organizing desktop icons

[Kiffin Smith]

I have a ton of desktop icons and the only way I have figured out how
to organize them is to set up folders for different groups of icons I use
(Including website favorites) and having them automatically open up
everytime
I log in. Isnt there an easier way to organize desktop icons? Can I set
shortcuts
up on a html page and create an active desktop? Arghhh....

Any ideas would be appreciated....


Kiffin

 

[Guest]

KS, I put my "most used" icons on the bar at the bottom of the screen - the
bar that extends right from the start button. Drag those icons you use most
often onto this bar and it will create a separate short cut from the one on
the desktop. If you leave this bar visible (as opposed to collapsed), you
can bounce back and forth between programs just as you would open windows.

Then, you can delete the icons on the desktop which are redundant.

 

[Sharon F]

I have a ton of desktop icons and the only way I have figured out how
to organize them is to set up folders for different groups of icons I use
(Including website favorites) and having them automatically open up
everytime
I log in. Isnt there an easier way to organize desktop icons? Can I set
shortcuts
up on a html page and create an active desktop? Arghhh....

Any ideas would be appreciated....


Kiffin

Yes, you could compose an html file and use it for this purpose. I've never
done it but no several folks that organize/use their desktop in that
manner. Once the web page is composed and saved somewhere on your hard
drive, add it to your desktop using Display Properties> Desktop> Customize
Desktop> Web.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

KS, I put my "most used" icons on the bar at the bottom of the
screen
- the bar that extends right from the start button.

Note that the bar which has the Start button on its left (*if*
it's on the bottom of the screen; it doesn't have to be) is
called the Task Bar.

Drag those icons
you use most often onto this bar and it will create a separate
short
cut from the one on the desktop.

No, you can't drag icons onto the Task Bar. You can drag icons
onto the Quick Launch Bar. The Quick Launch Bar (if you have it
showing) *normally* sits on the Task Bar, on the left side of it.
However it's *not* the Task Bar itself. It can be moved to
another part of the Task Bar, or can even be dragged off it and
docked on another side of the screen. Dragging it off can be a
useful thing to do, since it provides room for extra Quick Launch
icons without taking up Tak Bar space.

If you leave this bar visible (as
opposed to collapsed), you can bounce back and forth between
programs
just as you would open windows.

Then, you can delete the icons on the desktop which are
redundant.

Since Kiffin says he has a "ton" of desktop icons, it's unlikely
that moving some of them to the Quick Launch Bar, even if he
moves it off the Task bar, will provide him much relief.

 

[Kiffin Smith]

Doesn't anybody have an active desktop web page or a web page where
you could have context folders for grouped icons or where
i could set up different parts of the screen for grouped icons. I don't want
it
on my start menu. Isn't that why the start menu is the start menu and the
desktop is the desktop? Why can't they engineer the desktop like they
engineered the
start menu? So then whats the purpose of the desktop? Seems illogical Mr.
Spock

 

[gls858]

Doesn't anybody have an active desktop web page or a web page where
you could have context folders for grouped icons or where
i could set up different parts of the screen for grouped icons. I don't want
it
on my start menu. Isn't that why the start menu is the start menu and the
desktop is the desktop? Why can't they engineer the desktop like they
engineered the
start menu? So then whats the purpose of the desktop? Seems illogical Mr.
Spock

Not sure exactly what you're wanting but I did a search on organize
windows desktop and got quite a few hits. Haven't tried any of the programs
but this one looked like it might be useful.

http://www.coolmenu.com/\

gls858