The Warring States of NPF - Show me your Desktop...NOW!! Q1 2011 Edition

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I want that badass Master Sword background.

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why some of you keep the desktop icon for Adobe reader?...

No, really, why? 99% of the time if you are going to read a PDF you are going to double click it or it will open in a browser window automatically ... it's a space waster!

This is one of the very little stupid things i nag about with Desktops

Here's my current background.
Attachment 7615

And here's my old one.
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At least your desktop isn't a huge image of your avatar.

The other half is I haven't changed it since the last time we had one of these.

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Originally Posted by Bells (Post 1102206)

i must say i always find it fascinating to pay attetion to the Icons you people have on your Desktops

And this is half the reason that I can't post mine here until I clean my desktop.

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Originally Posted by Bells (Post 1102206)

i must say i always find it fascinating to pay attention to the Icons you people have on your Desktops

My aren't you nosy. lol

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Originally Posted by Wigmund (Post 1102326)

Here's my current background.
Attachment 7615

Wigmund, I wish to have this image.

Mine (click):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2383368/scre...9-51001-sm.png

pew pew desktop customization

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Originally Posted by Ryong (Post 1102226)

Two questions, Synk:

1) That thing on the bottom of the first, where do I get it?
2) Rounded edges on windows thingy, how?

1) Rainmeter -- It's actually easy to customize once you get it, but there are lots of "skins" (they're actually just .ini files that define fonts, colors, and what gets drawn) available, too. I made mine the other night after stealing the clock and font from an existing skin.

I'll be tweaking that off and on as time goes. There are some neat setups folks have made where they blend the Rainmeter aspects into the wallpaper, but I change mine often enough that I wanted something simple that could work with most anything. I think I will extend it to be a bar that goes across the bottom or maybe turn it into a sidebar thing.

2) Rounded edges? I'm guessing you mean the taskbar in my old Windows desktop, currently seen in the Arrakis link? That's Windowblinds skinning XP, as I have never been a fan of the huge window border and titlebar sizes in XP. It's one of Stardock's own "Aero" themes.

Technically the taskbar still extends to the edge of the screen but is transparent at the edges to give that effect [i.e. if you could somehow stick something on your desktop up in that corner you'd just click the taskbar any time you tried to click it].

Viridis, what are you running there for those icon groups?

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend (Post 1102357)

My aren't you nosy. lol

Folks are just puttin' it out there for all to see, though. ;)