Show your desktop!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I enjoy doing this every once in a while (mostly 'cause I'm bored and looking for graphics ideas...)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. How do you take the snapshot?

[fameless]

3. CTRL + ALT + Print Screen

[LastKnight]

10. how do you access it after this? nt

[fameless]

25. you have to paste it somewhere

photoshop, paint, anywhere.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Many different ways

I personally use an ancient Win95/98 version of a graphics program called LView Pro. It has a Capture Desktop function. There are many capture utilities out there, a good many of them freeware. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to recommend one.

[darkstar]

2. Don't know how you did that

but wanted my avatar to spend some time near your user name.

:toast:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. That could be arranged!

;-)

[Tripper11]

6. To do a screen shot of your desktop...

hit Prt Scr (print screen) on your keyboard.
Then open your paint program and click on edit then paste...voila! Save to file and upload.

[Nomad559]

7. My Current Desktop

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Very cool. Is that Linux?

I just finished an install of Suse Pro 9 a few minutes ago, and would love to have that shell if available. Slick as s**t!

On edit: I see the Windows Recycle Bin so know it is not Linux. It's still cool!

[Nomad559]

12. XP Pro

with the Oxide-Blue theme, I don't remember where I found the theme.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Love the dolphins!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Off the Digital Blasphemy cd collection

Available on their web site at http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/

[didntvote4shrub]

18. I like a fairly clean desktop, myself.

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[didntvote4shrub]

20. What am I doing wrong????

Help meeee......

[Az]

26. Here

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I hate not having the toolbar right there,

and I don't like the "toolbar appears when I move the mouse down there" option, so that's always there.

And currently I'm working on a few photo project tings, so I have a few folders on the desktop that wouldn't normally be there, but it makes working much faster.

But I totally agree with you - a cluttered desktop is a nightmare. I'm totally into making as many folders as are necessary to make all my information coherently organized and accesible.

[pagerbear]

13. I would but

....no sex threads!

[opiate69]

14. My desktop can be seen here:

www.badman.dk/wallpapers/Supermodels/Sung_HL/sung-hi-lee_1024x768
just type .jpg at the end...
(Not Safe For Work!!!!)

[teach1st]

15. The taskbar from hell

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

21. I really hope you realize

all those icons chew up your memory and slow your machine down significantly. Hope you have a couple gigs of memory!

[teach1st]

28. I know that

I haven't noticed a slowdown from too many icons on my XP desktop, but I have a different philosophy and no cool wallpaper to look at.

I do tons of web stuff and school stuff using my computer. I've run about fifty different programs in the last 24 hours. All were accessible from my desktop, as are all my filing and backup chores. I perform so much activity when computing, that even if there is a performance hit I save so much time NOT clicking around in the start menu and explorer that any performance hit is worth it.

SCREEN: Current tasks to the left (except for current working URLs which I keep to the right), filing and backing up on the bottom, monster task bar on the right

[Mobius]

16. Mobius' desktop

http://www.angelfire.com/ar3/shagaspiel/desktop.jpg

[Mobius]

22. small version looks like this

Check out my "cool wallpapers" in sig line and be sure to go to http://www/shiftedrealityl.com for high res images. THOUSANDS, be sure to check out link section for othewr artists. Enjoy!

[Mobius]

30. Heres one from my final fantasy page I really like

More here: http://www.angelfire.com/ex2/throughthelens/shagatopicwalls.html

[Insider]

17. voila

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. YAY!!

You just made my day, Insider!

have your framed it yet?

[Az]

19. Tada

[TOhioLiberal]

23. forgive the ignorance...

but how do I upload?

[Az]

27. You need to have webspace of your own

Post the pic to your web space and then link to it here.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

29. Mine

[Mobius]

31. Wanna try something really messed up?

Take a screen shot of current desktop, make screen shot your new desktop, take another screen shot of the desktop inside the desktop, and so on and so on, until you lose too much reolution to go on. It will seriously mess with your head.

[Az]

33. Another fun trick

Pull this one on a friends computer. Take a screen shot with some windows open. Save it to disk. Replace their wallpaper with the screen shot. See how long it takes before they realize they cannot close the open windows. Extra points if they wind up rebooting.

[LastKnight]

34. haha im gonna have to pull that one on my sister nt

[Mobius]

35. Already did.

They rebooted and still didnt know what was wrong. I had to stop them when thre were gonna do a system restore. They were not completely amused.

[frylock]

38. gotta love the classics..

LOL

[jus_the_facts]

32. I love dolphins....what a great pic.....

....cool wallpaper ya got there!! :hi:


on edit.....here's what's on mine! :evilgrin:


pic courtesy of www.travisfimmel.tripod.com/

[Mobius]

36. there is a cool dolphin one at the top of this page

http://www.angelfire.com/ex2/throughthelens/shagatopicwalls.html

[jus_the_facts]

37. that one reminds me of...'So Long and Thanks for All The Fish'...

....Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy~Douglas Adams...I like it but think I'll stick with Travis in his Calvin boxers for awhile!! :D

[ConcernedCanuk]

40. Resolution is set to 800x600, but reduced size for this post

.
.
.

and notice,

Task bar is in hide-away mode.

no mess of shortcut icons on my desktop, just Recycle Bin and My Computer.

I dragged them down to my taskbar, then deleted the ones of my desktop!

[Tripper11]

41. I like a clean desktop as well.....

One of the nice things about XP is the ability to have the two "shortcut" menus where I keep my grequesntly accessed stuff.

[strategery blunder]

42. Here's mine

<http://img37.photobucket.com/albums/v115/chair094/desktop.bmp>

Wondering what's in the Bush is evil folder? Go to <http://www.bushflash.com/animation.html>

[corporatewhore]

43. Harvey and Ellwood P. Dowd (jimmy stewart)

[SoCalDem]

44. Don't be scared

[5thGenDemocrat]

45. Aw, mine's just a old (circa 1970) photo of Ann-Margret

In her bra and panties. I'm sure no one would be interested. It's about as lascivious as a JCPenney ad, but I like it.
John
Plus, I'm a complete computard. It's all I can do to post here (note you've never seen a photo or a cut-and-paste from me in over 6000 posts. Even my avatar is standard issue).

[SoCalDem]

49. OOOh.. I have a totally cool pic you will LOVE..

Feel free to use it..


Miss October 1955...(My, how Playboy has changed..We could never post a current playmate at DU)

[5thGenDemocrat]

52. She's adorable

The picture of Ann is kind of like that -- you don't really see anything naughty, but -- you know -- Ann-Margret at 28 or 30 was just glorious (to say nothing about earlier in "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Viva Las Vegas"). You always post the best photos, SoCal, and have ever since we both got here all those months ago. Thanks.
John
TRIVIA: Ann-Margret and Don Rumsfeld went to the same high school (New Trier, outside Chicago). Rock Hudson and current music diva/cutie Liz Phair went there, too.

[SoCalDem]

53. She kind of looks like a young Bette Davis

That's what caught my eye..

[Skip Intro]

46. Wow, I didn't know you could do that

or, actually, I never knew how to do that.

anyway, here's mine

[alfredo]

47. excuse the mess

Yes, that is GIMP 2.0.

And that O'Reilly without makeup.

[starroute]

48. Mine came from this site

http://www.martin-brunker.de/

It's in German, but Terragen-Galerie seems to be the computer-generated stuff. Cool-looking alien landscapes. The one I'm using currently is http://www.martin-brunker.de/hobby/terragen/sundownatpraiadonnaanna.htm

No icons -- just the picture and a scattering of sticky notes.

[NewHampster]

50. Clean. No Icons.

Just memories. Florence, waiting for the bus to Fiesole.

[Ladyhawk]

51. White Lions

I decided to make a collage of white lions this week.



Prisoner_Number_Six, could you send me that dolphin pic?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

56. Here ya go!

[Bundbuster]

54. Anal retentive - must have order

How the hell do I get rid of that unknown ~ file icon (lower right corner)? It popped up when I re-installed Internet Explorer, every time I try to "send" it elsewhere, it reappears. If I try to delete it, I get a warning. You computer builders, HELP - I can't live with this.

[SoCalDem]

55. A very small "post-it" should do the trick

:evilgrin:

[Az]

57. Right click on it

Find out what the heck it's pointing too. If for some reason it has to be there (shouldn't be) you can then point it to a real Icon that you can live with.

[Bonhomme Richard]

58. Here is mine............

It's the HMS Rose. The frigate that they used in Master and Commander. It used to be docked in Bridgeport CT before it was bought for the movie.

[LynneSin]

59. Here's my work desktop

They don't let us customize it and I edited the desktop to remove my company's logo which is usually in the middle of the screen.

Pretty plain jane huh???

[Az]

60. I fought to allow our users to change their Desktop

I am one of the sysadmins where I work and there was an attempt to lock down the desktops. I argued against it and managed to prevail. Here is my workdesktop (the one above in the earlier post is my laptop).