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To: beckya who wrote (14193)	10/26/2003 7:59:46 PM
From: Bruce A. Thompson	Respond to of 14778

Easy, Just right click anywhere on the desktop and then click "New" and "folder" then stuff things in the folders you create. Or you could back up about 20 posts and learn about multiple monitors and use one monitor for icons .......... BT

To: beckya who wrote (14193)	10/26/2003 9:57:24 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Anyone have software, tip sheets, etc. for organizing and reducing clutter on a Windows desktop? Sure use the Desktop Cleanup Wizard if you are running Windows XP. Right click on desktop, next click on "Properties", next click on Tab labeled "Desktop", next click on "Customize Desktop" box, next click on "Clean Desktop Now" box, you will then get the "Welcome to Desktop Cleanup Wizard" message. Clicking on "Next" will produce a list of all of your Desktop Icons and the dates each one was most recently used. Follow the on screen instructions to send little used desktop shortcuts to the "Recycled Bin" For additional information look up "Desktop Cleanup Wizard" in Windows XP "Help and Support"

To: beckya who wrote (14193)	10/27/2003 8:53:05 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

I'm a pack-rat too. My desktop fills up with icons in about a month's time. A lot of these are internet shortcuts, as I've found the easy way to save a bookmark is to right-click the page and choose "Create Shortcut", which puts the shortcut on the desktop (too bad you can't configure the OS to save to a specified folder). This is much quicker than clicking through the Favorites dialog. To clean my desktop, I save the more essential files to one or more folders on my desktop, and the rest go into my backup archive on a separate partition, according to filetype and also according to month. Thus, I have a folder each for the different file types: images(gif, bmp, etc..), htm (saved webpages and saved web shortcuts), pdf, xls, doc, txt. And each of these folders has a subfolder for each month. At the end of the year, the month folders get consolidated into a year folder. Mostly, this archive is just a trashcan (with no scheduled garbage pickup) because I really don't use much that gets put in there, but if I do, it makes visual scanning a little easier. I can also search the whole archive or any section of it using the Windows search which can be very effective, by narrowing the date, file type, etc. To transfer the desktop files to the archive, I open the desktop folder using the directory tree (open My Computer and then work down through the tree). This way I can put the open folder into "Detail View" and by clicking on the "type" header, organize the list of files by type. This makes it easy to select all files of each type and transfer them to the archive. This all takes just a few minutes. It would be a simple matter to write a batch file or other type of script or program to automate this. wily