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Desktop icon organizer Fences arranges your cluttered desktop icons into containers so you can clean up the mess into useful groups of shortcuts-or optionally hides them altogether.

It’s the little things that make a Windows system great-like utilities that use less than 10MB of memory to make your life easier. Here are 10 apps that pack a lot of greatness into very little space.

If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can’t uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so.

Tiny portable utility NiftyWindows adds a ton of features that make working with windows easy-so you can move, resize, and even roll up windows without moving your hand off the mouse.

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.

Tiny utility WinRoll adds window management capabilities to the system context menu-simply right-click on any window’s title bar and it will roll up into just the title.

Windows users that are fans of the OSX dock have plenty of options – RocketDock is usually the one that gets recommended. XWindows Dock is one I hadn’t heard of before, and it offers some features that might give it an edge over the competition.

If you spend your workday at a computer, you probably have a set of apps you run together to get things done. Utility Launcher creates shortcuts to open them all in a single click.

How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo.

WindowsPager is a free and light-weight application for managing virtual desktops. The application is just over 300k and uses around 5MB of system memory.