About
A Windows desktop organizer started by a product manager and built with AI
After all these years, the Windows desktop is still one of the most frequently used surfaces. Once files pile up, it quickly turns into a mess that almost every Windows user knows.
Microsoft has never really solved this exact problem. Many organizer tools are either too heavy or force you to change familiar habits.
So I built one myself. DeskBox does not replace your desktop; it adds a more useful organization layer above it.
DeskBox uses WinUI 3 + .NET 10 because a desktop utility should feel like part of the system, not a foreign shell.
Modern rounded corners, transparency and animations can coexist with controlled resource usage. That is much harder to achieve with heavier cross-platform stacks.
DeskBox currently supports only basic behavior on Windows 10, and appearance customization may be unavailable.
Some WinUI 3 APIs are not supported on Windows 10. Forcing compatibility would hurt stability and performance.
Compatibility will be explored, but not at the cost of the overall experience.
My name is Tianyu Zhu, and I work as a product manager. DeskBox started from a simple need: my desktop was getting messy, and I could not find a lightweight organizer that felt native to Windows.
I am not a traditional programmer. Most of this project was built with Xiaomi MiMo 2.5 Pro, with parts assisted by Codex GPT-5.5. AI made it possible for a non-programmer to build something useful, which is pretty exciting.
DeskBox began as a personal GitHub project and unexpectedly found real users. I opened the WeChat account Dayu Lab for Chinese users who cannot access GitHub easily. There will be bugs, but I keep improving it after work when I can.