There is no build in way for Windows users to expand the desktop. The only option is to install third party software programs to expand the desktop virtually. One of those solutions is a virtual desktop manager called 360 Desktop which was previously mentioned by Joshua. The 360 desktop manager uses a different concept than [...]
Manage your Desktop Icons
Shock Desktop is a Windows application to manage the desktop icons. Users can create profiles which save the current icon layout of the desktop. Loading that profile again resets the desktop to that icon layout. It happens for instance that icons get moved if the user changes the screen resolution. This can be undone with the application.
Use Winroll for more space on your desktop
I love tiny free softwares that have been developed by passionate authors. Winroll is one of those applications that is useful and so small in size that it is astonishing how the functionality has been squeezed into the software. The binary has a size of 9 kilobytes. and does the following. Whenever you right-click a title bar of any window it “rolls up” so to speak and only the title bar is visible. Take a look at the screenshots below to get a better impression of how it looks like.

