Simplistic vs. "Cluttered but Organized" desktop

So what's your preference? A very clean desktop with no stray icons(well, perhaps recycle bin)? Or perhaps one that has all your program shortcuts but organized into distinguishable stacks? My desktop was once cluttered with lots of icons. Office programs on the left stack, games at the bottom stack, media programs(Virtual DJ, particle illusion, mixmeister, etc) at the right stack and browsers at the top stack...But then one day I saw my girlfriend's laptop and her desktop was clean. I adapted to the clean desktop principle since then...

Clean. Anything I don't use on a regular basis gets stuck in the "misc." folder.

Cluttered but organized. Why would I want to open my school projects and documents by going Windows --> My Document --> Open PDF file when I could just go Windows+D --> Open PDF?

Simple and clean. I have two icons on my desktop and those are ALice 2.2, and MyItLab and they are both for college. The rest of my stuff is either in folders on a taskbar. I use RocketDock.

For some reason I skipped over this. I don't know if this is mentioned in the Excalibur II guide on gamefaqs, but I bet that the Grand Dragon trick in disc 1 would save loads of time throughout the entire game. What you do is you before you go to Gizmaluke's Grotto, have Quina eat a Mandragora (have to deal about 500 damage first) in the forest near Chocobo Forest so that he/she learns Limit Glove. Keep going as normal until you free the moogle inside the giant bell in the Grotto. Once you've done this get into a battle and kill Quina. Go talk to the moogles and save your game (with Quina still dead). Next use a phoenix down so that Quina's health is 1. If it's not 1 then reset the game and try again. Once you have it at 1, save again and go up the vine to go outside. Once outside of the forested area, you can only get into battles with Grand Dragons. What you do is have Quina use Limit Glove, then Eat the dragon. If Quina gets killed before using Limit Glove, you can use a phoenix down to try to get his/her health back to 1 but I just reset the game if that happens. The dragon gives about 35,000 experience so that's about 8800 per character if they all live. I personally recommend saving after killing each one.

Though this was funny.

For some reason I skipped over this. I don't know if this is mentioned in the Excalibur II guide on gamefaqs, but I bet that the Grand Dragon trick in disc 1 would save loads of time throughout the entire game. What you do is you before you go to Gizmaluke's Grotto, have Quina eat a Mandragora (have to deal about 500 damage first) in the forest near Chocobo Forest so that he/she learns Limit Glove. Keep going as normal until you free the moogle inside the giant bell in the Grotto. Once you've done this get into a battle and kill Quina. Go talk to the moogles and save your game (with Quina still dead). Next use a phoenix down so that Quina's health is 1. If it's not 1 then reset the game and try again. Once you have it at 1, save again and go up the vine to go outside. Once outside of the forested area, you can only get into battles with Grand Dragons. What you do is have Quina use Limit Glove, then Eat the dragon. If Quina gets killed before using Limit Glove, you can use a phoenix down to try to get his/her health back to 1 but I just reset the game if that happens. The dragon gives about 35,000 experience so that's about 8800 per character if they all live. I personally recommend saving after killing each one.

No one cares.Charazani

[QUOTE="Charazani"]No one cares.Jandurin

I prefer toolbars on the Taskbar which help keep the desktop clean except for the apps I'm running.

I have boxes that separate my programs by genre (and game sub-genres). If I double-click the screen with the right button all icons fade. Best of both worlds :).

You gotta have a balance of both. I personally have long since turned desktop icons off. My desktop has app button things on it and some information on it, like the news and weather.

Clean...I cannot stand all those icons everywhere.

[QUOTE="Charazani"]No one cares.Jandurin

I prefer mine clean... Even the Recycle Bin is gone. horgen123

Clean.

Only time i have anything on my desktop is a folder containing stuff for a project im working on. the second im done, i put that folder in a special place for old projects :)

PS. for the love of god please rename the witcher 2 shortcut to "WITCHER 2" The start witcher 2 just makes me cry for some reason.achilles614

Maximalist.

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If you can describe my desktop, you'll have your answer.

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[QUOTE="Charazani"]No one cares.Jandurin

I keep short-term clutter on the dektop and nothing else.

I generally keep it simplish, with just some shortcuts to folders on my HDD.

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Though, I used to keep my torrents on the desktop until I realized I shouldn't due that, for severe lack of space on my OS SSD.

I've still got one file seeding on there that I want to keep seeding for a while.

I generally keep it simplish, with just some shortcuts to folders on my HDD.

Though, I used to keep my torrents on the desktop until I realized I shouldn't due that, for severe lack of space on my OS SSD.

I've still got one file seeding on there that I want to keep seeding for a while.

jaydough

What anime is that wallpaper from?

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I generally keep it simplish, with just some shortcuts to folders on my HDD.

Though, I used to keep my torrents on the desktop until I realized I shouldn't due that, for severe lack of space on my OS SSD.

I've still got one file seeding on there that I want to keep seeding for a while.

CHOASXIII

What anime is that wallpaper from?

Both are good, I guess, but not fantastic.

Index is a shounen adventure series, and Railgun is a spin-off that is basically a more moe and SOL version of Index.

But I really like them for some reason.

edit: probably just that most of the characters are good, and the art direction appeals to me.

But stay away from it if you know anything about physics or Christianity, because the writers don't, but pretend they do.