Am I the only one that finds the "My Documents" folder created by Windows during the installation the most useless folder ever created? I hate how a lot of programs save there for instead of it's own installation directory, because it clutters my windows partition. It bothers me how I cannot change the default directory for those programs to some other directory. *glares at EA Games*

Doesn't bother me tremendously; I find it rather convenient to store miscellaneous bits and pieces* in the folder which can be quickly and easily accessed via the start menu. So much better than faffing about with folders all over the place.

*N.B. Miscellaneous bits and pieces add up to about 8GB

@Para:
Black background? Wow, that's ummm... dark

Edited by - The Evil Thing on 1/3/2007 7:47:25 AM

Eh, there is another nifty little program called WebShots that I used to use. You could set it up to change your background every fifteen minutes, or every day, just about any ammount of time you wanted. BEst of all it had a little calandar on the desktop that updated automaticaly. I used to use it but after I got this new comp I just haven't bothered.

And what's wrong with icons? I can't handle a desktop that hardly has anything on it, that's just too barren for me. Of course when it gets to the point of half the desktop being covered in icons, that's when even the icons are going a bit too far.

One of my pet hates is when folks using the desktop for storage and you find huge capacity folders, programs, and whole apps installed to the desktop. I used to support one guy, a graphic designer, who kept everything on his desktop, and had something like 10gb stored there. He wondered why it took his desktop so long to open up!

My current desktop.
a Lupus Lycanthromorphus I believe it's name is in Latin

interesting.

Taw, I believe I have that guy beat. Back in my incomprehensive days on my old computer, I had over 12gb stored on my desktop

I'm still rebuilding mine after a system wipe so I don't have all of my programs displayed, and this is the only wallpaper I have that can be shown on a family site.



Lets see how lowdown and lecherous we can go

**shuffles of with a new headache**

i have a map of the internet on mine. no pics, but i have discovered my computer lives in cable tv... ville. (thanks to xkcd.com)


SO SAYS TEH HAPZORZ!!!

@Loc
Double levelled taskbar? What is this heresy?

@Loc is it supposed to be a wolf? it looks like one, but it has weird proportions? Just the way it is stretched? I kinda like it.



Why does it make such a big difference when you save something on the desktop itself? Afterall, its just in one of the folders on the -in my case c drive.
Anyone care to help out an ignorant? (No I don't have anythign saved directly to my desktop or installed there.)

Looks more like a wer-wolf(sp)

it is indeed "just" one of the folders in your system drive, C:\, but it's also your primary display, therefore you are using up video memory and system RAM just to have stuff sitting on the desktop doing nothing. If you have stuff like the Windows Indexing Service and Office Fast Find running as well, plus Active Desktop items and one of the forms of desktop-based "active" virus scanning, then you're putting uncessary demands on your poor old pc that can be easily resolved by just not keeping huge amounts of stuff on the desktop. Sadly, there's not really any way to stop users doing it, except to use policy objects to prevent them altering the desktop, which is a bit harsh, i have to admit.

@sw & Fd, it is indeed a werewolf, and unfortunately yes, it was stretched, because it's originally a recangular shaped picture.