Nice small utility for Desktop icons

[Harrison]

Always useful to have such a utility as it is annoying when they all move around with resolution changes.

However I use a program called UltraMON which has this feature built in. If you don't know what this program is, it is designed to multi-monitor setups so you can configure how the tool bar works on each of the screens, how the background image is displayed across them all, and other things like controlling each monitors resolution. It is agreat utility that I highly recommend for all those with 2 monitors.

[xpect]

I tend to put on quick launch my really everyday apps, about 7, but quick launch is compressed only to show 3 icons in a way to maximise space. Then i create desktop folders to put the shortcuts in. The motive of doing this was precisely what Bloodwych said because of icons getting all messed up and lately a good way of having everything organized.

I'm also picky about having unnecessary tools running in the background. But this tool is indeed a good find for anyone relying on 'everything on the desktop'.

[Bloodwych]

Yeah, I use the quick launch bar too and "Total Commander" mainly for launching rather than explorer. I still like to have a few icons on my desktop however and it's nice to "snapshot" them as woody mentioned.

[Harrison]

I hate loads of icons on the desktop. Like to keep it to a minimum if possible with just Computer, Network and Recycle Bin on there all of the time, and then I put other files and folders on the desktop while I'm working with them, and then move them into another drive when finished.

My wife's laptop's desktop is a complete mess though. When I use it I can't find anything on there. The whole desktop is filled with icons from everything she has installed. But she seems to like it that way. Quite funny when she has installed something new then has to spend a couple of minutes hunting for the new icon!

[Shoonay]

I hate loads of icons on the desktop. Like to keep it to a minimum if possible [...]

Yup, same here.

I always feel sorry for all those poor computers my friends have... you click on the Start button and can see 823764827364 different shortcuts to programs, you look at the desktop and see 817236 different icons... sad.

I remember one guy posting once a screenshot of his desktop on some forums and asking for help if anyone could find his school project, lol

[Harrison]

That is funny.

Start menus are also a nightmare on most PCs that is true. Most people don't seem to understand that you can rearrange and change what is in the start menu. The first thing I do is create some sub folders for Games, Applications and Utilities, and then they can all be files away for easy finding.

[Bloodwych]

Startmenu spam and desktop spam are one of the disaster areas of Windows. Another strange thing that has never been addressed.

Program writers just dump stuff all over the place and if you move it around you can't uninstall without tidying up the shortcuts too as the uninstaller can't find them.

Some programs use folders; some don't; some have massively long names that expand the startmenu half way across the screen......UGH! Messy, messy messy.

As you guys have said however - most people just don't care and can live with the chaos!

[Stephen Coates]

I remember one guy posting once a screenshot of his desktop on some forums and asking for help if anyone could find his school project, lol

lol

how many icons did he have?

My Start > Programmes has a very long list and always has done. I use it to store everything as I only tend to use the Desktop or Quick launch.

[Shoonay]

the whole desktop was covered with icons and it was something around 1024x768 which was pretty much for that time (i used 800x600). of course, surely he was just joking, but iirc the thread was about how way too clean some people keep there xp's, without any useless icons, without even the background picture. So the guy showed how a desktop should look like, lol

oh, you guys remember some other movie on youtube when a guy uses the win's desktop assistance mode where someone else can take over your PC and do whatever he wants?
well, he requested his assistant to help him with something (can't remember what it was) and the other guy totally "broke" all his desktops icons, lol, hilarious that one was, if I could only remember how was it called..