Windows has always stuck to a flat, two-dimensional desktop throughout its history. However, you can add a much more visually appealing 3D desktop to Windows with BumpTop. BumpTop is open source software (acquired by Google) that turns the desktop into a 3D room with a top-down perspective.

Want to know more? Here’s how you can transform Windows 11 and 10 with BumpTop.

How to add a 3D desktop with BumpTop

Installing and launching BumpTop will add its 3D desktop to Windows. BumpTop’s installation process is quick and easy. Additionally, the software weighs in at a relatively light 57.3 megabytes. So you probably won’t need to free up hard drive space before installing BumpTop. You can download and install BumpTop as follows.

1. Open the BumpTop website.
2. Click it Download link there to download BumpTop installation wizard.
3. Bring up File Explorer (tap its To earn + E keyboard shortcut) and open the folder containing the BumpTopWindows-v2.5.exe file.
4. Double-click BumpTopWindows-v2.5.exe to open this setup wizard.
5. Click on following to select I accept the agreement.

6. press the following again to install the software.
7. Then double-click the BumpTop desktop shortcut to launch the software.

You will now see the new 3D desktop in Windows 11, like the one in the snapshot below. This office is a 3D room with three walls and a floor. The floor of the room includes your desktop shortcut icons, but you can drag and drop them onto the surrounding walls with the mouse.

You can double-click on these icons to open their software packages as you usually would on the normal 2D desktop.

You can return to the normal desktop by right-clicking the BumpTop system tray icon and selecting Exit BumpTop. Alternatively, press the Other + F4 keyboard shortcut for this option.

Besides icons, BumpTop 3D desktop can also include sticky notes and other widgets. To add handy note reminders, right-click anywhere on the desktop and select sticky note in the circular menu. Then type some text in the yellow note that appears and click outside the notifier to save the changes.

BumpTop has six other widget options. Right-click somewhere on the 3D desktop and select the Widgets option shown directly below. Then you can choose to add Photo Frame, Send to Printer, New Email, Facebook, File Sharing and Twitter widgets on your desktop.

If you select the Add a picture frame There, a Select Photo Frame Source window will open. To add a photo to the desktop, select the Local directory or image file radio button on this window. Then click on the ellipse to choose an image to add, then press the button Okay button.

How to set up icon stacks and grids

BumpTool offers convenient desktop organization options. It allows you to configure icon stacks and grids. Stacking icons allow you to stack them according to type or time. the Gate neatly organizes a selection of icons in a grid.

To stack icons, select an icon to include. Then hold the CTRL button to select multiple icons. When you have them selected, right-click one of the icons and select Stack By. Choose either the Battery by type Where stack per time options.

Then the selected icons will be stacked like in the snapshot directly below. You can delete a stack by right-clicking on it and selecting Break the stack. Or you can select a stack and press the key CTRL+B shortcut instead.

You can configure a grid in the same way. Select multiple icons on the desktop with the CTRL key. Then right-click on a selected icon to choose the Gate option.

How to customize desktop theme

BumpTop has a few different room theme settings you can choose from. To change the theme, press the CTRL + Comma hotkey to display the BumpTop settings window. Click it Themes tab in this window. Select an alternative theme on the Theme Pack scrolling menu.

There you can also change the floor and wall images of a selected theme. To change wallpaper, click on the Browse buttons for the Ground, front wall, rear wall, left walland straight wall options. Choose another image and press the Open button. If you want the floor to include your regular desktop wallpaper, select the option Use My Windows Background as a checkbox for soil. Click on To apply to save all your theme changes.

How to Customize Icons in BumpTop

You can customize desktop shortcuts in BumpTops by resizing them, changing their icons, and adjusting alignment. To resize an icon, right-click it to select either the Grow Where Shrink options for this. You can also select a desktop shortcut and press the key. CTRL + g Where CTRL + S keyboard shortcuts to enlarge or reduce it. You can restore the default size of a selected icon by pressing CTRL + R keys simultaneously.

To change an icon, right-click a desktop item and select Continued. Select the Change icon option. Choose another icon in the file browsing window and press the key Open button.

You can further customize the icons from the BumpTop settings window. Open this window by pressing the CTRL + Comma hotkey for it. Select the Icons and Physics tab in the snapshot just below.

the Icon alignment bar it allows you to enable rotation of freeform icons. Drag the slider of this bar to the far right to select free form rotation. With this option applied, you can fully rotate the icons with the mouse. Left click on an icon and hold down the left mouse button to rotate it.

You can also select a Enable Throw to Widget and Stacks checkbox here. Selecting this option allows you to launch shortcut icons in the 3D desktop room by clicking on them with the left mouse button and quickly releasing the mouse button. If you throw them with another force, they will bounce off the walls. Click on To apply after changing the icon options and Physics tongue.

Add another dimension to your desktop with BumpTop

BumpTop adds an exciting new dimension to the Windows desktop, along with icon functionality and handy widgets. Who knows, maybe one day it might inspire Microsoft to launch a Windows 3D platform with a similar three-dimensional desktop experience.

Google has already shown a lot of interest in the BumpTop project as a potential model for a 3D Android operating system. For now, though, you can see what Windows 3D might look like with BumpTop.

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