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Richard Davey
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It's not cluttered because I know where to go for every single program I need I run my main apps on the first monitor and then I've got my email client + Winamp + FTP always open on my second monitor.

Wallpaper is from the game Duality.

The only icons on my desktop are those I use frequently. I have quite a lot more installed than you can see, but then who doesn't.

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Quote: "Hmmm, so Rich is a neat freak"


You want neat freak? You should see my desktop. The only icons I have displayed are "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", "My Network Places", and "My documents". Everything else is thrown inside a "My Desktop" folder, each icon categorized as a game, program, project, etc, LOL


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I stuff all my .exes in a folder called applications

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David T
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I started up one morning and half of my desktop had disappeared

And it wasn't XP's paranoid deesktop clearer either, that was the first thing to go when I reinstalled XP

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I have 0 icons on my desktop on both Windows and Linux, I just use Aston's and XFce's docking panels respectively. Icons just get in the way of my desktop winamp visulisations .

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@RPGamer - Are you really running at 800 * 600? Thought nobody used that anymore.

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My updated desktop :




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You had to brag about the fact that you had VS.Net, didn't ya...


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Preston C
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@RPGamer: Theres a Mat_Edit Pro icon on your desktop of puny resolution. Thats gotta be faked (unless I didnt realize it was released).


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hey
rich's desktop is almost as loaded as mine
great desktop by the way rpggamer. lol. "The simpsons"

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John H
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Preston - I got a beta release since I am a beta tester

Yes I do use 800*600

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Quote: "You had to brag about the fact that you had VS.Net, didn't ya..."

Too right - saved around £800...


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Dave J
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Quote: "The only icons on my desktop are those I use frequently."


You play Halo and UT2K3 frequently? And here I was thinking you actually did work!


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Rich-- just noticed (your comment about) the bottom three icons-- tch tch ...

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HZence
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Rich, what's your name under UT2003? Maybe I'll see you some time!


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IS K++ even avialible anymore???

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As far as I know, yes...


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Richard Davey
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Quote: "You play Halo and UT2K3 frequently?"


Absolutely! Halo more than Tourny though. You'll find me on Halo servers most nights for a quick blast (or a longer one if the mood takes me). UT I mostly play against the bots.

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Yeah, I used to play Halo alot online too but now I'm hooked on Call of Duty.


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Due to the ruling my dad and I are looking for it again. We can't find it (and was my post deleted for illegalness?)

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It's easy to find with http://www.google.com

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tried that

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What are you looking for ?


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ok...you asked for it...



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K++, I think I found it now.

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mine is VERY cluttered http://www.lochviewwest.plus.com/desktop.jpgbut it was all organised and i could find everything untill i accidentally lowered my res and xp scrambled it, (it is back to high res: 1280x1024)
but the background image is http://www.lochviewwest.plus.com/images/logo.jpg
i sorta made the image and it is the logo for the modding team i am part of called larinar.

http://www.larinar.tk
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A picture of workspace can be found on my web site.


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mm3zct - I can't stand your wallpaper, but your desktop is great I guarantee most people will look at it and go "what a mess?!" but you're actually using the desktop in the way in which it was intended. Like me, you store files you're currently working on, things you need to get at quickly, etc. Just like a real desk. Most people don't and just have app icons (if at all) and then spend half their life clicking around Explorer windows locating the things that matter - the actual files

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I agree with that Rich.
I have most of my current stuff right under the programming or job directory on my desktop.
My wallpaper is a photo of an acrylic painting that I did a few years back.

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Here's a question:

Does anyone know if there is a way to save the location of icons on your desktop?

The reason I ask is that I often have to change to 800 x 600 (for reasons I don't need to go into) and then of course, the icons are moved because they no longer fit where they were. When I change back to 1600 x 1200 they are still in the position of the smaller desktop.

Can I save their positions whilst in the large desktop and then reload when I come back?

Thanks



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I dont know if there's a way to say icon positions but I think you'll need another hd for it 6 hard drives is a little over kill don't you think?


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No I dont but jeeze! Photoshop, Texture Maker, Lightwave, Gamespace!! You must be LOADED!


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All payed for courtesy of the Queen - God bless her!

And as for those 6 drives(600 Gb) they are mostly full and I'm struggling for space.

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scraggle you have used 600 gb?
my hd is 20gb and i thought i had too much stuff on it! (a few gigs free)
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I am struggling with my 12 gb

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Notice 3 of his HDD's are aply named "Movies" and another "Media", it's not hard to fill up 480 gig with ripped movie files in the form of ISO's or images. I just hope they're legal.


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Quote: "I just hope they're legal."


Thanks for you concern.

I like to think of them as backups

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Here is my desktop, nothing fancy.

http://www.rpgcyco.net/images/rpgcyco_desktop.jpg

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I've just found out, I'm meant to have 200gb on mine but XP says it only has 127gb! Cheats!

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Quote: "I've just found out, I'm meant to have 200gb on mine but XP says it only has 127gb! Cheats! "


Yeah, gotta hate the backup partition. Mine was supposed to be 40GB, but instead I only got 30GB!


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I got rid of the backup section when I got my computers If you need to re-install Windows, then its best to do it properly and not from the pre-supplied backup..
Got Lemmings today - realised how much I hated the game


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How can you hate lemmings?

I used to hate it when I was young and foolish and I didn't realise that the mouse wouldn't go where I wanted it because it was filthy!

But now with optical mice (mouses?, meece?) Lemmings has got to be great .... surely?

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Quote: "No I dont but jeeze! Photoshop, Texture Maker, Lightwave, Gamespace!! You must be LOADED!
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Oh really? I would get banned from these forums if I showed my desktop...


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I hate Lemmings Too! It is on the list of my most tedious games ever!


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Gaming philistines!



forever!

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Lemmings was pretty cool on the SNES.

Best game ever - Bejewelled!!!


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The philistines were a relatively innocent civilization that was completely slaughtered and remains today as essentialy only an example of how complete genocide can be in the hands of fanatics .

Lemmings was okay, but waaay too frustrating for me. Puzzles have never been my thing.

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Quote: "Best game ever - Bejewelled!!!"


My girlfriend loves Bejewelled! So I wrote my own version for her using DBP. Couldn't possibly make it available for download though because I stole their graphics and sounds. shhh.... don't tell anyone

Can't see the thrill myself but she likes it.

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Well then, since this thread is about desktops, I'll post a few images I made this morning that you could use as your own Desktop background:

Computerized Cliff Field:


Dark Portal:


Exploding Sunset:



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