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| 346192 | 2005-04-18 00:29:00 | When I got my laptop the Desktop screen was uncluttered. I found a command somewhere to space out the icons but the situation has changed. Now it is hopelessly cluttered and I need to restore the earlier spacing. How ? Frankly I loathe desktop layout and would welcome a return to the old menu system like HDM or Quickmenu. Quikmenu I believe is still available but expensive. I wonder if other older past their prime has beens like me have managed to find something more logical and better than Windows Desktop. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 346193 | 2005-04-18 00:38:00 | Display Properties / Appearance / Advanced | Greg (193) | ||
| 346194 | 2005-04-18 02:41:00 | Right click on destop. Trevor:) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 346195 | 2005-04-18 03:12:00 | The best solution is to have Nothing on yr desktop but put it all on a dissapearing task bar.The main advantage is that all your icons will then be viewable on top or what ever you are working on on your desktop. Go R clk on your task bar,Check Auto hide,Keep TB on top .....,show quicklaunch,show clk if you want. You will now have a retracting TB to which you can drag all your desktop icons and they only appear when you go hard over to the side you chose to put it. I find it best on the Lh but it can go anywhere.You can expand it by "pulling" it out to take however many rows of icons you want and can have either small or large icons (depending on your eyesight. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 346196 | 2005-04-18 04:33:00 | Or use your Start- programs instead. Or put all the icons into folders on the desktop. Tons of different ways to do these things - its all personal choice. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 346197 | 2005-04-18 05:07:00 | Right click desktop > Properties > Appearance tab > Advanced > Increase the values of Icon spacing horizontal & Icon spacing vertical. Or you could have nothing on your desktop like I do, and use an alternative Application Launcher like YZ Dock (it's at IF1). I find it very functional and keeps my desktop in a nice tidy fashion (sal.neoburn.net). |
sal (67) | ||
| 346198 | 2005-04-20 06:46:00 | hey sal, that's a cool wallpaper, care to share? I use icondesk to hide the icons from my desktop, and because I'm a stubborn 2k user it doubles as a way to make icon text transparent (when I display the icons of course), just like xp does natively... |
whetu (237) | ||
| 346199 | 2005-04-21 23:06:00 | To those who took the trouble to give me advice - thank you. I got my spacing sorted out on the laptop first then I tried Object Dock which seemed to be the popular choice of those who like this type of program but I still find using toolbars, taskbars or the Windows menu system clumsy and not at all what I want. Perhaps I have been spoilt by too many years using HDM or Quikmenu. I went back to Quikmenu and found they now have a free trial copy. I installed it. Not at all like it used to be - and nothing worked. It effectively locked up my computer and left me with a blank desktop with no apparent way of accessing anything or even uninstalling the beast. I managed it eventually but be warned. Quikmenu is not what it was. Pity. So I am still looking and hoping for a menu system - and being amazed that we don't have what we had 10 - 12 years ago Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 346200 | 2005-04-22 05:38:00 | Quikmenu gave you a blank desktop. How much more "uncluttered" do you want? :) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 346201 | 2005-04-22 07:55:00 | hey sal, that's a cool wallpaper, care to share? It's a wallpaper I grabbed from here (http://www.everydayicons.jp/) and modified :/ Clouds.jpg (sal.neoburn.net) |
sal (67) | ||
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