Trash?Desktop is a freeware drag and drop utility for rebuilding the
Desktop. Just drag and drop any unprotected local disk and then
restart the Mac for rebuilding fresh new Desktop files.

Why do this? With a classic Mac OS, [rebuilding the desktop is good housekeeping][1] (Web Archive) and should be done on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes you need to rebuild the desktop just so the Finder can add the correct icons to its desktop database. If you don't rebuild the desktop, after a while you may notice things like broken or "plain vanilla" generic icons. This is usually the first visible sign that the Desktop Data files have become corrupted and need refreshing.

You can manually Restart while holding down the OPTION + COMMAND keys
and wait until the Finder asks if you wish to rebuild the desktop. So
why use "Trash?Desktop"? Because the Finder when it rebuilds the
desktop, it doesn't do a thorough clean. "Trash?Desktop" does, it sets
the invisible data files "Desktop DB", "Desktop DF" and "Desktop" to
visible and then moves them to the Trash. When your Mac starts again
it forces a complete rebuild of those files.

 * DL #1: Trash?Desktop 1.3.1 (FAT) English version
 * DL #2: Trash?Desktop F-1.3.1 (Fat) French version
 * DL #3: Trash?Desktop 1.2.1 (FAT) English version

This software (plus release notes and full information) is also
available for downloading from the cache of the Author's site (Web
Archive):
[https://xnop.ch/freeware/td/][2]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Native 68k & PPC (FAT) encoded. Compatible with all Macintosh models
except those with 68000 CPU's i.e: the Mac Plus, SE, Mini vMac, etc.
It's compatible with all PPC Macintosh capable of booting native into
Mac OS 9.2.2 or earlier.

[Note]: The Desktop files are still in use when you move them to the Trash until you restart or unmount the disk. After running Trash?Desktop, restart your Mac and empty the Trash once the Mac reboots.

Requires Macintosh System Software 7.0 and greater.

  [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190615053916/http://essentialmac.com/fix/rebuild.html
  [2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20051222025243/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/opus/freeware/td/

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