Is Your Computer Desktop a Mess?!! [Quick Solution Inside]

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Warriors,

If you're anything at all like me then your computer desktop constantly resembles a graveyard of old folders, files, notes, software programs, and desktop shortcuts.

Well, here's a very easy way to fix it.

1. Right click anywhere on your desktop and click on New > Folder.

2. Name the new folder 'Desktop 2' or whatever else you like and then press 'Enter'.

3. Drag all the files, folders, and shortcuts that are clogging up your desktop into this new folder you have just created. I tend to just leave behind the basic shortcuts to the programs I use at least once a week.

4. Now your Desktop is looking good, right? Whenever you need to access any of the clutter all you simply do is double click on the 'Desktop 2' folder and it will open up your second desktop.

A clean desktop is a productive desktop!

Enjoy!
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  • Ha! I do that. I name the folder, "Need to Clean Out"

    Guess what? It never gets cleaned out.
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    • Man oh man. I have so much crap on my computer so I am in the middle of a spring clean right now, thus why I thought of mentioning that tip to people.

      It feels so good to hit delete on so many things!
  • But that means those icons that i never use that clog up my desktop are two clicks away instead of one!.............it's kind of like shoving things under the carpet isn't it?......I might just give it a try!
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    • I use Fences, too, and love it. I definitely keep too many things on my desktop but with my ADHD, out of sight really does turn into out of mind. With Fences, I have everything rounded up and grouped by categories such as Current Projects, Websites and House & Kids.

      Tina
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  • Thanks for the tip on Fences.
  • Newsflash: Desktop is the only thing which will never get organized. You download everything to desktop, you save your temporary work to your desktop and so on. So the list fills up quickly. If you want some extra touch then go and download cubedesktop. You will be able to have 10 desktops and you can flip them with shortcut keys or single mouse click.

    Easy solution: Go to your desktop, press ctrl + A and shift + del. You will feel like you are in heaven.
  • Ha thats a cool tip. Mine is always clogged up with the likes of 'index.php' 'template.css' 'logo.jpg' etc etc lol. I clean it every couple of days
  • Fences is crashing the Windows Explorer. Windows explorer crashes as soon as I open fences.

    Any ideas to why that might be happening?
  • I've considered doing exactly this and just didn't do it yet, ha ha.

    I reorganize every month or so, on my desktop and then keep putting things in random places for days on end again, heh.

    Just do things that way, I guess.
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    • I call mine Saver.

      Then Saver 2.

      Saver 3

      And Saver ad infinitum.
  • I have my own system developed. What I do is when I create text documents, I drag them into a square and put them in the lower left corner. Any folders are on the top right corner. On my desktop, it may be a bit cluttered, but it's quite organized.
  • Desktop > Right Click > View > (Uncheck) Show desktop icons.

    What mess?
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    • LOL Love it!
    • lmao That's brilliant.

      I tend to wait until my desktop is completely filled before moving certain files and folders to a "Misc." folder. Then I let the files spread like cancer once again and consider moving them to the previously-created "Misc." folder, but I realize that there's too much crap in said folder and I don't want to mix anything up. So I create "Misc. 2" and allow this to continue.

      All these options to create new folders, compressed files, even 'briefcases' but no file cabinet!
  • HAHA this is so ironic this topic is posted at this time. I just helped some people using remote desktop.

    Before I could do anything I had to clean a desktop that looked like an utter WAR ZONE each time!

    PFD's
    exe's
    zips's
    images
    folders
    more PDF's

    Crazy PC World!
  • Just delete everything and when you need the information back just go into the Recycle Bin, select all the files you want back and right click... RESTORE... back in business!!!
  • Haha some of you guys have some funny ways of taking care of things. Love it!
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    • Another vote for 'fences'...been using it ever since someone on here posted a link to it AGES AGO....cool thing about it as well is if I start doing any screen recording...one click of my mouse (setup as a 'double click' in my mouse options) hides all the icons on my desktop!

  • lol ... thats a good one. But what if by mistake I end up deleting Desktop2 file. Oh well we can figure that out when it happens. Time to clear the desk.
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    • I should have put a disclaimer. If pain persists, please see your Doctor.

      Rule #2: Always back up everything on your PC!

      I just did a MASSIVE backup today and man it feels good!
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  • Haha, I've done this many times, as a "quick fix".

    Problem is, my desktop soon fills up again, and I ended up dragging the old desktop folder into a new one. So now I have a folder containing several other desktop folders, each containing other desktop folders.

    It's even more of a muddle than it was to begin with. Really should look at burning some stuff I rarely use to CD, and deleting it off here.

    In fact, I think I'll do it today.
  • Thanks for sharing this tip, Craig. Have never used Fences before, but I think it'd be really great for organizing shortcuts and folders by topic/area. This will save considerable time whenever you have to look for something, and it'll eliminate the clutter on the desktop which tends to make you lose focus!

    Paul
  • I never put anything on my Desktop - there are only software icons on it. I rarely use even those: for the programs I use often I placed their icons down on the Taskbar. The advantage: they are always visible and need only one click to start from there

    Documents, PDFs, downloads, images etc - always go directly where they are supposed to be. I never ever saved anything to my Desktop. Am I doing something wrong?
  • Haha, I do the same thing, except I call my folder "Stuff"
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    • haha and mine is called "Junkyard"
  • I used to use "Now" to name them. But then I would have a "Now2" and "Now3". Then I started using "Today"... "Today2" etc. The other day I took everything off the desktop and in a hurry, titled it, "Clean this out Today" Ha!
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    • Another good tip, whenever you do a backup of your computer always make sure you do a quick screenshot of your desktop. This way if your computer ever gets lost, stolen, or the hard drive crashes, you will know exactly which programs you used to have on your computer/desktop.

      Trust me, it's not as easy as you think when you have to try and remember every little program you have been using.
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  • My sister has been cleaning up our desktop for me. Its been a habit for me to download everything into our desktop and now when i checked I noticed that all of my files are compressed into one folder,. File name is nothing fancy, its simply called 'FOLDERS'.

    Andrea
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    • My desktop is so neat and organized that it's disgusting.

      There's something to be said for being OCD.
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  • I've been doing that all the time and now I have 10 "desktops".
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    • I know the felling.
  • Mine is called "Could Be Crap" seriously.

    Having a huge monitor makes things seem a lot better
    but everything does tend to run a lot faster when it's cleaned up
    and put in another folder somewhere!
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