I have pretty much the same pic as you brisket, but have a lot less Icons..only have about 10.

I have 36 icons but change my background all the time to pictures I find ammusing on the internet..

Mine's extremely simple. I always have one icon on my desktop, the recyling bin, and anything else is temporary.

I've the same background pic Brisket, I used to change it every now and again but haven't for ages. I've too many icons, 5 columns, I should check what I can get rid of, can't remember though the difference between the ones with arrows and the ones without, it means something but can't remember what lol.

Now that's what I call minimalist Charlie  

I have quite a few icons on my desktop and pictures of scenes around Britain that came with window 7 - they change regularly without me doing anything - its great,

My work PC desktop has loads and loads and the wallpaper is a pic of my OH

No need for blushing Isadora.       I think it's sweet!

My desktop background is this

I've never changed the picture which came with my PC.

I can beat Yellow Rose's though as I have 95 icons (13 per column)

And re Yeloow Rose's query - I think the arrow on the icon means its a shortcut.

82 icons on top of a picture of pert Mrs Joe running through a field of poppies.

I have about the same amount of icons as you brisket, but my screen saver is a changing montage of autumn pictures of red trees in the sunset, falling leafs and pumpkin fields. I change my desktop with the seasons, winter will be all snowy pics

A Snow Leopard

I tracked Leopards down for my documentary that I filmed in South Africa as they are one of the most elusive animals in Africa. The Snow Leopard is even more elusive and is next on my hit list

love that pic Karma!! my pic is the same as the op's

Thanks El I remember learning that ones with arrows were either programmes or shortcuts but couldn't remember which was which, and if I deleted the wrong one would I lose the programme.

I have only 2 icons - email and firefox! i used to have LFC winning the Euopean cup as my pic then one of my photos of a beach scene - but never got round to putting one up on this relatively new laptop! Hmm... might go and find another beach scene to cheer me up in the winter!

MIne used to be messy...lots of *saved to desktop* stuff.... but my son made me tidy it up and put it all in a folder.   All my icons are arranged along the bottom.... and I usually have pics of my kids or grandkids as my desktop picture, but at the moment I've got a very restful photo of a mountain 

Depends which computer I am using.  This one is a picture of my son, the one in the kitchen has a picture of my husband sky diving.  The laptop has a picture of my dog looking like he is using the laptop and the one at my office has an AC/DC background.

Thank you Brisket - I have now set my desktop to a lovely beach scene I took back in June

On this laptop 15 icons and a pic his nibbs took of some volcanoes.
The other laptop has a few more icons and a pic of myself and his nibbs. The PC has a shite load of icons and the same pic as yours brisket, and my work pc has about 10 icons and a full moon pic. Change them very rarely.

Thanks Duchess Love Hendrix
I love white tigers, used to have this a few months ago as the background

Not on my usual comp so cannot post my desktop, but you probably guess what/who is on it

Since I've gone over to Windows 7, I have a set of various landscapes that change with every 30 seconds as I do like to change the look of my desktop.  There's about 35 icons but I rarely use quite a few of them as I prefer the start menu and the icons that can be placed on the task bar.

My desktop is the same pic as my avatar here. Sometimes I'll change it to the pic of Stonehenge that comes with Windows 7. I have 16 icons on my Desktop, but think I'll be whittling that down soon.

On the subject of desktop images, did anyone play the classic desktop prank on anyone or have it played on them at school?

I did it to someone and had it done to me. Proper cringeworthy!!!


If anyone doesn't know what it is, basically when someone is away from their computer, go online and find a site that you wouldn't want a teacher to see you on... obviously choices are limited due to schools banning certain search terms and keywords, but it can be done through email or whatever... then get it on screen, reduce the size of the browser so that it's only on the side where no icons would be on the desktop.... press 'PRINT SCREEN', save it as a jpeg, then make it the desktop background, wait for the person to come back, distract them so they dont look at their screen first... then attract the teachers attention.... watch as teacher comes over, coinciding with victim realising what's on their screen, then watch them frantically clicking the close [x] button button but nothing happening.

The prankster ends up getting done for it but it is funny seeing the victim in a total panic