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By Abhishek Ghosh May 10, 2011 9:22 pm Updated on May 10, 2011

How you use bookshelf like iPad to place icons in Windows 7 desktop

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The book shelf in Apple iPad looks great. You can use a rack like Apple iPad’s bookshelf to organize the shortcut icons, files and folders on your Windows 7 desktop too. Here is one we are using:

 

bookshelf like iPad to place icons in Windows 7 desktop

 

We will not use any program, so no sucking of system resources. We need a bit of Photoshop works and Windows 7 tweaking.

 

Actually it is a kind of cheat. The whole thing (except the icons) is a wallpaper :

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Preparing the Wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop

 

First we need a wallpaper. You can use any wallpaper that is perfectly of your screen resolution. Open it in Photoshop. Click Image and Duplicate it. Close the original wallpaper. In our download section, you will get the Book Shelf’s PSD file. Delete the unnecessary layers and merge the group to make the bookshelf a single layer. Copy this layer to your wallpaper’s layer and resize it.

Now, you need the the custom name as we have used. You can read the article on how to create pressed text effect. Merge all the layers and save it as png file. Set it as desktop background.

 

Arranging icons in the bookshelf on Windows 7 desktop

 

Right click on any empty part on Windows 7 desktop area and use the exact settings we have used:

 

How you use bookshelf like iPad to place icons in Windows 7 desktop

Now, you can move the desktop icons freely. Follow this tutorial to get custom size of desktop icons instead of fixed sized desktop icon.

Everything is done; two things remains:

 

Removing the texts of the Windows 7 Desktop shortcut icons

 

Click the start menu and type “charmap” without the quotation marks and hit Enter from the keyboard. Character map will open :

 

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Select a blank character and copy it. Then right click on the desktop icon you want and click Rename. Press CTRL + V to paste this character; you will get the text free desktop icon.

 

Removing the shortcut arrow icons

 

There are several ways to remove the shortcut arrow icons. We used Windows 7 Manager which works fine for 64 bit of Windows 7.

 

If you can not create the base wallpaper using Adobe Photoshop or want a custom wallpaper, please Contact Us; our graphics team will create one for you.

 

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Comments

  1. AvatarSwapnil says

    May 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Hey Abhishek. I recently found a problem in removing these shortcut that it disables the Jump Lists in Win7 which is unique in it. Any patch for this problem???

  2. AbhishekAbhishek says

    May 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Swapnil, there are three ways to get back; first is:

    Right-click on the taskbar and select Properties. In the Taskbar and Start Menu properties” dialog box, click Start Menu tab. Uncheck the option named Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar to disable Jump Lists feature. Click on the Apply button to save the changes. Restart.
    Recheck that box to get back the feature. (Restart / log-off & log-on works almost the same in this case).

    Second is to restore the registry from a previous registry backup and third (I must say it is not 100% successful) is to restore Windows to 2 or 3 steps back date.

    Let me know what happened.

  3. AvatarJaninaalba says

    April 9, 2013 at 7:54 am

    Undeniably believe that which you stated. Your favorite
    justification seemed to be on the web the easiest thing
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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "How you use bookshelf like iPad to place icons in Windows 7 desktop," in The Customize Windows, May 10, 2011, February 6, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/05/how-you-use-bookshelf-like-ipad-to-place-icons-in-windows-7-desktop/.

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