how would you describe your desktop background/wallpaper right now?
By kayedanda
@kayedanda (1850)
Philippines
October 30, 2008 10:18am CST
i recently did an overhaul of how my computer looks. several weeks ago, the theme was girlish, so i had pink all over the place. i got bored with the overly bright colors so i decided to switch to the standard black.
it's as plain as can be (see screenshot), but i took the effort to locate black sidebar gadgets to match the theme (not all sidebar gadgets are displayed. those three are the most useful for me).
how about you? care to share/describe how your desktop looks right now? 
it's as plain as can be (see screenshot), but i took the effort to locate black sidebar gadgets to match the theme (not all sidebar gadgets are displayed. those three are the most useful for me).
how about you? care to share/describe how your desktop looks right now? 8 people like this
59 responses
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
The current wall paper that I have is an inverted color of a panda that I got from a logo of this skateboarding brand, I think its the board's logo itself. enjoi would be the brand. Then, the back ground of the image is also black. I'll try to provide an image..
For the appearance, of the desktop or color scheme, I'm using Royal Noir so that it also complements that black wall paper..
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
For me, I would also like a clear desktop without those icons, so much as I would like to appreciate some of the desktop images that I sometimes use but, I'm not the only one using the computer and others would just install some applications or store there files at the desktop so that it would be readily available for them to find.. (^_^")
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
nice. i like the basic black, not the gaudy wallpapers that most people have. although if it was me i wouldn't have so many things on my desktop 
i'm obsessive-compulsive about my desktop containing nothing, even the recycle bin. i have tune up utilities, by the way, and it handles my windows appearance (desktop, logon and bootscreen appearance). i hope i can post a screenshot of my logon and bootscreen here. i think you'd like it. it's the basic black also 
i'm obsessive-compulsive about my desktop containing nothing, even the recycle bin. i have tune up utilities, by the way, and it handles my windows appearance (desktop, logon and bootscreen appearance). i hope i can post a screenshot of my logon and bootscreen here. i think you'd like it. it's the basic black also 1 person likes this
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
oh.. i see. well, me and my husband use this computer but i forbid him to put anything on the desktop, otherwise, i'd delete it immediately he knows how OC i am with my desktop so he hasn't tried to do that
he knows how OC i am with my desktop so he hasn't tried to do that 1 person likes this
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
31 Oct 08
As best I can work out, she's Eastern European, blonde, about 5'2", with a lovely pair of cheeks and a really sultry smile. Her name is (so they say) Elena, and she's really very cute. But if you ask me again on Monday there will be a new fille du semaine to describe. Hmmm. Maybe a peek preview. Ah yes, a brunette American playmate called Nicole. My love life is never boring lol.
Lash
PS My partner has a blonde American playmate who is smoking a pipe, very phallic of her.
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@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
My desktop background is way too crowded... there are so many icons... and i think i need to clean everything... put them in the right folder... and arrange them alphabetically... i think i will do that next week... but today... i am just too plain lazy to do anywork... and i would rather mylot... since tomorrow is a holiday... and i feel like i want to go home early...
Below is a screen shot of my laptop desktop...
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
Just cleaned my desktop last night... i decided to bring the laptop at home... so that i can access the internet... and i looks quite neat right now... well... the one below the clock is a vista gadget that i downloaded from the website of J.K. Rowling... it actually updates me with the lastest news regarding the Harry Potter books or events that she will participate in... very cool indeed... i you are a Harry Potter fan...
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
wow. i was overwhelmed with the amount of stuff in your desktop i am OC when it comes to desktop neatness, so i hide even the recycle bin. but nice sidebar gadget you have there, the one below the standard clock. what is it? it looks like a clock to me, but i can't be sure.
can you tell me where you got it, please?
i am OC when it comes to desktop neatness, so i hide even the recycle bin. but nice sidebar gadget you have there, the one below the standard clock. what is it? it looks like a clock to me, but i can't be sure. can you tell me where you got it, please? 
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
30 Oct 08
Well this past Feb. for our anniversary we went to Branson, Mo. We went and visited the Hollywood Wax Museum, there was a scene from Star Trek with Capt.Kirk and Spock, so my husband got over there by them and I took a picture of them, so thats whats on my desktop right now, the picture of my husband and kirk and spock. He wasn't supposed to be in there, but we took it real quick before someone came by...lol.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
30 Oct 08
good thing nobody caught you. can you share a screenshot of it, by any chance? i would love to see that picture, since i now know the story behind it @walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
30 Oct 08
Okay, lets see if I can get it on here...
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
30 Oct 08
oops didn't work, maybe this time it will....
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@emojboy (632)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
Well I like to customize the looks on my desktop using TuneUp Utilities 2008. I love the royal theme blue which can be downloaded in www.belchfire.com. I always use this theme for my customers as default look and they love it too.
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
i use tune up utilities for managing my window's appearance too made it really easy to handle my theme, bootscreen and logon appearances. anyways, i'm checkin' out belchfire. thanks for the link!
made it really easy to handle my theme, bootscreen and logon appearances. anyways, i'm checkin' out belchfire. thanks for the link! @kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
ermm..don't you have the wrong link? i went and looked but all i see were torch products 
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
got it!i tried belchfire.net and landed on the themes that you were pertaining to 
@hildas (3031)
•
30 Oct 08
[i][/i]My current desktop is off my lovely cute, nine week old Grandson Reece. He is so adorable and when I miss him I just look at it and it makes me smile. Before he was born my desk top picture was off 'Take That' the pop group for about a year, but I am loving the Reece one. Can I add it on here?
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
30 Oct 08
i don't think you can with post count below 500. but you can add it to your profile photos lemme know if you have uploaded it, so i can take a peek. i love babies 
my daughter is five months old now, pictures of her are in my profile page 
lemme know if you have uploaded it, so i can take a peek. i love babies my daughter is five months old now, pictures of her are in my profile page 
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
31 Oct 08
I see that you have a graphic background. I too like graphics, and so I also have a graphic background...that of Windows Vista. I've attached it with this post so you can see what it looks like. My OS happens to be Windows XP but I find this Vista background quite stylish so I have decided to adopt it for use. I've not changed this PC wallpaper for several months now, and I'll probably keep it for another couple of months more before refreshing it with something else.
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@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
1 Nov 08
Thanks. Bluish-black perhaps might be more appropriate. If it's very black, then the graphic features will disappear into the background. It's the graphic, not so much the color, that I think is appealing. I am usually on the lookout for beautiful and eye-catching graphics.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
nice i would have liked it better if it was black though. not a fan of blue so much
i would have liked it better if it was black though. not a fan of blue so much 
@jstmarfz (1498)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Since I have this laptop which last August of the same, I still have the same wallpaper on it. It is flowery pink, coz I am a pink addict. My laptop is pink too. I want all to be color pink if possible..hehe. Though I am planning to change my wallpaper, do not know when.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
i love pink too before this current desktop theme, my computer was pink on all possible places but hubby said it was time to change since i have had that theme since two months ago. i actually have started a discussion of that around here, where i posted how my pink desktop looked. i'll go and look if i can find it amidst the pile of discussions i have
before this current desktop theme, my computer was pink on all possible places but hubby said it was time to change since i have had that theme since two months ago. i actually have started a discussion of that around here, where i posted how my pink desktop looked. i'll go and look if i can find it amidst the pile of discussions i have 
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Hey kayedanda! First let me ask you who is that adorable
baby in your avatar? I see it all the time and I just
have to ask who that sweet little face belongs to! Ok,
back to your question about the wallpaper! I have a lovely
scene of beautiful clear blue water and a blue sky with
clouds and a tiny little island with palm trees on it.
I think there is a sail boat too! I love to look at it
and wish that I could be there! I keep saying that I will
change it but I just don't! I love to stare at it and
pretend that I am on that little tiny island!
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
that's my baby right there there are more pictures of her in my profile. you can take a peek if you have the time anyways, that's a very soothing wallpaper you got there, based on your description. lurv!
there are more pictures of her in my profile. you can take a peek if you have the time anyways, that's a very soothing wallpaper you got there, based on your description. lurv! 
@mercuryman3a (2477)
• India
1 Nov 08
i neverf really bother about my desk top as I have s many windows open that I hardly ever see my desk top. i only keep it neat and free fromclutter so that i do not have to keep searching. i keep my files neatly tucked away in foldrs in D Drive so that i do nothave to move them if I format my C drive.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
same here besides, my drive D has way bigger space than my C
besides, my drive D has way bigger space than my C 
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
i guess its really performance over graphics quality for some. i'd go for the latter though, but thankfully, with my current pc specs, i wouldn't have to compromise any of the two
@uncertainty (22)
• Philippines
30 Oct 08
It has all icon only on the upper left corner and the wallpaper that I have is kinda psychedelic fantasy or something that would feel like dreaming after staring for it for a while. Window borders are basic though, turned display to best performance instead or best quality
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@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
31 Oct 08
My desktop is positively ghoulish. When the moon rises tonight, I expect it will turn vampirish (is that a word?). I'm not too worried though, because I belive that after today, it will turn quite turkeyandstuffingish....lol
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
i don't think those are real words but they suit your purpose just fine it's only right that your desktop is ghoulish. for you to feel the spirit (pun intended ) of all soul's day. haha!
@radcliffe (57)
• India
31 Oct 08
my desktop looks ugly.so please give some more good sites to download the wallpapers.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
sleek if i liked red, i would have craved for that look. does it come in pink or black maybe? anyways, cool desktop.
if i liked red, i would have craved for that look. does it come in pink or black maybe? anyways, cool desktop. 
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
30 Oct 08
my laptop wallpaper at the moment is my picture of me and my hubby that we took when we went to the tulip farm festival about 2 months ago... it is a very beautiful picture as the weather is really nice and sunny and we are surrounded by various colours of the tulips... take care and have a nice day...
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
just describing it made me want to see it. can you attach a screenshot here, please?
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
the wallpaper of my desktop are always picture of my children. i change it everytime there is a cute picture os them. now that we have a baby in the house the new photos of the baby is always at the one on the desktop as background. it is nice to watch the developement and grwoth of the child as it gets bigger and bigger everyday. now that he knows how to smile in is more cute to look at his picture.
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
i wish you could post a screenshot here i used to put pictures of my baby as my wallpaper though. but now that i work from home, i do not do it anymore because all i have to do is turn my head a few inches and i will see her beautiful face already, whether staring back at me or peacefully sleeping
i used to put pictures of my baby as my wallpaper though. but now that i work from home, i do not do it anymore because all i have to do is turn my head a few inches and i will see her beautiful face already, whether staring back at me or peacefully sleeping 
@kenchiprincess (5296)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
childish is the word that would best describe my desktop wallpaper. it has winnie the pooh and tiger on it... i think it looks fun and cute especially if i feel gloomy. it makes me smile. [b][/b]
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
1 Nov 08
there are times in a month that i would do that too (have a childish theme) in order to lighten up my mood. but the bright colors sometimes get to me too much that i switch back to the standard black
@mapi26 (549)
• Philippines
30 Oct 08
i'm in the office right now so my desktop is the company values. although my computer right now has a plain blue background with a mettallic part on the left side which resembles water (more of a calm water then you threw a stone -- the effect of that is how my desktop wallpaper is).
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
9 Jul 09
if i am not into anything flashy, i usually just settle for a background that has water in it (i.e. the beach, a lake or whatever). it's calming for me :)
@iamcdy (1119)
• Philippines
30 Oct 08
Hello there! My wallpaper right now is a digital scrapbook layout which I did for my 7-month old niece. It was taken a week ago and I did the page a day after it was taken. She is lying in her bed with her two hands up. She is really cute. I used pink and violet as theme for the scrap page, because she is wearing pink. I put her name at the right side and put the date when the photo was taken. There are also a few embellishments at both sides of the photo. I also have my sidebar here, only reflecting the clock, calendar, notes and photo slides. I have a few shortcuts in my desktop because I don' want it to be too crowded.
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
i wish i could see a screenshot 
shortcuts in my desktop are a no-no. ever since, i didn't like anything on my desktop. i even hide the recycle bin i think you can call me OC about that. i go nuts when somebody else uses my computer and leaves desktop shortcuts behind. 
shortcuts in my desktop are a no-no. ever since, i didn't like anything on my desktop. i even hide the recycle bin i think you can call me OC about that. i go nuts when somebody else uses my computer and leaves desktop shortcuts behind. 
@ediblecottoncandie (109)
• United States
30 Oct 08
Just the basic default background.
I'm so boring :p
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
not really. some very interesting people i know just have the default background on their pcs/laptops too. it just depends on how much time and energy you are willing to waste on such a thing as desktop appearance.
