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  • Squeek
    let it snow~
    • Jan 2004
    • 14444

    #76
    Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

    Originally posted by -Tibs-
    I have about 100 icons on my desktop. I save things there when people send me stuff and forget to move it. Once a month or so I will sort it.
    How do you find anything then?

    Granted, every so often I will have a few MP3s I've been sent on my desktop and I keep them there because I want to listen to them more. Then I move them and add them to my playlist. This process lasts about a week.

    I bet your start menus are as ugly as your desktops. Mine is four folders. Accessories, Games, Useful Junk, and Junk. We all know what Accessories does. Games has all of the shortcuts to all the games on my computer and another folder in it for the Microsoft games (I deleted the Internet spades and suchnot. I use the other ones pretty often). Junk has shortcuts to programs I rarely use. Maybe twice a year. Useful Junk has shortcuts to programs I use about every two months (Antispyware, etc). No folder has more than ten things in it.

    That's it. My quicklaunch has no copies of any of the programs in those folders. I use the programs in my quicklaunch at least once a week. Most of them get used daily. The three showing are used about 20 times a day.

    See, I get to know what I do and what I don't do and organize as such. I know that I hate having to minimize everything to get to a program I want to open, and I know that having too much crap on the desktop will make me lose time when I want to use something.

    I keep all of my saved things (songs, anime, etc) in one folder on a hard drive where that folder is the only thing in existance, then branch that into categories (songs, anime, etc). That folder is on the opposite side of the quicklaunch. I can open it without having to browse to that folder. Even better is that I can access it like a menu and get to where I need to go in seconds. All without messing with what I'm currently doing.

    But hey. That's just me.

    ~Squeek

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    • Moogy
      嗚呼
      FFR Simfile Author
      • Aug 2003
      • 10303

      #77
      Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

      http://www.machogang.net/desktop62506.jpg - Persona 3 wallpaper

      http://www.machogang.net/desktop62806.jpg - Eureka seveN wallpaper; currently in use
      Plz visit my blog

      ^^^ vintage signature from like 2006 preserved

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      • -Tibs-
        FFR Player
        • May 2006
        • 5235

        #78
        Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

        Originally posted by MrESqueek
        Words.
        It's horrible yes.

        Luckily the only thing I care about, My Music, is sorted into folders for genre and all labelled in one format and generally nazified.

        Metal covers of vidya game songs

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        • Suzuru
          FFR Player
          • Oct 2005
          • 537

          #79
          Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

          I clean it up, every few weeks. They accumulate because I use them, more or less. I save a lot of stuff to Desktop, so it's not confusing later. As for finding what you need, it's simple placement retention memory. Basically you know where it is, sort of like typing on keyboard without looking.

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          • JurseyRider734
            lil j the bad b-word
            • Aug 2003
            • 7506

            #80
            Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

            I only keep Desktop icons I use on my desktops, but I usually don't use them that often. My start menu has everything I need.

            Firefox
            AIM
            Itunes
            PSPX
            Limewire
            Paint
            Pokerstars
            MSN
            Word
            Calculator (this one changes)
            Originally posted by Arch0wl
            I'd better be considering I own roughly six textbooks on logic and have taken courses involving its extensive use

            Originally posted by Afrobean
            Originally Posted by JurseyRider734
            the fact that you're resorting to threatening physical violence says a lot anyway.
            Just that you're a piece of shit who can't see reason and instead deserves a fucking beating.

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            • -Tibs-
              FFR Player
              • May 2006
              • 5235

              #81
              Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

              Come to think about it, I only ever click MSN and Firefox on my desktop when I first log on. Everything else is done via menus.

              I could really cut down my desktop.

              Metal covers of vidya game songs

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              • Moogy
                嗚呼
                FFR Simfile Author
                • Aug 2003
                • 10303

                #82
                Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                Squeek would probably hate the directory scheme on my computer.

                C:\ and E:\ both have over 200 folders in just their base dirs. They also have thousands of loose files both in the base dir, as well as in random folders everywhere.

                Finding anything useful is impossible unless you know that C:\Bittorrent, E:\Downloads\, E:\Downloads\Bittorrent, and E:\Downloads\Soulseek\Music are the folders where I keep stuff. Everything else is just random crap lying around my computer that I don't even know what is.
                Plz visit my blog

                ^^^ vintage signature from like 2006 preserved

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                • YungYung
                  FFR Player
                  • Jul 2005
                  • 810

                  #83
                  Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                  clairmai lol hvam lol

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                  • Squeek
                    let it snow~
                    • Jan 2004
                    • 14444

                    #84
                    Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                    =/ Moogy

                    Why.

                    I just don't understand.

                    Root folder: X:\My Stuff. This folder appears on the desktop as an expandable option, much like quicklaunch. Clicking the arrow shows these folders:

                    Anime, Downloads, Games, Junk, Manga, Movies, Songs, TV Shows.

                    Anime Folders: Movies, Music, Series, Videos. Movies = Anime Movies. Music = Anime Music. Get the trend going on here? Music is sorted in an odd manner, but it works. There are folders for each show I have a soundtrack to, then subfolders for discs. There is one folder for OPs and EDs that I enjoy.

                    Downloads: Where downloads are downloaded to, then sent to another folder.

                    Games Folders: Music, Playable, Videos. Music = Video Game Music. Playable = Games that you don't install. Stepmania is one. Videos = Video game videos. Trailers, etc. The music folder here is similar to the anime version. I keep soundtracks with their respective games and just scattered songs in another folder.

                    Junk: Folder for install files I need to keep handy. Also pieces of installations I just don't want lying around but still want to be able to have easy access.

                    Manga: Folders of manga. Each folder is subdivided into volumes and chapters, depending on the manga.

                    Movies: Folders of movies. Folder name = Name of movie. File name = Disc 1, Disc 2, etc. I figure that I already know what folder I'm in, so there's no need to have the movie name in the file name.

                    Songs: Organized by artist. These songs are not associated with video games or anime. They all go here.

                    TV Shows: Amazing concept coming!! I keep each show in its own folder! Then I separate the episodes into their seasons and name them by their episode number. Hilariously devious!

                    Keeping your computer organized is unbelievably easy. Just stick with your organizational method that you prefer and sort new things to accomodate to your organization.

                    ~Squeek

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                    • Snowcrafta
                      V's beta-male entourage
                      • May 2005
                      • 2873

                      #85
                      Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                      I don't understand why people DONT use their desktops.

                      Seriously, it's not using something that is incredibly useful.

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                      • Afrobean
                        Admiral in the Red Army
                        • Dec 2003
                        • 13262

                        #86
                        Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                        empty lol



                        ps shrunken for the homies

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                        • jewpinthethird
                          (The Fat's Sabobah)
                          FFR Music Producer
                          • Nov 2002
                          • 11711

                          #87
                          Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~



                          Squeek is going to have a sh*t fit.

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                          • Suzuru
                            FFR Player
                            • Oct 2005
                            • 537

                            #88
                            Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                            I am all for keeping computer organized but there is a point where it is just an overkill. Balance is the key.

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                            • Squeek
                              let it snow~
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 14444

                              #89
                              Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                              Ugh.

                              Folders.

                              They do a world of good.

                              ~Squeek

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                              • TK_Killer
                                FFR Player
                                • Apr 2006
                                • 251

                                #90
                                Re: Post your desktop thread ~5th style~

                                I was so afraid of Squeek, so I did a desktop cleanup before I print screened it.

                                Got to have my boat as my desktop.

                                -TK_Killer

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