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Metspitzer
I have cleaned up my desktop by making a folder on the desktop called
"Crap that used to be on the desktop"
"Crap that used to be on the desktop"
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Gene E. Bloch
Look into Fences,
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp?ref=fa_101
It has a free and a paid version.
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Peter Jason
A good start. But there is a suite of apps called
"SysinternalsSuite" which contains among other things, three
additional desktops making 4 in total. Therefore you can have a
whole new desktop just for junk!
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VanguardLH
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VanguardLH
Apparently the crap is still shortcuts that you still want to access.Metspitzer said:
By placing in a folder, you'll still see that "crap" folder on your
desktop. Why not push it into your Start menu and have it auto-expand
to show a list (rather than a shortcut in your Start menu that ends up
having to open Windows Explorer to show its contents)? That is, you
could hide the crap folder even more by using a junction point to the
same folder (that you put under your %userprofile% but not under its
Desktop folder).
Other than registry-defined objects placed on your desktop, other
objects on your desktop, like folders, go under the following path:
%userprofile%\Desktop
If you don't want to see the crap-collection folder on your desktop but
still want access to whatever you put there, move the folder to
somewhere under %userprofile% other than the Desktop subfolder, like to
%userprofile%\CrapCollection. Then create a junction point to that
folder under your %userprofile%\Start Menu folder.
There are many utilities around for creating junction points (pointers
to another path). I use Rekenwonder's Junction Link Magic. By placing
a junction point in your Start menu, it will expand to show the contents
of that target folder just like adding the Control Panel or Favorites
folders do in the Start menu. The junction point in the Start menu
shows you the content of the folder but as a list under the Start menu
plus all the subfolders look like sub-menues under the Start menu.
By using a junction point, you don't have to see the crap folder on your
desktop but you get easy navigation to the contents of that folder and
its sub-folders using the menuing navigation afforded by the Start menu.
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Gene E. Bloch
Peter Jason's post reminded me of an article in this month's PC World
(the US one).
Finestra Virtual Desktops for Z-Systems
See
http://find.pcworld.com/72606
for PC World's link to the program, which the magazine says is free.
The article says the program supports 100 desktops. Sounds like one per
icon for me
I like the program's name.
It interested me, but what I really wanted was an extended desktop
where you could slide the desktop behind the computer screen, useful
for programs that have fixed windows larger than the screen size of the
computer. Netbook, anyone? That's where I've most recently experienced
the need.
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Peter Jason
I've had great luck withPeter Jason's post reminded me of an article in this month's PC World
(the US one).
Finestra Virtual Desktops for Z-Systems
See
http://find.pcworld.com/72606
for PC World's link to the program, which the magazine says is free.
The article says the program supports 100 desktops. Sounds like one per
icon for me
I like the program's name.
It interested me, but what I really wanted was an extended desktop
where you could slide the desktop behind the computer screen, useful
for programs that have fixed windows larger than the screen size of the
computer. Netbook, anyone? That's where I've most recently experienced
the need.
http://www.sevenforums.com/customiz...rfix-manage-folder-window-positions-size.html
because the desktop windows now keep their size and position and even
the icon views within them.
Before this these would all change at random. Now I just imbed
folder within folder as required and keep the "large icon" view
activated. Finding programs is easier than before.
Great folders have little folders behind their backs to site 'em,
And little folders have lesser folders, and so ad infinitum.....
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Char Jackson
I know the feeling. I emptied the Recycle Bin a few days ago.
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mechanic
Is there a question in there somewhere?
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
No; he was just sharing what he thought might be useful to some. Hemechanic said:
might be right! (Though when I read it I was reminded of the feature in
XP, and presumably in 7 too, that automatically puts icons you haven't
used for a while in a folder called something like "unused desktop
icons"; I turned that off fairly soon, as I like my desktop to stay as I
put it, and I wondered if Metspitzer had done so too and forgotten about
it. Or maybe 7 doesn't have it.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
The web is a blank slate; you can't design technology that is 'good'. You can't
design paper that you can only write good things on. There are no good or evil
tools. You can put an engine in an ambulance or a tank. - Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
Radio Times 2009-Jan-30 to -Feb-5.
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Metspitzer
I turned that "feature" off about the first couple of times it popped
up. I put temp stuff on the desktop so I can use them and then delete
them. Sometimes I end up keeping temp stuff, just because it ends up
being used again. Having temp stuff on the desktop forces me to
address it.
I have an XP machine with a full hard drive. It was full because that
is what I was shooting for. After seeing it pop up more than once the
same day. I searched for the option of turning it off. When I found
out it takes a regedit to turn it off, I moved some of the data to
another drive. I haven't noticed it as much with Win7, but XP seemed
to have many annoying "features" that could not be changed.
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DanS
I hadn't heard of this utility until now.
Unfortunately, reading all the caveats, it's very limited.
I don't think the original SysInternals would have put their name on this.
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DanS
Really.
I have no desktop functionality and can not store any shorcuts, files, folders, or
anything else on the desktop......at all.
The only thing showing on my monitors is the pretty cool dual monitor wallpaper I've
selected.
The only access to the "Desktop" is the "Desktop" selection of Windows Explorer.
Many people couldn't handle not having traditional desktop functionality to store the
100's of icons and downloaded files that are matrixed across the screen covering up
that beautiful wallpaper they spent two hours browsing for and finally picked out.
I shudder to think what/how many icons are there from things I've installed putting
shorcuts and whatnot there, since I haven't looked there in a long time.
(Oh wait, after looking it's not too bad. I forgot, I cleaned that folder a while ago and the
only thing there are 3 folders my son has video clips in for various projects, and a
finished/rendered video file of his latest collab. music video I'm not going to share with
anyone because it's embarassing to a degree since its rap music and I, certainly am
not a rap music person. I'll take Motorhead over Eninem any and every day of the week.
The other issue is because we/he is not black like most rap artists are, although, IMO,
he is very good at it, which makes it oh-so-much-more-worse for it being rap. It's hard
to be supportive when I really detest the genre. I listen to all kinds of music, and while
I'm hard rock/metal to the core, I could still belt out a verse or two of Copacobana or an
Elvis song, or even some Peaches & Herb......but rap? It's funny....the wife will put on
one of "her" radio stations, or play an MP3, and I'll start singing along with a song and
she'll look at me like blown away that I know *that* song. I think the last time it was a
Cher song.......no wait.......Carly Simon.)
Is that enough useless information.
(Note: While I would never such start a thread like this announcing useless information,
I will however support it's continuation by offering up a large amount of even more
useless, but none-the-less very accurate information, to be strewn about precariously
in a menacing fashion.)
(I've also drunk maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much coffee......*way* too much coffee
even, sorry. Coffee didn't use to affect me that much. I'd drink it until shortly before I
went to bed, but now it's a different story. It's like boom!!!!!! I'm awake, I can sense my
heartrate is up, and I just get really intense into what I'm doing, and keep going and
going and going and going. I can't drink coffeee past 7PM now or it keeps me up and I
have trouble falling asleep. I will just lie there an my mind will just race from one subject
to another to another and I keep coming up with all these ideas and things I want to do
with beit a work issue, or maybe something on my project vehicle, or maybe it will have
something to do with a program I'm writing, although I haven't started any new projects
lately, I have been tweaking one from time to time just making these little tiny
incremental changes and updates and fixing bugs, well wait that's not true, I did start a
new project recently, but it was cancelled shortly after it started. It was a GUI front end
to FFMPEG I was going to write (even though there is already one) so my
aforementioned son could work with his aforementioned videos in an unmentioned
video editiong software package as they are HD video and very CPU intensive, MP4 &
MOV, but have since found a better editor that uses proxy editing that works on
thumbnail-like videos it makes of your very large HD videos, that allows the program to
easily edit and show realtime previewing and then when you do the final render, it uses
the HD source ones and you end up with a far less amount quality loss from the
origianls than if you transcode them to work in the editor and then render form the
transcoded files, so this is why I had cancelled development for that project.
Hey....I'm outta coffee. I hope there's still creamer. My son has a habit of finishing all
the french vanilla creamer and not telling anyone so when I go to the fridge in the
morning there is none. When that happens I usually then use powered hot chocolate
mix along with milk, but you have to make sure to use the ones without the
marshmallows, or else they will melt and then fight the cocao powder for dominance in
the coffee. Did I write cocao above instead of cocoa.......must be a Freudin
slips......DOH!!!!!......Ooops......LOL.
.......I'll be right back.............
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Char Jackson
I know it's ancient history, but in case anyone else stumbles across
this I'd like to point out that a Registry edit isn't necessary. Just
uncheck the box!
Open the display properties, select the Desktop tab, click Customize
Desktop, then clear the checkbox for "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard Every
60 Days".
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...e-unused-icons-on-your-desktop-popup-balloon/>
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mechanic
Yesss!
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Quilljar
Thanks for Fences Gene,
This is the coolest thing I have used for years. I have three screens and a
very messy lot of icons!
Quilly
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp?ref=fa_101
It has a free and a paid version.
This is the coolest thing I have used for years. I have three screens and a
very messy lot of icons!
Quilly
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
Look into Fences,
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp?ref=fa_101
It has a free and a paid version.
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Metspitzer
Thanks
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Gene E. Bloch
That's not at all what I'm talking about. Let me expand for clarity.
My netbook has a 900x600 screen (the 600 is correct, and I'm too lazy
to verify the 900).
Let's consider an applications that has a fixed window of, say,
1200x900. It's larger than the netbook's screen and not movable or
resizable, so I can't see it all.
I'd like to be able to set my netbook's screen to, say, 1600x1080. But
I can't, and anyway that's too big, so I want a program that gives me
that screen size and that also lets me grab a portion of the screen and
slide it (the whole screen, not the application window) so that I can
see what's offscreen on any edge.
In years past, I have had software that does that, so it's not a
wild-ass dream. It's just that lately when I wanted such software, I
couldn't track any down.
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Thip
I've kept my Desktop completely bare for years by using QuickLaunch and aDanS said:
teeny app called PopSel. I'm the polar opposite of being OCD, but those
icons just irritate the heck out of me.
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DanS
(Is the polar opposite of OCD not caring about anything ?)
PopSel seems to be like a program I used back in the Win3.11 days that was a popup
menu launcher so you didn;t need to use the lame "Program Manager" and it's groups...
.....and it was subsequently the inspiration for my own version of the popup menu
launcher.