Making the Windows desktop more functional?

[Deleted member 68110]

Is there anything that makes the Windows desktop environment more functional without looking 30 years out of date?

I hate having pokey little symbols of my documents, or my drive shortcuts or shortcuts to apps cluttering up my desktop - it looks the same as Windows has looked for 30 years.

Is there an app that means different sections of the screen have different purposes - maybe larger areas representing shortcuts to certain places, or a dock even like in Linux and iOS?

Basically anything to get away from the crappy little icons, and the lumpy start menu?

Thanks a lot for any suggestions.

 

[Deleted member 68110]

You mean something like Fences?
https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

I suppose the alternative would look like a Windows phone

Thanks guys - Fences is the sort of thing - I was just hoping for something a bit bolder - like the ability to have something like a bauhaus desktop...

.. where one section is a functioning clock, another is a link to files, another is the games library - that sort of thing.