Solution to cluttered desktop
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I'm sorry, I might be missing an obvious thing here, but can you tell me how to do that
you have to turn on active desktop with web and "show web content on my desktop" consult windows help or google how to do that.
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Pravarakhya wrote:
Is any one using Fences[^],
Now I do.
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At least in Windows XP... You can actually drag a folder from anywhere on your file system (i.e., not just folders from your desktop) and stick it to the edge of the desktop. You can then grab that little edge-folder thingy and move it over your desktop and it becomes a window that does not show on the taskbar. The original folder location remains intact, but you get the benefit of having a mini window that you can place files in. As far as I can tell, it is pretty much the same thing as that Fences program.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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I don't get this...if you have lots of icons on your desktop for commonly used docs/progs. Then surely you have said docs/progs open, and obscuring all the icons on the desktop???? I'd use taskbar folders instead, that way the icon is accessible what ever I'm running.
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I still prefer RocketDock, that way I don't have to bring the desktop to the front to find my links.
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I have Fences installed on several machines. For me its now a must have (ok a really like). I like the double click and hide all fences feature. I wish they had a hide this fence option, but you can achieve that effect by Excluding other fences from hiding. If you haven't tried it, you should give it a try.
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Thanks - it looked interesting until I got to the bit "This is a beta...and will expire in November 2009". I don't install beta software on my working machine, not since the incident. I don't want to talk about it.
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My god are you right. I did until 2 days ago. I had installed some beta controls from ComponentOne for Iphone dev and it hosed my machine I could not install the new version of the controls we just purchased for 1500. After fighting it for 5 hours I finally formatted and reloaded and have been doing so for 2 days. Normally I would not have formatted but the other dev I worked with had already installed the controls and we cannot work on the same projects with different versions.:confused::confused::confused:
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my solution is pretty simple: turn on auto-arrange / align to grid. then i delete things when i see more than three columns of icons. i put all of my essential apps in the quick-launch bar.
I put all of my essential apps in Slickrun. I dislike the Quick launch bar and keep it turned off.
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
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Meh. I just get a bigger/additional monitor when I can't see my desktop. I have 5 monitors, three of which are 30". :laugh:
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Nope, I just randomly place things on it all over the place, with decent names, then click somewhere on the desktop and start typing the name. Placing them in a specific spot doesn't matter, the company wallpaper...well I would rather them use http://www.boingboing.net/images/snakes-white-big.jpg[^. Can't see anything on the desktop when it's all "pretty". At home, their's nothing on the desktop except for a few shortcuts. I like the start menu and a nice picture of a Battlestar Galactica Base Ship (mostly black). :)
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