If you’re a little bored with your desktop, Shock Desktop 3D might be the change you’re looking for. This fun little program literally turns the icons on your desktop into 3D objects. When you run Shock3D desktop, you’ll no longer have flat icons, but little tokens or 3D lozenges you can move around, stack and turn in different directions.

You can set Shock Desktop 3D to make your icons look like 3D rectangles, or like 3D cubes, which are a lot of fun to play with. You’ll enjoy playing around with your layout and moving cubes all over the place, stacking them and organizing them. You can save each layout you like as a profile in Shock Desktop 3D.

Shock Desktop 3D is great fun. It replaces a wallpaper you may be tired of with 3D blocks or cubes you can play with. It’s a hoot to move everything around, stack it and organize it, when you first get your 3D desktop.

Since Shock Desktop 3D is free, there’s no reason not to get it and try it out. The effects are very well-done and look very realistic, and it’s a fun toy for a while.

Beyond the initial fun of stacking and organizing and creating different layouts for yourself, you’ll probably find Shock Desktop 3D is not very useful. In fact, it’s not actually useful at all. It doesn’t do anything, other than make your icons 3D.

Shock Desktop 3D doesn’t provide additional functionality, like allowing you to do things with your programs by interacting with their 3D icons. It doesn’t add additional wallpapers. In fact, its biggest defect is that it doesn’t allow you to use wallpapers at all. Many people will find this a deal-breaker.

Shock Desktop 3D is a fun toy, but that’s all it is, and most people probably won’t use it long-term.