Iconoid

If you have many desktop short cuts that sometimes hide the entire background screen or they may just seem a bit to overwhelming for you, now you can hide them thanks to Iconoid. It's a simple utility application that allows you to hide your desktop icons every time the mouse cursor is not showing on your desktop. Furthermore, if you don't want to hide your icons entirely, the program allows you to configure them so that they become transparent. You can also change any of element of their aspect, like the text or background color. At any given time you can restore your desktop's original appearance and even have the program running on the background in the system tray.