did you put a lot of icon on your desktop screen.

I have 15 desktop icons, which is one and a half columns. I do not think that that is very many. I hate having a messy desktop. I need to organise it though, because a few of them do not need to be there, such as notepad documents. I have them there to remind me to do stuff, but I suppose they could go in my "My Documents" folder.

As far as "short cut" icons go on the screen of the computer, I have 4... "Hard Drive (my computer), E-Mails (outlook express6), firefox, & trash"... Everything else I access it from "start" menu... I find it easier this way so I don't have whole bunch of junk floating around my screen... If I'm not mistaken, it takes up memories to have many icons on your screen anyways...

I have hard;y nothing on my desktop screen. It drives me crazy when there are too many things or you can't see it. It can make your computer run slower also because documents and applications are supposed to be in their proper folders and not on the desktop - though if they are all shortcuts it would not matter as much.

I don't like many shotcut icons showed on my computer screen,I just put some icons that I use frequently so that it won't blur my eyes,and I can get a clean and neat desktop. I didn't know that too many icons on the desktop screen would make the computer running slow while it startup.When I went to my recent job,there were so many icons on the desktop,so I just deleted most of them,only left the most used ones.

I hate having icons on my desktop I think it just looks messy and I agree, I can never find programmes either! I tend to just hide all the icons on my desktop - this is also because I like to see all of my desktop background! - And if I do have icons on my desktop I try to limit it to as few as possible. The less shortcuts the better!

earlier i had many icons.it was jam packed.but now i catagorised them and put them in folders.

so many things on the desktop will definitely slow down your computer.maybe we can just create a new file and then put all the icon into it.that's a good idea for you, i guess.

hmm, no don't quite like having so many icons on the computer screen. As much as possible only put the icons that are mostly used. I really like to tidied up my computer screen, the icons are I rarely used, I just put it in the menu or in the toolbar, just to for me to see it more quickly if ever I need to used it. As of now, I only got 15 icons on my desktop.

i don't put a lot of icons on my desktop. i only put the ones taht i'm going to use the most, and leave the others alone. it makes it more easier fo me to learn the computer, and plus it doesn't block my desktop wallpaper.

I prefer to have no icons at all. I put in hide option. I'm using the objectdock as my shortcut. It's great to have it. Love it even. I want my desktop to look clean and just see the wallpaper. It slow down your computer if you add a lot that will use up your computer's memory. Try the object dock. It's not necessary for apple computers only.

I dont put a lot of icon on the screen.I only put some that frequent used.

I don't put icons on my desktop screens. Usually when I have to install an application, I don't say yes to the part that asks me if I'd want to have a desktop shortcut created. Aside from making your computer boot up slower, it makes me feel that my screen is so cluttered. Also, I don't use these shortcuts anyway. I prefer to load the application using the 'Run' command, or by selecting it from the Start menu.

Hehehehe... you should see my desktop! It's full of icons on every 3 computers I have in home. Most of them are just study files, not shortcuts. I think I should move them somewhere else, but I don't have time for this everytime I think about it. Cheers and happy myloting.

My desktop is as clean as the clear sky. And by the way, I do not use Windows, I use ubuntu.By default, there is nothing on the desktop. I like it.

Usually I hate to have the desktop messy and covered with shortcuts , however the shortcuts started slowly to spread all over the desktop . One day Windows prompted me to remove the unused shortcuts , I usually ignore the prompt but that day I let it remove some of the shortcuts ( it turns out the removed shortcuts are put together in a folder that is still on the desktop ) anyway I turned off the computer and when I turned it on next time I noticed it took almost half the time it used to take before to load Windows . I never thought the number of shortcuts on the desktop would affect how fast the whole system starts up but there it was .

I have 15 icons on my desktop screen. They do affect how fast your computer runs but only, in my case, so minimally I do not even notice any improvement if I remove them.

Hi mulau2u! Yes, putting a lot of icons on your desktop can slow down the startup of your computer. I experienced it with my brother's PC. He has a lot, as in a lot on his desktop that's why it takes about 10-20 minutes for it to finish startup. As for me, I only have 2 folders on my desktop. The rest of my apps and my browser are on my dock. That's what's nice about Mac. So, I only wait for like 2 minutes and it's good to go.

Hi there mulau2u! I put a lot of icon on my desktop, almost the whole screen. Some is useful and some do not. Because I download files to my desktop, and sometime forget to delete.:)

Cyber cafe shops using a lot of icons on their desktops obviously not organized.Personal users could be understandable being a single user as he/she is.It has nothing to do with the taste and standard but the familiarity in usage.Using a PC with a lot of unfamiliar icon means complication and lots of "hide-and-seek" sortie in it.I used to be so unorganized myself but having this cyber cafe biz sort of taught me to categorize my icons and show only actively used ones in the desktop.

Putting damn lots of folders/files/icons on desktop is a serious nono from me. That makes me dizzy/disoriented whenever I turned on my computer. I tried to minimize the icons on my desktop (only my computer and recycle bin!) which makes it look cooler and neater.