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[Volatar]

I just got a second monitor, so this is my desktop now:



And this is the only thing I use it for 



(I am actually serious, the only thing I use the second monitor for is DF.)

[Andir]

I use my second monitor for my steam chat windows and Google talk so I can see when someone messages me while I'm in a game.  Oh, and also the taskbar with the clock. :p

I think your second monitor is being more productive than mine.

[SolarShado]

How'd you get the taskbar to span across both screens Volatar?

EDIT:

Spoiler: here's mine (click to show/hide)

Found the wallpaper in the Blender gallery

EDIT2: heh, my desktop's the same color as the forum background

[Andir]

How'd you get the taskbar to span across both screens Volatar?

I know nVidia had a setting for that... not sure where it's buried now.  The "downside" to it though is that some games recognize the entire width as a single screen so if you load up something in fullscreen it will place your center of focus right where the borders of your monitors are (if they are both the same resolution, etc.)

[SolarShado]

Oh, is that what "TwinView" is? I've heard of it...

[Volatar]

Actually, my taskbar stretched across both screens because windows has no idea that I have two screens (dual headed graphics card). I actually don't like it that way though, so after I took this picture I went into Control Panel -> Nvidia nView Desktop Manager and disabled that. I also set it so that things can't stretch across the screens (I can hit fullscreen and it fills one screen), and error messages pop up on the left screen, rather than in the middle where I can't read them

[Beeskee]

SO. MANY. ICONS. *weeps*

Could be worse. The store I work at had one customer who literally had more icons and files on the desktop than windows could display even at max resolution. As well as more things running in the system tray than windows would display. It gives up on those at 100 or so.

My home desktop and work desktop are relatively clean. Not spartan but definitely not too bad. At work it's a bunch of PDFs that I need. At home it's mostly shortcuts to games.

[Tylui]

Here's mine at work...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I used to have only Recycle Bin, My Computer, My Network Places, and My Documents and then use the Quick Launch for all of my icons. But now I've decided it's easier to just add the Desktop as a tool bad on the task bar and throw all the icons there. That way I can get to them however I want.

[Rose]

I have more icons than my desktop can show, but I have them turned off, since I use the desktop more for a temp space than anything else.

[Beeskee]

I have more icons than my desktop can show, but I have them turned off, since I use the desktop more for a temp space than anything else.

That probably won't slow windows down then, but if they are all visible then all the stuff gets loaded into memory and slows down the computer. (WAY down if you have thousands of files like the guy I was talking about had, and he had installers and stuff too, not just shortcuts.)

I keep a shortcut to a 'junk' folder on the desktop so I can easily put files there instead. Load on the operating system: 1 shortcut.

[Aklyon]

SO. MANY. ICONS. *weeps*

Could be worse. The store I work at had one customer who literally had more icons and files on the desktop than windows could display even at max resolution. As well as more things running in the system tray than windows would display. It gives up on those at 100 or so.

My home desktop and work desktop are relatively clean. Not spartan but definitely not too bad. At work it's a bunch of PDFs that I need. At home it's mostly shortcuts to games.

Wait, how do you have more icons than desktop? I thought that couldn't happen.

[Beeskee]

Wait, how do you have more icons than desktop? I thought that couldn't happen.

Just keep saving stuff to the desktop...   I don't recommend it though, it slows down windows a fair bit, especially on older machines.

How do you USE icons on the desktop if you can't see them? You can open the desktop folder, it's a directory like any other, except the contents are shown on the desktop.

[ECrownofFire]

Wait, how do you have more icons than desktop? I thought that couldn't happen.

Just keep saving stuff to the desktop...   I don't recommend it though, it slows down windows a fair bit, especially on older machines.

How do you USE icons on the desktop if you can't see them? You can open the desktop folder, it's a directory like any other, except the contents are shown on the desktop.

You can actually change what folder displays on the desktop using the environment variables. I'm not sure what that might screw up though.

[ILikePie]

Not much if you know what you're doing.


When I was eight I used to think it was cool to have tons of icons, so hit ctrl + a and create shortcut. It wasn't a very pleasant sight. Also, to add more stuff than your desktop can show (and to view it later on) open your desktop in explorer.

[LASD]

The only cool thing in my desktop is the backgrounds. Now only if I could make a program that automatically changed them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The TF2 achievement icons are surprisingly suitable for my taste in desktop backgrounds, simple sleek pictures with few colors.

Taking this picture finally made me delete all the unnecessary shortcuts. Though I left all the flash games made by a friend of mine.