what's your desktop look like?

[Andrew Pratt]

I thought this might be interesting....so what's your desktop look like? As you can see I hate to have to many icons cluttering the desktop so I keep it as clean as possible and use the toolbar beside the start button instead. here is a screen capture of the desktop

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[Bing Fung]

Cool 8) Where is that image from Andrew?


My Desk 1600 x 1200 / 32 Bit / 85 Hz

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Bing

[Lex]

Well, this is a new system. You must see one of my regulars sometime, hahah. A clean desktop? What's that. :LOL:

You guys probably make your beds too I bet, huh? Bing, I have seen that photo before, in my quantum searches. I frequently go to Nasa sites and such for name ideas. Where you think I came up with Silver Centauri?

Lex

[SiliGoose]

Nice and clean I can assure you.

I need to set up the web space my ISP provides me so I can post an image every now and then. I should really do that some time.




-Sili

[Bing Fung]

Sili, send it to me if you want and I'll host the image

Com'mon Lex, lets see it... He's probally got trashy shortcuts he doesn't want us to see :roll: :twisted:




Bing

[JonMarsh]

My weirdo setup won't even allow you to put icons on the "desktop"- when a program does so, they wind up slotted into the desktop tab of the workspace shelf.

It also doesn't have a conventional task bar, but the tasks show up as a string of semi-translucent icons starting from the upper left down. The only things normally on the desktop are the active programs, the "Atomic clock" (calibrated on line), and the re-cycler, which has a pretty cool animation when you drag files to it.

-Jon






Earth First!
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We'll screw up the other planets later....

[Andrew Pratt]

Come on Doug lets see the image...

If anyone needs an image to be hosted just send it to me via email.

Bing the dino image was on a PC at the mall one day at the DSL booth so I came back with a floppy and "borrowed" it

[Bing Fung]

Doug.... Doug..... Doug..... :LOL:

Jon, what is the app you run to give you that desktop again? If I were to judge a person by his desktop, I would say that Jon looks like a tweeker and a Geeker just by his apps 8)

Andrew, borrowed with floppy...heheh Good job!




Bing

[JonMarsh]

Hey Bing,

And of course, I'm displaying the most politically correct web site to be visiting, too!

It's the WINSTEP enviroment that I run; I use it partly because I can make an XP and NT4 system work essentially the same for all everyday tasks- it reduces the potential for confusion when moving between various systems (work desktop, work laptop both on NT).

Find it here.

Gawd, me a geek? I'm just an aging ex-hippie rock and roll musician. Just ask ThomasW. He'll vouch for me. :LOL:

-Jon




Earth First!
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We'll screw up the other planets later....

[Lex]

Jon, ygm.

Andrew, you forget, my desktop is in a box, lol. Actually, it's on the Tyan system which is down for the count man.

This one is very vanilla, nothing there, just a few icons. nothing like what I usually have, lol.

Lex

[Lex]

Ok, here it is currently

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[Andrew Pratt]

looks like doug's into multitasking

[Bing Fung]

Nice desk top Doug, love what you've done with the place :LOL:




Bing

[Lex]

Guess I had just rebooted Andrew, that's why there is so little open. :LOL:

Bing, thought you might like that. 8) All it needs is "Desktop by Bing" and your ready to market it, lol.

Lex

[Bing Fung]

Classic stuff Lex! :LOL: I don't think you have enough apps running.... :P It's not that bad You should see my friends at work, it's got files and short cuts all over tarnation. I'll see if i can get a shot for you guys.


Here is my desk in operation mode.

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For general surfing I run my browser in a window page, with usually Winamp (my fav freeware :P ). Only when I'm running apps like Photo editing, drawing, spread sheets..etc, do I run in full screen mode. Most times I run in a windowed page that is quite smaller then full screen. Don't know why, I have always done it like that.

I guess that's the joy of a 19" monitor at 1600x1200 resolution.




Bing

[Lex]

Bing, next time I have a system up and running for a while, I will show you my desktop then. Remember, this system had only been up for a few days from a fresh reload. Now you guys see why I like a lot of ram, huh? lol. I have had as many as 17-18 browser windows open at once. haha.

Bing, I am the same way. Rarely do I have a window more than 3/4-4/5ths the size of my monitor display.

Lex

[Sonnie Parker]

My desktop is not so bad cluttered.

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I keep as large a window as I can with my browser.

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SONNIE

[Bing Fung]

Nice looking desktop Sonnie!

OK as promised, here is my M8's destop at work. I tricked him into sending it to me before he knew what I was up to. After I told him, he said he would have cleaned it up before hand. I said that's exactly what I didn not want him to do... Heheh, I can be such a bastard as I'm sure he'll tell me :LOL:

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You really have to see it in full size to appreciate it, I forgot to ask, however it must be at 1600x1200 for it fits my monitor.




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

Bing 8O
that would drive me crazy!

[Bing Fung]

Heh, :LOL: Yeah I knew you would want to hit "Clean Desktop Items" and " Auto Arrange Icons" Andrew, but you have to see this guy in action. He runs customised menus in Autocad/Mechcanical Desktop/Inventor, and moves so fast you can't keep up with which card is the King of spades 8O :P And he knows exactly where each item is on his desktop.

Pure Power user!




Bing

[Sonnie Parker]

Gosh, I don't see how Bing... that's pretty crowded. I would get lost finding what I need.


SONNIE

[Jehan]

Bit late to the party but here's mine, Win XP Pro no extra utilities - what you see above is a customized Quicklaunch, and tweaked Windows Classic color scheme. Lean and mean

Desktop (1600x1200)

[Bing Fung]

Here is an e-mail to me from my Buddy with the desk top.....

Date Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:17:22 -0600
From Glenn.Judkins@corning.com
To bing@bingtech.com
Subject Re: desktop
Parts Message Source

You're a bastard.


:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Cool desktop Jehan, I like the custom Icons you have on top, what program do you run that gives you that?




Bing

[Jehan]

Bing, running nothing at all. It's a Quicklaunch toolbar with large icons...

The icons are from OSX and have just been converted over to .ico format (they look a lot better at that size than scaling up regular windows icons).

[Sonnie Parker]

I like that quicklaunch Jehan....pretty cool! 8)


SONNIE

[Bing Fung]

Nicely done Jehan! 8)




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

very nice jehan..now if only I had a huge monitor to use those large icons

[Trevor Schell]

Sonnie,,I love that New York city Desktop..

I need that one.
Could you link me to that graphic?

Thanks,




Trevor

[gadget]

bump

[Mats]

OK, to bump this up on top again...

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Mats
HTGuide

[Jeff Kowerchuk]

First off, here's mine. Dull dull dull....but I don't like much overhead.

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Now a question... Jehan! - where did you get those icons? They ROCK! I've always wanted to have those OSX type icons for my setup. Please share.

/Jeff