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  • D David Wulff

    Oh go on, where's your Irish sprirt of adventure? Hmm, actually, it's probably down the pub... :rolleyes: ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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    Ray Kinsella
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    I'll wait until everyones left the office and will then give it a go. Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire"

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    • D David Wulff

      Jeremy Davis wrote: As you can see I like to keep things tidy Wuss - your computer desktop should be just like your real desktop - cluttered up with all kinds of useless crap. Actually, I keep my desktop very tidy, I organise all of the icons into strict categories according to what they do or are. You will also notice if you look closely next to the start button that I like to add a "My Computer" toolbar to the taskbar - I can't use a machine without that set now. I probably use my desktop more than I use the startmenu and explorer put together! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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      jerry0davis
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      David Wulff wrote: Wuss - your computer desktop should be just like your real desktop I know, I know!!! :laugh: Before I moved office recently, the cleaner had refused to clean my office, as it had loads long forgotten resistors and capacitors tangled in with the carpet. And as for my desk? Sometimes I spent the whole morning looking for my waterproof keyboard with four years worth of coffee spills. Now I've moved office, I've got a new PC, desk, the lot. I haven't had time to untidy it yet. The new cleaner is already threatening to tip the entire contents of my desk out the window!! Should that be :omg: or :cool: ? Jeremy Davis http://www.astad.org

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      • D David Wulff

        Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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        Stefan Spenz
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        By now, my desktop is blank, as it is my screen, 'cause I spoiled by hard disk :~

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        • D David Wulff

          Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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          Max Santos
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          Delta Force the best icon on your desktop :)

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          • D David Wulff

            Shame on you. ;P ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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            Chris Losinger
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            last week it was this i never see it anyway, so it doesn't really matter what it is. in reality, my desktop is Visual Studio, and IE. -c


            Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.    Mark Twain

            Smaller Animals Software

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            • D David Wulff

              Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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              Luis Alonso Ramos
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              Here is my desktop. The only awesome thing about it is the IE button in the taskbar labeled "The Code Project" :) ... and of course, the 2003 Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG from SuperCars.net. -- LuisR ──────────────   Luis Alonso Ramos   Chihuahua, Mexico   www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein

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                Delta Force the best icon on your desktop :)

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                David Wulff
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                You are the first CPian I've met who likes that game! I don't suppose you want to hook up and thrash my butt online do you? ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                • L Luis Alonso Ramos

                  Here is my desktop. The only awesome thing about it is the IE button in the taskbar labeled "The Code Project" :) ... and of course, the 2003 Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG from SuperCars.net. -- LuisR ──────────────   Luis Alonso Ramos   Chihuahua, Mexico   www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein

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                  David Wulff
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                  Nice! Until I went back and read your message, I thought that was you in the car! :eek: ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                  • D David Wulff

                    Nice! Until I went back and read your message, I thought that was you in the car! :eek: ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                    Luis Alonso Ramos
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                    David Wulff wrote: I thought that was you in the car! I'm in a point where I can almost afford it... maybe one or two more decades writing code without stopping to eat or sleep (just like Nish does with CP) would be enough for me to get the money to buy that 476-bhp beauty!! -- LuisR ──────────────   Luis Alonso Ramos   Chihuahua, Mexico   www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein

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                    • D David Wulff

                      Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                      Jon Sagara
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                      "Porn Movies" :laugh: Jon Sagara "... where the beer flows like wine, and the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano ..."

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                      • D David Wulff

                        Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                        wParam
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                        This. I bet I've got the most unique desktop of anyone =). I don't run explorer as the shell, I find it crashes far too much when I do. I run a shell of my own design, it is what gets me the runbox, the AIM window in windowshade mode in the upper right, and the A, O, and W buttons on title bars. Winamp gets a permanant place on the screen, outside of the work area. Screen resolution is 1400x1050, strange, I know, but it's the native res of the laptop panel, so I don't have much choice ;). When was the last time anyone saw windows minimized like that? Sorry, I couldn't resist. :laugh:

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                          This. I bet I've got the most unique desktop of anyone =). I don't run explorer as the shell, I find it crashes far too much when I do. I run a shell of my own design, it is what gets me the runbox, the AIM window in windowshade mode in the upper right, and the A, O, and W buttons on title bars. Winamp gets a permanant place on the screen, outside of the work area. Screen resolution is 1400x1050, strange, I know, but it's the native res of the laptop panel, so I don't have much choice ;). When was the last time anyone saw windows minimized like that? Sorry, I couldn't resist. :laugh:

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                          Alvaro Mendez
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                          That's definetely unique wParam. :-) When you boot, how do you get your shell to run instead of Explorer's? What are the A O W buttons for? Regards, Alvaro Kinda hard to sign my name without anything to write with. Anyone got a pen?

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                            This. I bet I've got the most unique desktop of anyone =). I don't run explorer as the shell, I find it crashes far too much when I do. I run a shell of my own design, it is what gets me the runbox, the AIM window in windowshade mode in the upper right, and the A, O, and W buttons on title bars. Winamp gets a permanant place on the screen, outside of the work area. Screen resolution is 1400x1050, strange, I know, but it's the native res of the laptop panel, so I don't have much choice ;). When was the last time anyone saw windows minimized like that? Sorry, I couldn't resist. :laugh:

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                            Daniel Ferguson
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                            Did you write your own shell, or use litestep or another shell replacement? "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown

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                            • D David Wulff

                              Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                              dandy72
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                              Here's mine: http://www.btinternet.com/~bttlxe/Danield-Desktop.gif (Thanks to Dave for hosting the file) I'm actually using ActiveDesktop (horrors!), a few HTML files, some scripts, and WSH. Not a single .ICO and proud of it.

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                                Here's mine: http://www.btinternet.com/~bttlxe/Danield-Desktop.gif (Thanks to Dave for hosting the file) I'm actually using ActiveDesktop (horrors!), a few HTML files, some scripts, and WSH. Not a single .ICO and proud of it.

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                                David Wulff
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                                http://www.btinternet.com/~bttlxe/Danield-Desktop.gif Daniel Desormeaux wrote: I'm actually using ActiveDesktop (horrors!), a few HTML files, some scripts, and WSH When I first saw it I thought for a moment that you were using some obscure Linuz distro until I noticed the shortcut for Internet Explorer. Well what can I say? It is certainly "unique". :rolleyes: ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                                  Did you write your own shell, or use litestep or another shell replacement? "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown

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                                  wParam
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                                  Yep, wrote it all myself. I looked at the litestep source to see how to create a system tray, but the rest was just me coding in my spare time. Unfortunantly it was also my first win32 program, so even though it's gone througn a major revision since then some of the tactics I used are pretty horrendous. (Like before I found out about malloc() I was using the registry to store dynamic data.)

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                                  • D David Wulff

                                    Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                                    Kannan Kalyanaraman
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                                    Ditto :-) I just happened to see the link on your sig. and set the pic as wallpaper for my otherwise void background :-) Thanks for the wallpaper ... p.s starring :bob: for a long time makes me dizzy Kannan

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                                    • D David Wulff

                                      http://www.btinternet.com/~bttlxe/Danield-Desktop.gif Daniel Desormeaux wrote: I'm actually using ActiveDesktop (horrors!), a few HTML files, some scripts, and WSH When I first saw it I thought for a moment that you were using some obscure Linuz distro until I noticed the shortcut for Internet Explorer. Well what can I say? It is certainly "unique". :rolleyes: ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                                      dandy72
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                                      I'm all for instant-access functionality...there's probably 100 items instantly accessible with a single click... I hardly ever use the Start menu, in fact I wish I could totally get rid of the taskbar, if not for the list of running programs and the tray...

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                                        That's definetely unique wParam. :-) When you boot, how do you get your shell to run instead of Explorer's? What are the A O W buttons for? Regards, Alvaro Kinda hard to sign my name without anything to write with. Anyone got a pen?

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                                        wParam
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                                        To change the shell, you either set the shell= line in system.ini (in win9x) or change HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell to something else. In NT it's nice because even if you enter a path that doesn't exist, you can still start task manager and run somethign that way. Note that explorer will not show a start button and desktop unless it is set to be the shell. As for the buttons: A - (this letter is completely arbitrary) brings up a menu for quickly setting hotkeys to switch between windows. I use this when I have lots of winword.exe's open, because they all look the same in alt+tab O - Various options to perform on windows, such as setting transparency or alpha blending, setting always on top, cutting holes in, hiding, or terminating. W - Windowshade mode, like on a mac. It also allows you to set hotkeys for any command you could normally perform, so I have hotkeys for various things like controlling winamp. I also have ctrl+shift+alt+delete, which means "terminate the process that belongs to the window my mouse is pointing at" which I use way more often than I should. ;)

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                                        • D David Wulff

                                          Okay, so I'm bored, but it would be interesting to see what my fellow CPians choose to stare blankly at for eight hours each day (well six if you count the time they spend at this site). Here is my work desktop. What does your's look like? If you can't upload the picture anywhere, feel free to e-mail it to me and I can stick it on our webserver (BT are paying for it so why should I care? ;)) Just remember to compress it to at least 200 kb or my poor modem at home may well explode! ____________________ David Wulff There was a young man called Dave, Who dug up a prositutes grave, She was mouldy as shìt, And missing a tit, But look at the money he saved. Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.

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                                          Bruce Duncan
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                                          Cripes! This thread dropped off the radar quickly, but here goes anyway... My Work Desktop, it doesn't always look like this, this is a loan pc, while mine is in the shop, it died last week monday :(( My Home Desktop, nice and clean, I prefer to use the menu's than desktop icons. Though I do have another toolbar docked to the left of the screen. Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
                                          Hi everyone. My name's Bruce. And I suffer from VB.

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