s aDesktop Icons.... Grrrr..

PIEBALDconsult

Ew, your system must look like a Mac. I have no pity for anyone who puts icons on his desktop. My desktop is completely free of icons. No wallpaper either. I have the important stuff (five items) on my Quick Launch bar, for anything else I go to the (classic) Start menu. One of the Quick Launch items is "My Computer" and when I open it and go up one level I see "Desktop", which is what would be on the desktop if I let them. What I don't like is that I can't seem to remove what's there (My Computer, My Documents, etc.). I can right-click-delete, but they keep coming back! Not even TweakUI removes them.

Red Stateler

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

My desktop is completely free of icons. No wallpaper either.

Sounds like a waste of space.

Mark Salsbery

Red Stateler wrote:

Sounds like a waste of space.

Yeah but the weight of all those extra pixels shortens a monitor's life!

amclint

Shouldn't matter unless you keep a monitor for more than 10yrs and it's on all day every day....

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Dan Neely

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

What I don't like is that I can't seem to remove what's there (My Computer, My Documents, etc.). I can right-click-delete, but they keep coming back! Not even TweakUI removes them.

Right click on desktop. Desktop tab. Customize desktop. General tab. Uncheck the checkboxes. Ok/apply your way back out.

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Mark Salsbery

True. But if my GF adds one more art-project icon to my desktop I'm going to need counterweights on the back of my monitors to keep them from falling on their face. (I'm still using a big pair of CRTs by the way...."'til they die!' I say!) :laugh:

PIEBALDconsult

Yeah, but they still show in "My Computer".

PIEBALDconsult

Does your GF have a big pair of CRTs? Oh, wait, this is the lounge, sorry.

Mark Salsbery

My kid sister would approve.

Rocky Moore

But you loose a lot of functionality. The desktop is a great place to drop things temporarily such as just dragging the url icon form explorer down to the desktop. Looks are not that important to me as I look at it as a scratch pad, not a piece of art.

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Rocky Moore

I can rearrange the icons for the $40 fee ;)

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Rocky Moore

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

have the important stuff (five items) on my Quick Launch bar, for anything else I go to the (classic) Start menu.

Poor guy ;)

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Rocky Moore

Didn't find them there.

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Rocky Moore wrote:

But you loose a lot of functionality

I'd lose a lot of rationality if I tried to do that. Nothing bugs me more on a computer than lack of organization. Everything in it's place is easy to find. Whatever works though I guess.