For most of my MS Windows life I used Litestep as my shell...so almost NEVER had an icon on my desktop.
None.
Windows 7 is [likely] too far advanced from Litestep shell viability so, with 16 installed games, several Graphics proggies...and audio-editing ones, office proggies, etc....there are a 'lot' of icons....Fences is the perfect cure/solution....at the perfect time...