I use Windows at work, and use my Desktop as a workspace. However, I often am too lazy to clean my desktop off (which really just involves moving documents into a directory, archives into an 'Apps' directory {they are usually downloads}, and shortcuts off to a 'Shortcuts' directory). So, I let Perl do the heavy lifting for me:

package main;
use strict; use warnings;
our $VERSION = '0.01';
our $BUILD   = 'Oct 24, 2005';

#__modules__
use POSIX qw[_exit];
use Win32::TieRegistry;
use File::Spec::Functions ('catdir','catfile');
use File::Copy;

main( \@ARGV );

#_____________________________________________________________________
+__ main()_
sub main {
    # main ( \@argv )
    my $argv = shift;
    $Registry->Delimiter('/');
    
    my $sh_fold = $Registry->{'HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Wi
+ndows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders'};
    my $desk = $sh_fold->{'Desktop'};
    my $docs = $sh_fold->{'Personal'};
    
    chdir $desk;
    opendir my $DESK, $desk or die ('Opening Desktop: '.$!);
    my (@doc, @dir, @exe, @lnk);
    for (readdir $DESK) {
        next if /^\.{1,2}$/; # skip . and ..
        
        if ( -d $_ ) { push @dir, $_ and next }
        next unless -f $_;
        
        # executable and other "non-document" types
        if ( /\.(?:exe|zip|tgz|tar|gz|com|msi|ini)$/i ) {
            push @exe, $_;
        }
        elsif (/\.lnk$/i) {
            next if /^CleanDesk/i;
            push @lnk, $_;    
        }
        else {
            push @doc, $_;
        }
    }
    
    my $newdir = catdir($docs, 'Cleaned');
    
    mkdir $newdir; 
    $|=1;
    
    for (@doc) {
        print $_,' => ';
        my $new = catfile($newdir,$_);
        copy($_, $new) or do {
            warn "Skipping $_: $!";
            next;
        };
        print $new,"\n";
        unlink($_);    
    }
    
    mkdir catdir($newdir,'Apps');
    for (@exe) {
        print $_,' => ';
        my $new = catfile($newdir,'Apps',$_);

        copy($_, $new) or do {
            warn "Skipping $_: $!";
            next;
        };
        print $new,"\n";
        unlink($_);
    }
    
    for (@dir) {
        print $_,' => ';
        system('move',$_,$newdir);
        print catdir($newdir,$_),"\n";
    }
    
    mkdir catdir($newdir,'Shortcuts');
    for (@lnk) {
        print $_,' => ';
        my $new = catfile($newdir,'Shortcuts',$_);

        copy($_, $new) or do {
            warn "Skipping $_: $!";
            next;
        };
        
        print $new,"\n";
        unlink($_);
    }
    
    _exit(0);
}

#_____________________________________________________________________
+_____ END_
_exit(250); ## unknown exit code.  Should *never* happen;


__END__
=head1 cleandesk.pl

Cleans Desktop items into the My Documents folder

=cut
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