How do you know when you have too much on your desktop?

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How do you know when you have too much on your desktop?

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Well how do you? Oh and how do you fix it?

I know when - I have 1.9 GBs of data on it...
I also know when it start creeping into my wallpaper's actual picture of Avril (Which I finally fixed so it doesn't say "Avril Lavigne" on it).

How do I fix it? I have a folder "keep" on my desktop... It is never opened but whatever... Anything that I want to keep goes there... Installers always get kept... Even more so when their out of date installers that I can't get online... Anything that is only two rows in gets deleted... Even if I want to keep it (Unless I can give my self a time when I will use it (exact time)).
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one folder "my documents" i have "my DLs" everything from the net or drivers go in there, with out that, icons would be my background
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When you have 30 GB of useless shit.
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The only things I keep on my desktop are my hard drive icons, removable disk icons, and networked drive icons. Occasionally I keep temporary items, such as URL location files, things I need to copy to CDR/FTP space, on the desktop as well, but they always get moved to my Home directory or deleted. I hate having a cluttered desktop.
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My desktop is split into 4 rows. 2 rows of short cuts and what not on one side of the monitor then on the other side you have my folders and the computer icons
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When it gets as big as this....

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(Pic taken a LONG time ago....)
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Post by Moon Child »

geez matt... that's quite overloaded.

I wouldn't keep much on the desktop unless its not a big deal if its lost... like shortcuts, etc. because I was told in my comp. hardware class that its safer to have it elsewhere on your computer in a spot that can easily be backed up, like the my documents.
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KooLTaB101 wrote: (Pic taken a LONG time ago....)
i think he already changed it
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I figured he already did. the second part wasn't aimed at matt. it was just a general statement.
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KooLTaB101 wrote:When it gets as big as this....

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Mine is about as full as that.... i put everything on my desktop because i am lazy and it is the easist place to access stuff
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I have a folder in My Documents called "Desktop". Every few weeks I clear my desktop into there. Most of the stuff I put on my desktop I don't intend to keep for a long time. (like when I save a screenshot for uploading somewhere or download sample code to look at)
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Moon Child wrote:I figured he already did. the second part wasn't aimed at matt. it was just a general statement.
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