Please don't resurrect threads.

Side note -- It's kind of sad to see all the people who no longer post.

Don't tell me you're afraid of ghosts, dearie.

Had I chosen the one other course available to me, then there'd be some one else here who'd tell me not to duplicate a thread, as there was one on this subject already existent. Not quite a win-win, it seems.

"Best start believing in devils, love-- because you're dancing with one."

Not only did you resurrect a dead thread from like half a year ago, you also neglected to actually show us your desktop. Please refrain from doing this again.

Open your eyes before pulling that foot out of your mouth. Try clicking on the elipsis (...) in my first post.

so, its more hiding your desk top than showing it ?

I simply did not know what to write in, or what words to choose, as my desktop link.

you heard of icons?
and a startbar maybe?
i vote this isnt a desktop at all

-arcon
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The "P" in the PC stands for Personal. Let the guy do anything he wants with his desktop.

how do you psot ur desktop on the web? what.. print screen, scan it in, then post it up on freepichosting? too much hassle.

1) Icons are ugly and their divergent natures detract from the synergy of a theme.
2) The little Shortcut arrow thingys are twice as worse
3) Taskbars have an auto-hide feature. Fiddle with it, lads.

In the past, I have gone so far as to create a desktop with zero icons: nothing but the background image on the screen. It's a small matter of an auto-hidden taskbar, transparent icons, removing all possible shortcuts on the desktop, and re-naming the My Computer and Recycle Bins with force hard spaces (Alt+160) with a desktop background that matches the background of the wallpaper.

For this particular desktop, I modified two things in my registry: one that eliminated the Shortcut arrows on the corner of the icons (most of those folders onscreen are shortcuts) and another alteration that allows me to re-name my Recycle Bin. All folders/icons on the desktop have been re-named with poetic yet pertinent titles: the Clockworks is the My Computer, the Minstrels is my MP3 ripper, the Scrying Glass is my DVD viewer, etc. Starcraft, Diablo, FPS's and two or three flightsims are included there as well. The Recycle Bin is now the Cask.

That, and the wallpaper image itself is a Photoshopped alteration from the original picture. If you seen the orginal (Vanity Fair mag, July 1999) you'd know what i changed.

Edited by - Jevryn Markes on 18-07-2003 22:53:19

wow, hard work, i feel the need to show my desktop now:
arcons space

-arcon
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And you expected me to see that how? Pale blue is impossible to see right next to white text. Try "Here's my desktop" or something.

Edited by - Tachyon on 18-07-2003 18:16:20

But we're fighter pilots! We should only reward those of the sharpest eyesight!

no, were geeks, raised in a blackened room, curtains drawn without sunlight for years. our eyesight is finely tuned as they dart around the screen. sure we have expert vision, but we only latch onto things if theyre coming at us with a big laser

-arcon
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