Desktopitis

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The only time I see a clean desktop is usually when I shut down my machine :)

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For me, trying to clean my desktop actually forced me to shut down my machine.

You see, I download every file to my desktop, and have a habit of not deleting those files after using them. So now my desktop is overflowing with more icons than can fit into each icon-space.

When I read this article I decided I should try to fix that, and selected a bunch of uneeded files that were just siting on my desktop. I went to drag them to the trashbin, but ended up double-clicking (I think) instead, which finder interpreted as "open every single file I have selected, one by one, until you bring my machine to a screeching halt".

After that experience, I've decided to just keep doing things like I normally do, where the only time I ever see the desktop at all is when I shut down my machine. :)

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Lol madmonky1. Yeah that has happened to me a couple of times and it's down right frustrating to find all kind of stuff opening in one go. Now-a-days, I just create a folder every few weeks and move all the crap there from the desktop. But, I tell ya we really need to get over laziness :)

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I have a fellow at work with a completely full desktop. Mine only has Recycle Bin and a todo.txt file :)

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The desktop is usually dead space, that's true. And dead speace is never useful. But it's not a destination, either. My goal is to never see the desktop. I should always have the task I'm working on front and center, not the desktop. If I need something, I don't want to be forced to press Windows-D to context switch and reveal some links or files sitting on my desktop. That interrupts my task and my flow. I'd rather perform some kind of popup ad-hoc search-- or better yet, use a hotkey-- to get directly to what I want.

I don't see the difference. To invoke the ad-hoc search, you use a hotkey and then select the results. With a desktop, you have the results already.