Keep a Clean Desktop
Written by Alan Tuesday, 15 December 2009 08:00
If you’re like me you don’t want anything covering up that nice photo you have set for your wallpaper. I like to keep my desktop completely clean – none of the “clutter” that Windows puts there by default. But of course I still want easy access to all of my programs. So here is what I do whenever I set up a new PC.
1. We’ll start by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing View and then un-checking Show desktop icons.
2. Don’t be alarmed that all of your desktop icons are now gone because now we’re going to make them reappear in a cleaner spot. Right click on an empty area of the bar on the bottom of your screen the choose Toolbars and then click Desktop.
3. You will now see a lick to all of your desktop icons on the bar. Hover your mouse over it and you will have access to all of those items which once cluttered your desktop.
4. The final step is to hide this bottom bar so that it only appears when your mouse pointer moves to the bottom of the screen. To do this once again right click on this bar and this time choose Properties. Now, on the Taskbar tab, check the box for Auto-hide the taskbar. And, that’s it. You now have perfectly clean, but just as useful, desktop.
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