

To organize the appearance of the windows desktop

Each open window on the desktop has similar options for the organisation of the site in it and the outside appearance. You can access these options, open the view menu or by clicking the buttons in the toolbar or titlebar. These buttons and menus include move, resize, minimize, maximize, and close. Also you can arrange the windows on your desktop in a variety of models with the right click the empty bar and select the option to view your windows. They include small, tiled horizontally, vertically tiled, or close the windows.

To organize objects in a window
To organize objects or items in a window, click the view option, and choose how you want to see them as a list, the name of the icon size, etc., choose Auto arrange if you want the window elements are processed automatically and windows to remember the settings the next time you open the window.