h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't think it can ever* have been the fashion to have green brick effect cushioned wallpeper in one's kitchen. I think the people who had the house before me were off their trolley
I'm now down* to only 40 items on the desktop

Now down to 27 items and some of those left are proving awkward to deal with; Must remember not to Install* programs directly to folders on the desktop

I think an overly cluttered desktop only becomes a problem when the icons stop being the 'easy access' thing they are meant to be.

I don't have that problem with my desktop with 35 icons - they are all set up clearly and easy to use.


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Yeh... Problem was I had too many individual documents, soudn files and such like that just hadn't found a home; Though I do like keeping a couple of audio files on the desktop as its handy to quickly hit enter and play soemthing to check out audio related things I realised in organising it more that there were tons of shortcuts to applications that I ahrdly ever use, or if I do use I get to from a differnt route Another consideration is that when I download something, e.G., a new bit of software or audio plugin it useually gets straight to the desktop from wehre I run it/install it/move it to where its ment to be, and then frequently forget to delete the origonal zip file or whatever it is, so having less on the desktop to start with makes it easier to sort out and find these and delete em once they've been installed properly

I have 3 icons on my desktop: Recycle Bin, Windows Explorer (prefer it to My Computer, but then my Windoze experience goes back to 3.1.1), and a game that won't install properly, so it's not in the menus but I can still play it . Anything else is accessed through the Start menus.

I had windows explorer as a short cut on the pc. Now I've just got a link to the folder I use most, but it opens the same. I think the first pc I had had windows 3 something on it. I didn't like the menu system, and I've disliked it more each time I upgrade to a new windows, which is why I put everything on the desktop as if I still have that original icons based system thingy.

I don't like the look of the launchy, cos that looks even more annoying!

Traveller in Time at w**k
"Here I have two icons, Recycle bin and one folder.

At home I have five on the XP, just three other folders more.
On the Linux box several dozen, I hardly ever use the desktop as it requires using windows and the machine is still fast used from command line. "

I keep my games shortcuts on the desktop, along with my computer, recycling bin, and folders to catch downloads (such as the odd file checked my way, not torrent files or anything huge)... I tend to have a folder called, say 'music' on the desktop which will lead to all the music-containing folders, same for pictures. Oh, and uTorrent.

I think I have about ten on my desktop but it's a new laptop and I'm still not sure what I'm doing with it cos it was my brother's and half the stuff I've no idea what it does!

I tend to use my PC desktop in much the same way as I use my real desk...

Start with it all neat and tidy and wait for it to become completely overrun by junk - then dump the whole lot in the waste bin or an archive and start again...

Must admit, the system works far better with the PC desktop than it does with my 'real life' desk... I've yet to figure out how to get Google Desktop Search to tell me where a certain piece of paper is in one of the dozen filing boxes stacked in a corner of my office.

Well I've managed to reduce the desktop to the essentials which is 17 items Took ages to move the bit of software I'd installed on the desktop to the drive route, until I figured out I needed to alter the line in the .ini file that was pointing to the .exe file in the folder on the desktop location
Now I have:
My documents.
My computer.
Recycle bin.
Internet explorer.
My music (shortcut to the folder).
H2G2 (folder with stuff in).
Security (folder with shorrtcuts to all the security software)
Razorlame (shortcut)
Drumsynth (shortcut)
Sonarle
Sonar home studeo.
Three work folders
Guitar tuning fork.
Firefox
My network connections.
err not sure whatelse

I keep things like firefox on my startbar, but that's just me

I haven't clicked an icon since installing Launchy!

But I do like the desktop as its quick to launch things.....
windwos key plus M (takes one to the desktop)
PG down or end (takes me to the last item), hit enter, and I've got sonar running.
Hit M a few thimes and I cycle through mydocuments, music etc or the letter 'G' enter and its the guitar tuning fork I for IE, F for Firefox etc Mind I still think I much prefered it when I'd just type 'WP@ or 'lotus' etc., from the C prompt (I used to like writing those little batch files foo for launching things) I probably ought stop using the old PC as a coffee table and set it up and try linux out seeing as how I went to the effort of installing it on to the thing

None. No taskbar or start button either. Only a system tray. Litestep as a shell with a custom minimal setup - ideal for a dual screen multi-desktop environment. Right click anywhere on the desktop to bring up a customizable, floating start menu. Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Rumour has it you shouldn't have any files on the desktop, because in the event of a crash they are much harder to recover. I have a lot of shortcuts to folders, although for some reason the contents look different whether I look at them through the shortcut or through the file manager system. Very peculiar. They didn't do that on my last pc.

hm... I suppose I could move the folders and just put shortcuts on the desktop...

6

normally its 3 6's that scare people...

I use this to get Vista to keep its folder settings and otherwise behave properly. http://xenomorph.net/?page_id=336

Just thought I'd update you all - I've got 25 on there now, so it's starting to look more like home! Two are actual files, rather than shortcuts because they are only temporary.