Alcove Cromis

Alcove replaces Explorer's grid of desktop icons with named drawers. They open one at a time, spread into a full canvas once they hold more than a dozen things, and keep their own arrangement on every monitor. A frequent strip along the screen edge fills itself with whatever you actually open, and Ctrl+Space opens a search window from anywhere in Windows. Surfaces take their tint from the wallpaper behind them. Alcove reads the real files on your Desktop and opens them with the real Windows shell, so nothing is copied or moved unless you move it. Ctrl+Shift+F12 hands the desktop back to Explorer at any time. No account, no telemetry; it works with the network unplugged.