hahaha!

I like this poll!

My desktop is a running joke in my house.   Its not cluttered with program icons as such... they are well organised.   Its just that they get lost in with all the jpeg, pdf, doc, xls, mpg etc etc etc files that are on there.

Its only cos I use my desktop as exactly that... a desktop.   so I save to desktop... any ongoing projects are saved to desktop...    

Problem is I don't do my filing as often as I should! (so much for the paperless office being a more efficient streamlined world... tis exactly the same only vertical for me).

I also have the Post It post it note program... so I often have a few of them on there too (notes with titles like "Stuff I want", "Stuff I need", "To Do" !

My wallpaper pic is centred on a blue background.  It was Kurt Cobain for ages... but I have my Petville Character Killa on there at the moment! 

This is not factual. But it is how I imagine some of Lori's desktops have displayed.

Ditty, you sound pretty organised.
It took me ages to realise that when in doubt "save to desktop" was a safe and easy thing to do. I used to try and negotiate the maze of files and folders on my computer, but now I usually "save to desktop" and file later.

I don't know how to copy my desktop to show you but I have less than 10 icons and at the moment the desktop is a lolcat in a Monty Python style. Before that it was a picture of the Emirates Stadium in the snow but it's often a photo of my grandson.

It sounds more artistic and personal than mine Veggie.

just counted and i have 17 shortcuts/icons on my work pc

this is very similar to be wallpaper - same owls, different pose

forgot to say, that is my work pc

my home pc has the same pic as my profile pic here , which is (was) my cat barney

Mines boring mountains, I never change it and roughly 50 icons down the side.

I used to have quite a few icons on my desktop.... but now have gone minimalist

I am on a 2 week old PC laptop (hubby deals with all things Mac) and it is bare minimal...and will stay like that hopefully 

LOL... Suzy, my son deals with all things Mac too.... and seeing as we benefit from his cast-off....

I'm a disgrace - I've just counted how many icons I have. 91 of them

In defence I do use most of them. From time to time the system asks me if I want to get rid of any, but there aren't any which I think I don't need. I'm not posting a screen shot as I am an accountant working from home and some of the icons are of a confidential nature (and yes I am officially registered with the Data Protection Regisrar)

brisket, I've just sent a Lori a PM linking her to your wonderful posting - it will make her day

Mine's a wider view of my avatar here. Stonehenge. I have between 20-30 icons. I'll sometimes change my wallpaper, maybe for a day or so, but soon go back to good old Stonehenge. It feels peaceful.

Mine is a rather "pert" picture of Mrs Joe in the middle of a poppy field. A rather good photo by m'self, if I may say so,
I have folders n applications over most of her, mind.

My desktop is very bare and uncluttered.  Only one icon on it and thats the recycle bin.

LOVE the desktop photos, brisket!

I sometimes have penguins on my desktop, but usually it's my cat on one screen, and my eldest grandson on the other (I use a laptop, and hook into an additional monitor at work).

I have too many icons, but they are usually stuff I need to reference immediately, or stuff I haven't "filed" yet (or trashed).

Here's the picture I have of my grandson.

hahahaha!

I'm exactly the same!   I sometimes get quite aggressive with the unused icon cleanup bubble when it pops up... 

I do have "virtual hoarder" tendencies though...   but only cos I have been a victim of the law of sod more than once when I have uninstalled something I thought long redundant....  and had an unforeseen and urgent issue that only that program or widget could deal with.

Also... I have this thing with laptops & handbags... when I get a new one I promise myself to empty out the old one, sort it & transfer anything important over.   I have a spare room full of old laptops full of my "too necessary to delete files" & a cupboard full of handbags full of god knows what!

I have six icons and the screen is customised to show a picture of my lovely dog Gunner. I am a bit of a hoarder of stuff as well ..... but I'm a Virgo   Everything has a file

Lori your grandson is a handsome chap!

THAT's about right!!   My ex is a virgo...   He would hoard lots of old broken junk (real junk not virtual)... but reckoned because it had a home (i.e. designated storage space) it could not be useless junk!

And yes...  I did point out that he was the living proof this rule was not valid!  

Thanks!  So is the other one, but he's not old enough to sit in the kayak, yet.

He's a cutie Lori

I'm with you El Loro and Ditty on this.
I so resent that bubble popping up to ask me if I need everything (as if I don't realise what I'm doing - no comment!)
That's one of the occasions when I speak to my computer in a certain tone.


And Lori - lovely picture!

I have 24 icons and my wallpaper is Eric the Viking Vampire from Trueblood on my laptop and my former dog Sox on my deskbound PC 

my desktop looks like yours

No icons and a photo of the Amalfi coast.

Sometimes I change the piccy to a photo of a car that I want.
It's a subliminal hint for Mr. C.

I just counted and I've got 41 shortcuts  need to prune them down but hubby's got many more than me so I don't feel too bad  My wallpaper is the one you posted Brisket with the green hill, I've had others in the past but I'm sticking with this one for now.



PS you come up with great threads and Polls

Here's my desktop.  As you can see it is pretty baron.  Just a few text files in one corner, and a few gadgets in the other.

Every time I switch on my computer I smile. I have a photo of my two grandsons on the day my youngest grandson was born (Christmas day two years ago). My oldest grandson (then aged six) is cuddling his little brother who was about 13 hours old at the time. A gorgeous picture and it brings back happy memories every time I switch my computer on.

Yellow Rose,  thank you. That's very kind.

You're so welcome  and I know I won't be the only one to recognise what you greatly contribute here 

Ok I hope this works. This is the image on my desktop at the mo, it makes me smile everytime I see it.

Yes, it worked well Veggie. It's good.
I may have to re-think my desktop. I have gone for something which doesn't irritate or confuse me, and a background which makes it easier to read the icons.
But it seems many of you have customized it in a very personal way - from loved family members to the more stimulating vision from G Joe (a "pert" picture of his wife covered in folders and applications.) 

I'll give it some thought.