Windows XP offers some very flexible methods of building custom desktops that are very orderly and functional for a particular user.   The problem with these methods is that they are not very well known and seldom see any use.  Which is why as a tech, I am constantly dealing with computers the desktops of which are so cluttered with icons of every variety that it physically pains the eyes.
So when I will ask a typical customer, "Do you use all these icons?"  What do you suppose their answer is?  "No, most of that stuff my kids put on there."  And then I’ll ask, "Well… of these 80 or so icons, how many of them do you use?"  Usually the answer will be: "Oh… I don’t know.... 5 or 6 maybe.  I wish I could find my Icons easier."  That is when I say, "How about we put the icons you use into a special tool bar?"  Looking stunned and bewildered they ask, "You can do that?"

Well… absolutely! And hear is how:
Right Click anywhere on the desktop.
On the Menu click on New.
Now click on Folder.
While the name "New Folder" is still active, (highlighted in blue) don’t click on anything else, and you can change the name to something catchy like "My Game Icons."  If you do inadvertently click something else before you have the opportunity to change the name just right click on the new folder and select "Rename."  Now that you have your "Newly Named Folder" created, drag from your desktop all of the icons you want it to contain and drop them into it.  In this particular case, that would be all of your Game icons.
For those that don’t know what I just said to do, left click on an icon that you want to move to this folder, keep the mouse button depressed (How do you keep a mouse button depressed?  Tell it she’s fat.),  and move or "drag" the icon directly on top of the folder and release the mouse button.   Viola, the icon is now inside the folder.

You now have a folder full of icons.  Now you need to decide where you want to make a tool bar.  The choices are to either side or the top of the desktop.  Simply drag the folder to the edge you want and drop it there.  Magically there will be created before your eyes a tool bar containing all of the icons you placed in the folder and that is where they will live until you decide otherwise.  Note that the folder you created is still on the desktop.  If you wish to ad additional icons to your toolbar just drag them to the folder and they will pop right up.

Now it won’t matter if the kids choke up the desktop with another 100 icons, your 5 or 6 will be located in your tool bar where you can easily find them.  One word of warning however, should the folder be deleted from the desktop, so will be the tool bar and all of its icons.
Neat, huh?