Desktop Icon Toy Changelog

What's new in Desktop Icon Toy 5.0

Jul 25, 2015
  • Changed - Fully support Windows 8.1
  • Improved - Other minor improvements

New in Desktop Icon Toy 4.7 (Oct 8, 2012)

  • Changed - Doesn't hide icon text at first running
  • Improved - Fully compatible with Win8

New in Desktop Icon Toy 4.6 (Oct 7, 2011)

  • Improved - Significantly improved hover effect performance
  • Improved - By default, 64 bit version will install into "Program Files", instead of "Program Files (x86)"
  • Fixed - Animation layout not work if there are too many icons (more than 100) on desktop
  • Added - More language support
  • Changed - Removed default hotkey

New in Desktop Icon Toy 4.5 (Oct 4, 2010)

  • Added - Support "English" and "German" languages now, anyone help to translate to other language would get a FREE license
  • Added - Align icons to "Left-right" and "Top-bottom"
  • Fixed - Layout and tooltip can't work well when taskbar on left or top
  • Misc - Other minor changes

New in Desktop Icon Toy 4.0 (Oct 9, 2009)

  • Added - Support Mouse Gestures to arrange icons
  • Fixed - Sometiems the "Restore Layout" menu item is in gray
  • Improved - Better to support multiple monitors even primary monitor not in left
  • Improved - Fully support Windows 7

New in Desktop Icon Toy 3.3 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • Added - Option to export configurations
  • Added - New layouts shape4, shape5 and shape6

New in Desktop Icon Toy 3.2 (Apr 29, 2008)

  • Added - Show/hide icon text on demand, the similar to icon hiding
  • Added - Swap secondary monitor icons in primary monitor
  • Added - Option to lock Desktop Icon Toy tray icon
  • Added - Option to disable Windows arrange icon menu items
  • Removed - Blink, shake and show/hide icon text hover effects
  • Fixed - Tooltip will be displayed correctly in multiple monitors
  • Fixed - Background color work well in Vista

New in Desktop Icon Toy 3.1 (Feb 12, 2008)

  • Added - Support 64-bit OS
  • Added - New clock layout, any icons could be arranged to a clock now
  • Added - Options to set hot keys for save/restore layout
  • Added - All menu items assigned a mnemonic key
  • Improved - User Interface improved to use native look and feel
  • Improved - If the option dialog already shown, click the tray icon will bring it to front

New in Desktop Icon Toy 3.0 (Dec 27, 2007)

  • Added - Ability to save multiple layouts by differnt layout names.
  • Changed the program icon.
  • Fixed - Some of time will auto change the icon size on Vista.

New in Desktop Icon Toy 2.9 (Oct 14, 2007)

  • Added - Ability to customize Icon tooltip. With this cool built-in feature, you can now embed an HTML tag into the tooltip.
  • Eg: Desktop Icon Toy is my favorite tool!
  • Added - Feature to show/hide windows default icon tooltip.
  • Added - Feature to activate desktop icons using single mouse click.
  • Added - Feature to auto select icon when mouse hovers over an icon.
  • Added - Option to show/hide confirm dialog when doing a save/restore layout.
  • Added - Option to display Options dialog when left clicking the tray icon.
  • Improved - Now removing "icon shortcut overlay" will not remove all windows Vista favorite links in the folder view.
  • Improved - All layouts will now arrange icons in primary monitor if there are multiple monitors

New in Desktop Icon Toy 2.7 (Jul 23, 2007)

  • Added - Added a Color panel to easily change color
  • Added - Now you can hold down "Space" key to move select icons even "Lock icon" feature enabled
  • Added - Added "Align to Grid" option
  • Added - Added more hot keys, please see Hot Key panel for more details
  • Added - Use "ALT" "Arrow Key" to move icons by ten pixels
  • Changed - Split automatically restore layout option into two separated options
  • Improved - Save/restore layout will prompt a confirm dialog
  • Fixed - Automatically restore layout when icons have been added or deleted could work well on Vista
  • Fixed - Other minor bug fixed
  • Improved - Other changes to make more user friendly

New in Desktop Icon Toy 2.5 (May 19, 2007)

  • Added - Add more Hearts layout.
  • Added - Now can define a hot key to change the layout.
  • Improved - Now Clock layout can arrange icons by 20, 34, 48, 62...

New in Desktop Icon Toy 1.8 (Nov 27, 2006)

  • Added an option to customize the layout order.
  • Other minor improved.

New in Desktop Icon Toy 1.7.1 (Oct 27, 2006)

  • Fixed save/restore layout bug, now it can work well when add/delete icon.

New in Desktop Icon Toy 1.6 (Aug 6, 2006)

  • Added - Add an option to stick the icon start position to original when automatically re-layout.
  • Added - Add a "Tray menu" option panel to customize the tray menu.
  • Improved - Improve the show icon text feature, no flicker now.
  • Improved - The layout is more better.
  • Fixed - Minor bug fixed.

New in Desktop Icon Toy 1.4 (Jul 4, 2006)

  • The desktop icons can automatically hide when mouse off desktop or desktop icon, other bug fixed.

New in Desktop Icon Toy 1.3 (Jul 1, 2006)

  • Bug fixed and minor improvement