Desktop Icons

[Legobricks]

So, basically, do you use them or not? Do they make your desktop ugly or do you prefer the more convenient program access they can grant?

I currently have 61 icons that I keep permanently on my desktop, and I believe icons are there to be used, I don't see any point in a pretty picture simply sitting there.

 

[Gummy]

Yeah, they do save me an extra five seconds. I have 21 icons but I only use about 10.

 

[Tsugaru]

I do. I've got 23 at the moment. I use basically all of them all in one day. X3 My main programs.

 

[Live in Color]

46 icons, 27 of which I don't use. Keep in mind I have to share a computer. :\

 

[Gerri Shin]

I cannot remember how many icons/ folders I have, but I do use my desktop alot. though I keep it pretty clean with a program that hides things

 

[Alex]

I've got two icons in total, and hardly use any of them.

Of course, that's because I have a Mac. If we're counting the icons that I keep on my Dock, then I've got 23 icons excluding the first two mentioned above.

 

[peirateis]

Yeah, they do save me an extra five seconds.

And if you were to use them one hundred times, you would save... well, quite a bit of time. But not as much as if you used then one thousand times. That would save more time.

I do not use desktop icons. I gotta have my stuff nice n' neat. <3
Besides, it only takes me three seconds to get to anywhere from my main folder.

 

[j_]

Quick Launch == Epic Win
Desktop Icons == Epic Fail

 

[Sammi]

I only keep two icons on the desktop permanently. One is the Recycle bin. I keep it there because I like it there. The other, Microsoft Outlook, I can't remove without messing up the program, or so it says every time I try to remove it. Sometimes I might put text documents on there, usually notes of some sort. But once they've served their usefulness, I move or delete them.

I like having an icon or two on there. I can't stand it blank. But if there's only a few more, I go nuts.

Another thing that drives me nuts? The most recently used programs on the start menu. It only has Firefox and Outlook. ._.;

 

[Aizuke]

I only have 2. One is my Recycling Bin, the other is FireFox. MSN/WLM and Media player and whatever else I use are in my quick launch tab.

I dislike having a cluttered up desktop.

 

[Snivi]

I don't use theme at all - I used the quick launch bar and I hide the desktop icons.

 

[Saryka]

I only have... 6 or 7 icons on my desktop, and they're all organized at the top of my screen. I don't like the clutter of icons on my desktop and would much rather prefer using the Start Menu or the Quick Launch bar. Besides, I really want to see whatever desktop wallpaper I have, because if I can't behind clutters of icons, then there's no point in having one, for me, anyway.

 

[Zet]

I only have two, recycle bin and a folder which i throw all my stuff in. Only reason I have two is because icons ruin the prettiness on the wallpaper

 

[Bianca Paragon]

I have desktop icons disabled on my desktop machines. But on my servers, I use them due to the fact that over RDP opening the start menu takes about seven seconds XD

 

[Cherrim]

I hate desktop icons. Even if I rarely ever see my desktop, I still like to keep them off the desktop so I can see the wallpaper. If they're there, I feel it's too cluttered. I do use a Sidebar gadget to encompass all the icons. You can see it in this screenshot. I can deal with it on my desktop because it's pleasing to my eyes and it's a much nicer way to display icons. I still have my most used programs in Quick Launce (Notepad) or pinned to the Start Menu (Firefox, Photoshop, iTunes) so I rarely need to search for a program.

 

[DannyPhantom]

I have 16, the recycle bin and 2 folders which are going to be moved shortly...

 

[Aegis]

At the moment I have fourteen icons. But, that isn't really a good number to go by since I have everything I download/save to my desktop, for easy locating purposes; and if I don't keep a watch on them they'll start to accumulate.

 

[Ayano Katagiri]

I currently have 17, a couple of which I need to delete soon. I probably use only about 5 of my desktop icons at most; I prefer Quick Launch where I have 12 icons there. I do save files to my desktop sometimes when I'm too lazy to link to my folder, so that makes my number of icons accumulate.

 

[Camisado]

I have 28 permanent icons/folders on my desktop, which sit neatly in two columns down the left hand side of the screen due to my screen resolution xD And yeah, I do use them a lot! I also use the quicklaunch bar and the items pinned to the start menu.

Oh, and there's the recycle bin in the bottom right hand corner of the screen where I like it xD

 

[Geometric-sama]

I probably have about 50 very manly application/folder shortcuts; as is manly, I save files to my desktop so that I can locate them easily, and clear them off into the appropriate manly folders once I no longer need to use them, or when my desktop fills with icons.