OT: What's on your desktop? [Archive] - Diablo: IncGamers Forums

CrazyChihuahua

15-03-2005, 19:11

I thought it would be fun to see what everyone has on their desktop. Show everyone how cluttered/clean your monitor is :p

http://img171.exs.cx/img171/4253/desktop8qm.jpg

There is mine. As you can see, it is starting to get cluttered. It is a family computer, which is the reason for most of the games. Oh, and I like HL 2 :D

water_moon

15-03-2005, 19:13

ugg the "new" windows look *shudder*
I only have 18 things on mine, I can't stand desktop clutter.

Mordalles

15-03-2005, 19:15

well, i have a pic of masamune shirow on my desktop. a pirate girl he drew and coloured. he is brilliant!!!

Chimaira

15-03-2005, 19:22

Right now I don't really have anything, besides my Diablo II folder with lots of guides and stuff and my Diablo II mod folder with mod stuff and stuff:) I got tired of all the crap I had (new folder 1, new folder 2 etc) and moved it all to a folder on my c: drive. There used to be a lot of StarCraft documents because I'm trying to balance some defence maps I'm tinkering with, and also some new mp3 files that I really need to listen to so I can transfer them to my mp3 folder or delete if they are crap. I like to keep it clean, but it's almost like cleaning your room... hard work:(

Oh and of course a folder with shortcuts to all of my games.. I also use win98 so I have most of my other icons in my toolbar at the bottom of the screen so they don't clutter up the desktop.

Hiedran

15-03-2005, 19:32

ugg the "new" windows look *shudder*
I only have 18 things on mine, I can't stand desktop clutter.
2 things. Plus a hacked uxtheme.dll so I can use looks other than Windows defaults. :)

I get away with it by using the quicklaunch bar and the frequently used programs in the start menu.

Normal:
http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload0/desk1.jpg

Using ObjectDock:
http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload0/desk2.jpg

I have a love/hate relationship with ObjectDock. It works great for the most part, but it's that part that doesn't work great that makes me stop using it until the next revision when I go through the process all over again.

krzyhobo

15-03-2005, 19:42

http://img117.exs.cx/img117/3618/desktop8iv.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

If I weren't too lazy to clean up the assorted TXT files and such (which I use to jot down phone numbers, etc.) mine would be fairly uncluttered.

edit: Hiedran reminded me about my own uxtheme.dll hacking days and I immediately downloaded a new theme. Desktop is the same, but start menu, etc. loks much cleaner and is more compact

http://img222.exs.cx/img222/9862/desktop24xe.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Pico Dynamite

15-03-2005, 19:47

I have 1 icon on my desktop, which is the recycle bin, and I have show desktop icons turned off, so it is sparkly clean, I also have the start bar on hide, so its just a picture of my desktop picture. I use the taskbar instead of the desktop. When other people use my computer, they sometimes get confused and think my computer is locked up :)

NSXdreamer

15-03-2005, 20:06

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload3/forddesktop.jpg

Not as clean as some of yours, but not cluttered either.

Howitzer Al

15-03-2005, 21:15

That ObjectDock looks a lot like the Dock in Mac OS X!

Cattleya

15-03-2005, 21:31

That ObjectDock looks a lot like the Dock in Mac OS X!Yes, yes it does.

I got rid of all of my desktop icons. I like things nice and clean.

http://www.twilightdesert.com/d2/Desktop.jpg

Um, yeah, that is still a 2004 calendar as the desktop graphic. I really should update that...

-Cat

Shade

15-03-2005, 21:39

This (http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload8/dtop.jpg) is my desktop. Yes, I did just clean it of excess icons. :) Although, there weren't that many excess icons anyway...

Normally I'd prefer it with minimal icons - but I've kinda gotten used to D2/ATMA on the desktop, and the two grail lists, so they've planted themselves there.

Dr. Strangelove

15-03-2005, 21:44

here you go, enjoy

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload9/dsktp.JPG

peace, NSK factory, and don't forget biscuits for smut

water_moon

15-03-2005, 21:55

heres my background (http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/wallpaper/gw-wp035.html) picture, just imagine 18 little icons in front of it.

nobo

15-03-2005, 22:21

haha noone seems to play other games than d2 (except a few other games like wow)

well, thats my desktop.

http://www.bankofchina.de/gallery/pics/nobo/78351.JPG

my wallpaper is from somewhere on the internet, i got some others like that too. from time to time i have photos i took on holiday as desktop theme...

mfg nobo

CrazyChihuahua

15-03-2005, 22:28

http://www.bankofchina.de/gallery/pics/nobo/78351.JPG

my wallpaper is from somewhere on the internet, i got some others like that too.

Lol, I dont know whether to laugh at that or think it is weird. Oh wait...I just did laugh...damn.

water_moon

15-03-2005, 22:33

haha noone seems to play other games than d2 (except a few other games like wow)

I haven't had a chance to either, they're doing test weekends and the next one is next weekend. Looks good though, some of the D2 team are in on it.

corax

15-03-2005, 22:45

My desktop is fairly cluttered. I have all sorts of things on it. but i know where everything is, except when i accidently drag something and it automatically resorts itself. should probably turn that off.
My wallpaper is a WC3 one with a cool dude fellow.

Feceset

15-03-2005, 23:45

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload2/desktop.GIF

OCAU_MIKLE

16-03-2005, 00:14

I do believe that im one of the few linux users on this forum. So heres my day-2-day desktop (http://img229.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img229&image=desktopmar7qy.jpg).

- OCAU_MIKLE.

Steven Q Urkel

16-03-2005, 00:18

My desktop is one of the pics I took of my dog a few years ago.

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/5783/desktop8kq.jpg

Not too many icons, as you can see. This is the desktop for my secondary windows profile. For some reason, ATMA won't work on the primary one so if I want to play D2 I log into this one. Sometimes also I will have some .torrent files on the desktop, but I took those out for the pic.

Gohanman

16-03-2005, 01:25

I do believe that im one of the few linux users on this forum. So heres my day-2-day desktop (http://img229.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img229&image=desktopmar7qy.jpg).

Mine's (http://www.d.umn.edu/~theu0010/Screenshot.png) not as fancied up as yours.

Looks like we make up the zero desktop icon club...

Feceset

16-03-2005, 01:48

Being so used to Windows, Apple and Linux look so much better.

OCAU_MIKE's looks awesome, but just a little confusing since I don't know what does what.

killian27

16-03-2005, 02:00

http://home.comcast.net/~killian_27/desktop.JPG

Corrupted

16-03-2005, 02:29

http://img103.exs.cx/img103/4276/hrhr19cp.jpg

Malanche

16-03-2005, 02:44

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~dk554402/desktop.jpg

This is mine. I also like to have nothing on it but the recycling bin..eventually this files will be deleted or moved to "My Documents."

I used to have an all black one on my old computer cause it just made things run alittle smoother.

Typically its a picture of my girlfriend, some hot girl or pictures from my vacations. Now though I gotta celebrate the victorious Bobcats and their whooping on Florida friday.

corax

16-03-2005, 03:04

Typically its a picture of my girlfriend or some hot girl .

just hope your girlfriend never reads that. :D

well all you tidy freaks have prompted me too clean mine up, so now only about 1/3rd is covered in stuff.

Malanche

16-03-2005, 03:09

just hope your girlfriend never reads that. :D

well all you tidy freaks have prompted me too clean mine up, so now only about 1/3rd is covered in stuff.

Hehe, she doesn't live near me, so I can change it before she comes ;)

Also I can't stand having messy desktops, I have other more organized places to put things, or use my menus/quick launch to do it.

Minor_Deity

16-03-2005, 04:02

My computer.:p

*audience groans*

Thank you, thank you. I am here all night folks.
(Really I am. Stuck in front of this infernal contraption for 12hrs.)

OCAU_MIKLE

16-03-2005, 05:49

Mine's (http://www.d.umn.edu/~theu0010/Screenshot.png) not as fancied up as yours.

Looks like we make up the zero desktop icon club...

OT: You should try out a light weight WM like fluxbox, openbox, xfce4. BTW waht distro are you running ?

- OCAU_MIKLE.

DeathMaster

16-03-2005, 06:06

I like clean desktop with least backgroud pic. I used to have a full black blank desktop, but I just get lazy so ..

http://img2.uploadimages.net/show.php?img=143017Desktop.jpg

Raeff

16-03-2005, 07:26

My desktop (http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload4/MyDesktop.jpg)
I have used this wallpaper for about 1/4 of the time since it was released on diabloii.net, and have actually been recognised at lans because of it.
I also love a clean desktop, but I do have to clean it every so often as it does tend to collect stuff.

Inkypinky

16-03-2005, 07:49

You are all so organised! I always make a mess of my desktop, maybe because I feel lonely without all my files around me?

Anyway: this is my desktop. It's a picture I took a few days ago: the first flower in my garden!!

http://www.geocities.com/dutchpinky/desktop.jpg

DurfBarian

16-03-2005, 08:06

http://homepage.mac.com/durf/xanga/screen.jpg

I took that pic of the Andes on a flight heading from Santiago to Vancouver BC.

Ash Housewares

16-03-2005, 08:08

http://homepage.mac.com/durf/xanga/screen.jpg

I took that pic of the Andes on a flight heading from Santiago to Vancouver BC.

iz borign u totally shud replace wit pix of half nekkid chix or sumthin

Sledge

16-03-2005, 08:09

teh desktop (http://toppy.donkeystrut.com/bg2.JPG)
the old show your desktop thread...
ph34r heino

Rizzo

16-03-2005, 08:15

I have two desktops, one at home and one at work.

This is at home (http://i154.exs.cx/img154/6945/home6na.jpg) and the picture depicts me :D from my skiing holiday a couple of weeks ago.
My other desktop is at work (http://img57.exs.cx/img57/4870/work1vp.jpg) and depicts my girl and me, taken around a year ago in my old apartment.

-riz

seige

16-03-2005, 10:02

krzyhobo

16-03-2005, 12:31

Hiedran

16-03-2005, 13:36

That ObjectDock looks a lot like the Dock in Mac OS X!
And it's free!

http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

However, it seems to have stopped working on me a few times randomly. I guess it didn't like me switching from my laptop display to my monitor and back so much. Back to the Windows taskbar... *sigh*

Now I've hidden my desktop icons (all 2 of them) so there's not much other than a picture of my wife visible. (Though she's hidden because I thoughtlessly left a window in front of her.)

The only reason I have any icons is because I like to have Winamp hotkeyed to Ctrl-Alt-W for quick starting and it doesn't seem to work if it's not on the desktop. My guess is if I set my path to my WinAmp dir it would work, but that would require changing. :D

Gohanman

16-03-2005, 15:10

OT: You should try out a light weight WM like fluxbox, openbox, xfce4. BTW waht distro are you running ?

It's FC3 (granted, with the tell-tale hat removed from the menu, it's tougher to spot).

I have actually tried xfce and flux. I really just like gnome better. Sure, it's less effecient, but I've got resources to burn anyway.

Malanche

16-03-2005, 19:44

Objectdock is awesome so far.

I'm sure I'll go back to the normal windows poo thing eventually but this is fun for now.

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~dk554402/untitled.jpg

man i can even make it green

Rizzo

16-03-2005, 19:50

Why does your work desktop have an image filed called "STFU NOOB"? :D

Hahaha!
I have many fun things on my work pc. Heroes 3 for one :)
That pic was for you however :p :D hehe!

farting bob

16-03-2005, 19:54

Mine at the moment is this (http://www.elisha-cuthbert.com/images/Wall44_jpg.jpg)
And before it was this. (http://www.elisha-cuthbert.com/images/Wall43_jpg.jpg)
Guess my favourite actress :cool: (not for her acting skills might i add..)

Uzziah

06-04-2005, 12:58

corax

06-04-2005, 13:18

Ok so maybe I am sadistically mean, but isn't it fun to take a screenshot of someone elses desktop, make it a bitmap, place it in place of their current desktop and then place all of their icons in the recycle bin.

:uhhuh:

never thought of that before.....*now has a trick to play on his gf's sister next time hes over there* :D thank you Uzziah

Hiedran

06-04-2005, 13:18

Ok so maybe I am sadistically mean, but isn't it fun to take a screenshot of someone elses desktop, make it a bitmap, place it in place of their current desktop and then place all of their icons in the recycle bin.

:uhhuh:
Yeah, that's sadistically mean. It's not as destructive if you right click on the desktop and choose "Arrange Icons By" and uncheck "Show Desktop Icons." (Which I have done to coworkers.)

Uzziah

06-04-2005, 15:34

Yeah, that's sadistically mean. It's not as destructive if you right click on the desktop and choose "Arrange Icons By" and uncheck "Show Desktop Icons." (Which I have done to coworkers.)

oh look I have something in my recycling bin

*empty recycling bin, delete these 14 items, clicks ok*

Now to play Diablo 2

*click click click*
WTF
*click click click*
Oh @!&*, Let me see what the SPF says I should do if this happens
*clicks on internet Explorer, click click click*
WTF
*click click click*

--right clicking compared to having to rebuild all your shortcuts?

farting bob

06-04-2005, 15:39

Or if you want you can try this.
change all the targets for the desktop icons, so they all open up different programs, but look like normal. :)

water_moon

06-04-2005, 18:26

I think it'd be more fun to move and then hide icons, task bars, etc. then switch the background to look like part of their screen saver, so they think the whole thing's locked but programs are popping up when they randomly click in the wrong places. Plus you can't get in trouble for malicious behavior.

farting bob

06-04-2005, 18:41

I saw a animated gif with a error messege saying "An error has occured in your Hard drive. To resolve this clcik 'format'. to cancel, press 'exit'
And it had a countdown and everything, could have fooled many people. Put that as someone' desktop and let them poop themselves. :teeth:

Feceset

06-04-2005, 20:22

Once in my BCA class, I made an icon that had an exclamation mark and named it 'Virus,' and had it set to open Internet Explorer.

My teacher's stupid, so when I showed her, and opened it, she got pissy, and started yelling at me for putting a virus on the computer.

It's also fun to tell your teachers System32, or Explore.exe, is a virus, and they must delete it immediately.