Clean up your desktop: free your Mac or PC desktop again
The desktop is the most convenient place to put things, so it fills up fast. Screenshots, downloads, half-finished documents: anyone looking for something searches among a hundred icons. Here is how to get it free again.
Get order quickly
- Create a folder called “Desktop old” and drag everything into it that you don’t need today. The desktop is empty at once.
- Bring back only what you will really open in the next few days.
- Sort out the rest later, file by file, or right away with GetSpace.
Built-in helpers
Mac: Right-click the desktop and choose “Use Stacks” to group files by kind. On a Mac, screenshots go to the desktop by default. Press Shift + Command + 5 and choose “Options” to pick another location.
Windows: Right-click the desktop, then “View” and “Show desktop icons” hides all icons without deleting anything.
Rules to keep it free
The desktop is a temporary place, not an archive. Set a fixed place for finished files (for example “Documents/2026”) and tidy up briefly on Fridays.
How it works with GetSpace
On the start page, pick “Desktop” with one click. GetSpace shows you each file on its own.
- Keep or delete: right or left arrow.
- Press M to move a file to a folder. Recently used folders are ready with a number, one key press is enough.
- Press R to give the file a better name right away. The extension stays and nothing is overwritten.
- Moving and deleting only happen once you confirm in the summary.
GetSpace is a program for Mac and Windows and doesn’t run on phones. Send yourself the link and download it on your computer.
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