Bob 2010/10/15(Fri)19:45 No. 8804 ID: 5a2e05
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Sure, I'll bite. Desktop backgrounds are for bitches.

Bob 2010/10/15(Fri)20:05 No. 8806 ID: 2563d4
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>>8804
I hear you brother.

Yes I really do still use this machine occasionally, and you just so happened to time it right. It dual-boots to Windows 98! (Mmm...retrogaming.)

Lawyer Dog 2010/10/15(Fri)20:05 No. 8807 ID: 70d9eb
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My desktop is absolutely full of things.

Test Pattern 2010/10/15(Fri)20:26 No. 8808 ID: a09a03
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I think the best Vista feature is when it randomly rearranges my icons.

Cruxador 2010/10/15(Fri)22:27 No. 8814 ID: 754124
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The actual background cycles. So do the things on my desktop. I actually deleted a few things from there that I no longer need just now; that's what the gaps are.

My desktop background updates randomly once an hour, selected automatically from my horrible, horrible image collection. I daren't post it here.

Arguable Complexity 2010/10/16(Sat)01:38 No. 8823 ID: 68324c
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>Do it. Go to your desktop, clean nothing, take a screenshot, post it.
Done.

Sidebars. Sidebars, everywhere.

One day I thought that desktop shortcuts suck. There's really no way to make them look pretty on a simplistic background.

... I really should find time to backup all my shit, repartition drives and install Win7 already.

>8808
I recognize that artist :3c

>>8808
>>8823

http://vampireprincess007.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse
In case anyone's curious.

Mallo 2010/10/16(Sat)04:02 No. 8837 ID: cf68aa
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Mine is pretty simple.

Bob 2010/10/16(Sat)04:18 No. 8838 ID: a41aaf
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I should probably tidy my icons up a bit.

>>8837
>RPG Citymap Generator
Is it any good? My party is about to arrive at a city soon and I'm frustrated simply by the idea of having to draw a bunch of urban maps :<

>>8839
It's really good. I suck at map building as well and this helped out a lot.
very customizable. The only problem is there's no way to save it as a png or something so you'd need to print it.

Bob 2010/10/16(Sat)05:23 No. 8842 ID: 2563d4
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>>8807
Man, so cluttered. Why haven't you hidden the Recycle Bin yet?

The Desktop is one of the most pervasive yet unhelpful metaphors added to the WIMP model. It's nothing like a real desk because it only stores representations of documents which act as launchers---the actual desk-like behaviour of having multiple documents arranged for working on being already handled by windows---and "under everything else" is pretty much the worst place to put launchers.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/10/16(Sat)05:41 No. 8843 ID: 19dce0
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This thing gets more cluttered every time I look at it.

Bob 2010/10/16(Sat)05:54 No. 8845 ID: a17cca
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Yeah yeah, I'm a Mudy Quest man. I just wish it meshed better with my screen resolution. 1280x1024 jpg on 1920x1080 equals huge artifacts.

I'm currently in the process of backing everything up to install windows 7, but I needed to rar some of my movies into multiple files to transport them over a FAT32 drive.

thatfuckingcat!HLi.T/XeD2 2010/10/16(Sat)06:54 No. 8848 ID: c1b87c
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derpity

>>8808
>Winamp: Chris Geehan & Dan Byr...
So, now there are at least two people who listen to this soundtrack outside of the game :P

Bob 2010/10/16(Sat)08:35 No. 8857 ID: 1578e2
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this is stupid you are stupid

also i store installers and crap on the desktop before i use them and lazily until i delete them so there :V

>>8823
Yo if you like bars, you might be interested in this:
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
I think it requires Vista at minimum, though, because it builds on some capability that first came around then. So you will be hugely in luck when you do get around to switching to Win7

Though I kind of wonder
>>8823
>>8845
How do you guys have so much shit worth keeping that backing it up is a big deal?

>>8808
You can turn that off. Fuck if I know how, though.

>>8842
Hiding the recycle bin is bullshit. Just like hiding anything else.

>>8843
>all of the touhou

Typo !TEEDashxDA 2010/10/16(Sat)11:16 No. 8861 ID: e973f4
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Hurr.

I put this on my desktop and haven't changed it since, more out of laziness than anything else.

That big empty monitor on the right is usually covered in six to twelve various windows, so I don't put any icons there, nor do I really care what's on the background.

>>8860
>Yo if you like bars, you might be interested in this:
Thanks for the heads up, though I won't resort to extra software if I can do without.
I can be very anal-retentive about resources at times. It's the reason I "downgraded" from Vista to XP. Vista was pre-installed on my laptop and it ate 800+ MB of RAM idling.

>How do you guys have so much shit worth keeping that backing it up is a big deal?
It's not that there's a lot to back up. I could probably backup, format, install Win7, reinstall of software and move the data back within a day. Now try to remember, when was the last time you had a full day at your leisure and you didn't need any files from your system?

>>8862
You realise a bunch of that was probably precaching, right?

There's no such thing as "free" memory, only "wasted".

>>8861
What's with the huge vertical disjoint?

>>8862
>I can be very anal-retentive about resources at times
Oh, I can be the same. It tends to feel pretty pointless these days though, because my resource monitor never indicates that I'm using more than like, 70% resources, no matter what I'm doing.

>Now try to remember, when was the last time you had a full day at your leisure and you didn't need any files from your system?
Yesterday. But I have Fridays mostly off. Today would be work fine too.
>a whole day
That's got to be a lot of stuff no matter how you shake it.

>>8866
Laptop + external monitor. I have them set up so that they're roughly aligned to the physical positions of the screens in question.

>>8837
>256 colors
Why?

>>8871
>256 Colors
Seriously. What year are you in? 1992?

>>8860
Objectdock works on XP, at least when I used about a year or 2 ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectDock
I thought it was pretty decent, but it doesn't replace the taskbar so you'll have both the dock and the taskbar up at once if you don't hide the taskbar.

taskbar.

Dogmeat 2010/10/17(Sun)10:48 No. 8886 ID: 135871
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to the surprise of no one my desktop has a sergal on it

Bob 2010/10/17(Sun)12:01 No. 8888 ID: 669ef7
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Clean and simple is the way things should be.

Rurik!1OFz4scUNg 2010/10/17(Sun)13:30 No. 8889 ID: 283fa9
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God damn, I need to clean up my icons. SO UNTIDY.

Cruxador 2010/10/17(Sun)13:52 No. 8890 ID: 754124
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>>8888
>he uses a mac

Arguable Complexity 2010/10/17(Sun)14:04 No. 8895 ID: 6ad08e
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I think I like how it looks now.

>>8889
>Three instances of Firefox instead of three tabs
ಠ_ಠ

>>8895
>>Three instances of Firefox instead of three tabs
>ಠ_ಠ
You wouldn't want to see my current session then: 5 windows, approx 300 tabs between them at last count.

>>8898
Ram?

>>8895
>>8898
Um, yeah... the third instance had all the forums of this site on a tab, plus some quests in tabs. The other two probably had... 40 tabs between them.

Usually, I have multiple instances, and each one has their tabs under a different 'theme', so it's easier to find them again.

>>8895
Well, I've got two chrome windows with 40 tabs. Window 1 contains my pinned tabs, and more serious stuff, while window 2 contains stuff like 4chan and porn.

>>8909
>the third instance had all the forums of this site
>forums
This site is an imageboard. There are no forums here, at least not in the internet sense. We have boards. In the roman sense, IRC is more akin to a forum than are these boards.

>>8914
Whatever. I find the difference in terms to be pretty small in such an informal setting. But yeah, imageboards.

>>8915
Technical terms are important. The internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

>>8899
Firefox is gobbling just over 1gb, so I have another 7 to throw around. Hurray for cheap DDR2 sales.

COMMENCE RAM DICKWAVING

Bob 2010/10/18(Mon)08:20 No. 8925 ID: 672e0b
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Might as well.

Lhoryn 2010/10/18(Mon)16:59 No. 8928 ID: c2e4f9
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Unvalidated windows is the best windows

Brom 2010/10/20(Wed)18:45 No. 8961 ID: 4f6e37
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I AM SUCH A COMPUTER SCRUB

Lawyer Dog 2010/10/20(Wed)20:05 No. 8964 ID: 70d9eb
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>>8961
>>skype tts.exe
I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOU TALKING YOU TRICKED ME YOU HARLOT

My desktop got cleared a while ago I need to reorganize it at some point!

Bob 2010/10/21(Thu)04:47 No. 8967 ID: 6834bc
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Ok, sure.
...It's a bit cluttered.

Bob 2010/10/21(Thu)05:56 No. 8968 ID: 49d6d7
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In the end, I can't justify the time spent making this.

BiteQuest!!Z0Mwx3ZJZj 2010/10/21(Thu)06:01 No. 8969 ID: 383006
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I am utterly boring as far as stuff on my desktop goes.

Bob 2010/10/21(Thu)12:13 No. 8972 ID: 788856
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if there's more than this on my desktop it's too cluttered

>>8968
>penis.txt
>jews.ahk
You keep some interesting things in some boring file types.

Mutagenic 2010/10/24(Sun)08:39 No. 9132 ID: 8cbfb8
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Nice and tidy...

 

>>9132
:3c

Bob 2010/10/27(Wed)23:15 No. 9272 ID: f210e9
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BEHIND MY EYES IS RAGE ALONE

etc

>>9496
HUZAH!

>>9497
do you mean "OH YEAH"?

>>9496
>Censored name of what looks like a Win95-era "find printers" icon
wut

>>9503
Pfah. He's not the kool-aid man.

>>9504
Shitty campus printers thing.

>>9506
he says "OH YEAH" in the wii version :V

>>9550
I do realise; I was expressing a slight grognardish disapproval.

>>9550
WHAT? What OTHER BLASPHEMOUS changes did they make in the Wii version?

Bob 2010/12/08(Wed)16:01 No. 10932 ID: a9a46d
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I keep telling myself that, eventually, I'll get tired of my desktop background. But I never do.

>>9496
who is that? for real i dont know

>>10933
http://www.cavestory.org/
Go.
Download.
Play.
Unless you didn't like Super Metroid or Castlevania, in which case find a pit of glowing green acid and get someone to lower you into it slowly while jamming birdseye peppers into your eyes.

>>10933
You scare me Bob...

Bob 2010/12/15(Wed)16:50 No. 11277 ID: efa85e
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>>9496
I would love that Huzah! paper... sauce?

Anyway, another tidiness fan
g - gamez
p - programs
s - random shit, this is where I hide my desktop trash. At least 13 txt named something like "aaaaaa" or "adsasfasd" with a few links or cool quotes.

Sauce so I can photoshop Solid Snake on that and make it my wall paper?

Bob 2010/12/16(Thu)17:55 No. 11329 ID: fab4c8
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>>11328
knock yourself out...

Cisqur 2011/09/01(Thu)00:46 No. 17770 ID: fabfe4
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Sorry about the necromancy.

I just got my computer cleaned and upgraded and now I'm super-paranoid of putting ANYTHING on there which doesn't ABSOLUTELY NEED TO in order to function, hence everything goes into that storage device. I'm slowly amassing ALL my computers' data onto there, and soon my computers will only be the means of running something (rather than the means of storing it).

OVERLORD!!AwZwHkBGWx 2011/09/07(Wed)18:05 No. 17836 ID: 72b1cd
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5:4 resolution is for pros.

Winston 2011/09/08(Thu)08:33 No. 17841 ID: 0d7a83
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>>17836
>Deus Ex
>Morrowind
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

I'm sending you all my bro-love OVERLORD.
Also here's my shitty thing that is shitty.

>>17836
I agree. I just wish there were actually monitors manufactured in that resolution anymore. I mean, goddamn.

Bob 2011/09/10(Sat)23:34 No. 17880 ID: 400170
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Yo, sup.