Windows by default doesn’t allow you to display desktop icons in a list view. There is no right click and display as list option either.

If you are someone (like us) who maintain the desktop as a digital junkyard, it might be quite an eye sore using the default icon view with icons overflowing out of your desktop edges. Today let me introduce you to a tiny application that’ll display your desktop icons as a list instead of large icons thereby reducing the clutter to a great extend.

Head over to the Desktop List View site  and download the  self extracting exe  or the zip file. Run the ‘desktopListView.exe’ to display your desktop icons in list view. If you didn’t like the view you can revert back to the normal desktop view by running the ‘unload.bat’ file.