How do you keep your desktop?

[Veho Nex]

How do you keep your desktop?

Do you store everything in neat little folders or is it spaced out to fit in with the picture

Do you use custom themes or are you a default kind of person

these are my desktop themes depending on what mood I'm in and what time of the day it is.

Amphitrite:

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Ascension:

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Chinatown:

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Vampiristic:Note: you'll have to click link beriut doesn't think its appropriate for the front room so it's probably not going to be to well accepted here

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Exodus:

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Jazz:

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Vista Bug:

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Wensday's nightmare:

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Yellow blue:

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Most are named after the theme

[Mikeus Caesar]

I use the Windows Classic theme. I let my desktop gradually clutter up with icons until it's about half-full, then clean it up, leaving only my essential stuff.

[Caius]

I use the oldie Windows theme. You know, the Win98 one.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I use the standard Windows XP theme, with varying backgrounds. All icons on left as default.

[Ramses II CP]

Short answer for all of them: Clean.

I used the '98 interface until I realized that it actually felt slower under SP2 than the XP one. Backgrounds are recently taken pictures of the kidlet. Icons are kept to a single row. I used APOD(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) pictures until I had the monkey.

[Zim]

I tend to use screenshots from TW games for the background.
As for files, I jsut sort of let it clutter with saves from hotseats and pbms, then clear them out when they fill up too much of the screen.

[Csargo]

I have my icons on the two sides of the screen so that they don't get in the way of my background

[Makanyane]

I use the Windows Classic theme. I let my desktop gradually clutter up with icons until it's about half-full, then clean it up, leaving only my essential stuff.

Something along those lines, clean desktop when its got so full I can't find anything, then clean up. Normally delete whole bunch of shortcuts to things I actually did need and then can't find again....

Looks; icons round edge when its tidy, standard XP desktop but set to pretend to be w98 look, currently using one of screenies Charge did for mod (here) as background.

[Husar]

Rather clean.

I have desktop icons disabled so there are none in front of my background, I do have the sidebar activated though which shows me some more or less useful info.
Apart from that I use AeroGlass.

[sapi]

I never have icons on my desktop; occasionally it has files I dump there before ftping for convenience, but they go pretty quickly

Game shortcuts are on a hidden dock up top, and the sidebar has download limit/weather/uptime/uploads+downloads/cpu/ram/hdd usage/gmail/notes

[TinCow]

I use windows classic theme and rely very heavily on auto-hide taskbars. I have one on each side of the screen with small icons and no text. The right side is for all gaming shortcuts, the top is for folders and various Office-suite style progams, and the left is miscellaneous programs and utilities. I also run a couple Samurize widgets to display current weather and detailed system info on my desktop. The desktop itself is mainly used as a temporary workspace. New files, documents, and shortcuts always get placed directly on it and then sorted into the proper locations on a regular basis. The only things that have permanent residence on the desktop are direct links to the various storage drives on my house file server.

[caravel]

I used the '98 interface until I realized that it actually felt slower under SP2 than the XP one.

Enabling the classic look (or the "Win2k look") will not increase/decrease performance. The only way to increase GUI performance is to disable all of the animation effects and also disable the themes service altogether.

[Yawning Angel]

How do you keep your desktop?

I spy an EvE poster on there, slightly squashed version of Iron Tide if I'm not mistaken

Desktop depends whether work, home or laptop. Home is very clean, only a recycle bin. Laptop is mostly clean with a couple of icons and occasionally some files on their way to somewhere else that haven't quite made it yet. Work is the most cluttered, although I still try to keep things around the edge and not more than one row deep.