> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
>> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
>> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>>
>> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to identify
>> each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could move all the
>> stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users Desktop' and
>> presumably then my icons would stay in proper sequence.
>>
>> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>
> OK, sorted this myself a little later thanks.
>
> If anyone else ends up here with a similar query, although you cannot
> open each Desktop separately you can move entries between them by
> first opening their respective containers, in my case:
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
> and
> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry
>

> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>
> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to identify
> each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could move all the
> stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users Desktop' and
> presumably then my icons would stay in proper sequence.
>
> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

>> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
>> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
>> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>>
>> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to identify
>> each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could move all the
>> stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users Desktop' and
>> presumably then my icons would stay in proper sequence.
>>
>> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>
>Big Al had a good response for you.  I'd just like to add that,
>"alphabetical", though it works, still may not appear to be alphabetical
>to you.  My Computer for example gets special position treatment along
>with a couple others, plus what you see in the text may not be what it's
>alphabetizing on.
>   Personally, rather than alphabetic, I like to group my icons by
>function anway.  Editors all near each other, graphics near each other,
>Microsoft progs near each other, etc..  Then I turn on the Desktop
>Toolbar on the TaskBar, move it up next to the System Tray, and turn off
>the screen icon display.  I prefer the tree display over the haphazard
>mess of icon pictures but ymmv.
>   I just prefer the tree view to the screen full of icons.  Plus it's
>always instantly available without moving/hiding/closing windows.
>
>
>HTH
>
>Twayne
>

> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
>>> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
>>> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>>>
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>>>
>>> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to identify
>>> each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could move all
>>> the stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users Desktop' and
>>> presumably then my icons would stay in proper sequence.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>>
>> Big Al had a good response for you.  I'd just like to add that,
>> "alphabetical", though it works, still may not appear to be
>> alphabetical to you.  My Computer for example gets special position
>> treatment along with a couple others, plus what you see in the text
>> may not be what it's alphabetizing on.
>>   Personally, rather than alphabetic, I like to group my icons by
>> function anway.  Editors all near each other, graphics near each
>> other, Microsoft progs near each other, etc..  Then I turn on the
>> Desktop Toolbar on the TaskBar, move it up next to the System Tray,
>> and turn off the screen icon display.  I prefer the tree display
>> over the haphazard mess of icon pictures but ymmv.
>>   I just prefer the tree view to the screen full of icons.  Plus it's
>> always instantly available without moving/hiding/closing windows.
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Twayne
>>
>
> Thanks both!
>
> Hey, that Desktop Toolbar is neat. Embarrassed to say that in all the
> many years I've been running Windows I've never used that before. On
> this 24" wide screen (1920 x 1200) there's a decent amount of space,
> so that couple of extra cm over by the systray is no big sacrifice.
> And the faster access is a real plus.
>
> Can you amplify on how to "turn off the screen icon display" please?
> Not sure I'd want to do that anyway, as I rarely have more than 3
> columns of icons on the left (currently there are 35 icons displayed),
> so there's plenty of space if I want to use it for desktop pictures or
> whatever.

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

>> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
>>>> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
>>>> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>>>>
>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>>>>
>>>> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to identify
>>>> each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could move all
>>>> the stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users Desktop' and
>>>> presumably then my icons would stay in proper sequence.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>>>
>>> Big Al had a good response for you.  I'd just like to add that,
>>> "alphabetical", though it works, still may not appear to be
>>> alphabetical to you.  My Computer for example gets special position
>>> treatment along with a couple others, plus what you see in the text
>>> may not be what it's alphabetizing on.
>>>   Personally, rather than alphabetic, I like to group my icons by
>>> function anway.  Editors all near each other, graphics near each
>>> other, Microsoft progs near each other, etc..  Then I turn on the
>>> Desktop Toolbar on the TaskBar, move it up next to the System Tray,
>>> and turn off the screen icon display.  I prefer the tree display
>>> over the haphazard mess of icon pictures but ymmv.
>>>   I just prefer the tree view to the screen full of icons.  Plus it's
>>> always instantly available without moving/hiding/closing windows.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Twayne
>>>
>>
>> Thanks both!
>>
>> Hey, that Desktop Toolbar is neat. Embarrassed to say that in all the
>> many years I've been running Windows I've never used that before. On
>> this 24" wide screen (1920 x 1200) there's a decent amount of space,
>> so that couple of extra cm over by the systray is no big sacrifice.
>> And the faster access is a real plus.
>>
>> Can you amplify on how to "turn off the screen icon display" please?
>> Not sure I'd want to do that anyway, as I rarely have more than 3
>> columns of icons on the left (currently there are 35 icons displayed),
>> so there's plenty of space if I want to use it for desktop pictures or
>> whatever.
>
>Sure; right click any unoccupied area of the desktop, highlight the
>Arrange Icons By    line, and remove the tick mark at "Show Desktop
>icons".  Put the tick mark back to redisplay the desktop icons.
>   Unless I'm installing programs or doing certain system ops, I never
>look at the desktop icons anymore so I have them turned off.  I actually
>got to this point because I wanted text entries, not icons, for program
>IDs and I find the menu options gives me basically a text menu.  It will
>not save you any measurable boot time shortening or anything like that.
>Most of my desktop when it's turned on is just folders and maybe a few
>folders within a folder.  You get folder flyouts, the whole magilla in
>the Taskbar menu.
>   If you use separate filenames, the list gets too long for the screen
>real quick so folders makes things a lot neater and smaller to display.
>   Note you can also create your own folders and drag them to the
>Taskbar too, and put them next to the Desktop.  Whatever you name the
>folder is what the new menu will have for a title.
>
>N O T E :  It's easy to mix this up with right clicking on the Taskbar,
>so you might want to make a note that it's right click on the DESKTOP,
>not the Taskbar, for 6 months or so from now when you've forgotten
>how<g>.
>
>Cheers,
>

> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to figure out why I cannot get my XP Pro desktop
>>>>> icons into alphabetic order. And I've come to realise that it's
>>>>> because there are apparently *two* 'Desktops':
>>>>>
>>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
>>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Terry\Desktop
>>>>>
>>>>> These seem to get 'merged' by XP, with no way I can see to
>>>>> identify each one separately. If I could, then presumably I could
>>>>> move all the stuff from the 'Terry Desktop' to the 'All Users
>>>>> Desktop' and presumably then my icons would stay in proper
>>>>> sequence.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone help me to achieve this please?
>>>>
>>>> Big Al had a good response for you.  I'd just like to add that,
>>>> "alphabetical", though it works, still may not appear to be
>>>> alphabetical to you.  My Computer for example gets special position
>>>> treatment along with a couple others, plus what you see in the text
>>>> may not be what it's alphabetizing on.
>>>>   Personally, rather than alphabetic, I like to group my icons by
>>>> function anway.  Editors all near each other, graphics near each
>>>> other, Microsoft progs near each other, etc..  Then I turn on the
>>>> Desktop Toolbar on the TaskBar, move it up next to the System Tray,
>>>> and turn off the screen icon display.  I prefer the tree display
>>>> over the haphazard mess of icon pictures but ymmv.
>>>>   I just prefer the tree view to the screen full of icons.  Plus
>>>> it's always instantly available without moving/hiding/closing
>>>> windows.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>> Twayne
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks both!
>>>
>>> Hey, that Desktop Toolbar is neat. Embarrassed to say that in all
>>> the many years I've been running Windows I've never used that
>>> before. On this 24" wide screen (1920 x 1200) there's a decent
>>> amount of space, so that couple of extra cm over by the systray is
>>> no big sacrifice. And the faster access is a real plus.
>>>
>>> Can you amplify on how to "turn off the screen icon display" please?
>>> Not sure I'd want to do that anyway, as I rarely have more than 3
>>> columns of icons on the left (currently there are 35 icons
>>> displayed), so there's plenty of space if I want to use it for
>>> desktop pictures or whatever.
>>
>> Sure; right click any unoccupied area of the desktop, highlight the
>> Arrange Icons By    line, and remove the tick mark at "Show Desktop
>> icons".  Put the tick mark back to redisplay the desktop icons.
>>   Unless I'm installing programs or doing certain system ops, I never
>> look at the desktop icons anymore so I have them turned off.  I
>> actually got to this point because I wanted text entries, not icons,
>> for program IDs and I find the menu options gives me basically a
>> text menu.  It will not save you any measurable boot time shortening
>> or anything like that. Most of my desktop when it's turned on is
>> just folders and maybe a few folders within a folder.  You get
>> folder flyouts, the whole magilla in the Taskbar menu.
>>   If you use separate filenames, the list gets too long for the
>> screen real quick so folders makes things a lot neater and smaller
>>   to display. Note you can also create your own folders and drag
>> them to the
>> Taskbar too, and put them next to the Desktop.  Whatever you name the
>> folder is what the new menu will have for a title.
>>
>> N O T E :  It's easy to mix this up with right clicking on the
>> Taskbar, so you might want to make a note that it's right click on
>> the DESKTOP, not the Taskbar, for 6 months or so from now when
>> you've forgotten how<g>.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> Thanks, Twayne, much appreciated.

>Twayne wrote:
>>    Personally, rather than alphabetic, I like to group my icons by
>> function anway.  Editors all near each other, graphics near each other,
>> Microsoft progs near each other, etc..  Then I turn on the Desktop
>> Toolbar on the TaskBar, move it up next to the System Tray, and turn off
>> the screen icon display.
>
>I go one step further, and create a "C:\Stuff" folder then use "New
>Toolbar" to place *that* in my startbar, right by the system tray.
>
>I now have absolute control over the menus in there, creating folders
>for each distinct group of applications, and a complete subfolder tree
>where necessary.
>
>So, I click the >> next to "Stuff", then "Documentation" then "SONY"
>then "RDR-HXD870" then "Users Guide" and I end up in the PDF for my PVR.

"Swifty" <Steve.J.Sw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:OfyOFePRJHA.3628@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> Taking the burden off Stiletto, albeit at the cost of a
>> little taskbar space.
>
> In that case, name your folder "S" rather than "Stuff". Or "T" for "Terry"
> (my friend called his dog "Deefuh" on the same principle).
> Or even "," - the narrowest legal folder name that I could find, although
> it looked decidedly odd as a toolbar.
>
> Thinking about what would look good, I decided to create a folder called "
> " but got an inexplicable error message:
>
> C:\>md " "
> There are no more files.
>
> Can anyone explain what the above error message is trying to tell me? The
> end of creating files on my C: drive?
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk

>Thinking about what would look good, I decided to create a folder called
>" " but got an inexplicable error message:
>
>C:\>md " "
>There are no more files.
>
>Can anyone explain what the above error message is trying to tell me?
>The end of creating files on my C: drive?

>Swifty <Steve.J.Sw***@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>> Taking the burden off Stiletto, albeit at the cost of a
>>> little taskbar space.
>>
>>In that case, name your folder "S" rather than "Stuff". Or "T" for
>>"Terry" (my friend called his dog "Deefuh" on the same principle).
>>Or even "," - the narrowest legal folder name that I could find,
>>although it looked decidedly odd as a toolbar.
>
>I've settled for ALL. Including the chevrons >> that's 1 cm of
>horizontal taskbar space and about 0.03% of my screen area - a
>bargain!

>
> It would never occur to me to double click on something like that, and
> after your experience, I'm never going to! Thanks for the warning.
>
> It took me an age to get everything where I wanted it on my startbar.
> Every time when I got things right, but for one item, everything
> squirmed around whenever I moved that one item. It was like my
> (futile) attempts at Rubik's cube.†
>
> The two actions I use regularly are to single click the ">>" (Normal
> usage) and right-click followed by "Open" to see the actual underlying
> folder.
>
> I'm quite averse to double-clicking anything in the startbar. I
> usually complain when system tray icons require a double-click for
> their default action (e.g. Pidgin).
>
> † After about six months spent getting my Rubik cube back in shape, I
> put it on my wall unit and vowed never again to touch it. Every time I
> passed it, I shuddered. Then one day, I invited my sister around.
> While I was in the kitchen cooking, I heard her say "What's this
> funny cube thing?". I rushed in, but too late... scrambled again.
> That's when I discovered how to dismantle them, in order to put them
> back in the right order.

> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>> Swifty <Steve.J.Sw***@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>>> Taking the burden off Stiletto, albeit at the cost of a
>>>> little taskbar space.
>>>
>>> In that case, name your folder "S" rather than "Stuff". Or "T" for
>>> "Terry" (my friend called his dog "Deefuh" on the same principle).
>>> Or even "," - the narrowest legal folder name that I could find,
>>> although it looked decidedly odd as a toolbar.
>>
>> I've settled for ALL. Including the chevrons >> that's 1 cm of
>> horizontal taskbar space and about 0.03% of my screen area - a
>> bargain!
>
> I got my taskbar screwed up a couple of times just now through
> unfamiliarity with using this new 'ALL' toolbar. Am I right that
> intuitively d-clicking it doesn't open it (like d-clicking all its
> subordinates), but instead expands it to fill the taskbar? (It was
> then very easy for me to end up with two lines of taskbar, etc!) I
> gather that to open ALL (to add new folders etc) I must r-click and
> then choose 'Open'?

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

>> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Swifty <Steve.J.Sw***@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>>>> Taking the burden off Stiletto, albeit at the cost of a
>>>>> little taskbar space.
>>>>
>>>> In that case, name your folder "S" rather than "Stuff". Or "T" for
>>>> "Terry" (my friend called his dog "Deefuh" on the same principle).
>>>> Or even "," - the narrowest legal folder name that I could find,
>>>> although it looked decidedly odd as a toolbar.
>>>
>>> I've settled for ALL. Including the chevrons >> that's 1 cm of
>>> horizontal taskbar space and about 0.03% of my screen area - a
>>> bargain!
>>
>> I got my taskbar screwed up a couple of times just now through
>> unfamiliarity with using this new 'ALL' toolbar. Am I right that
>> intuitively d-clicking it doesn't open it (like d-clicking all its
>> subordinates), but instead expands it to fill the taskbar? (It was
>> then very easy for me to end up with two lines of taskbar, etc!) I
>> gather that to open ALL (to add new folders etc) I must r-click and
>> then choose 'Open'?
>
>It can be a little confusing for the inxperienced when you start to add
>more to it.  Help has a little info on it, but basically you grab the
>left side of each object on the TaskBar and drag it up or right, or
>down, as you wish, until it's on the proper level and squished to a name
>and chevron. Be sure to unlock the taskbar of course, to do these
>things.
>    If it spread all the way across your TaskBar, it tried to expand
>inside the TaskBar, like program icons do there; you can just grab the
>left side of it and pull it right until all you have left if the name &
>chevron.
>   It is a little perplexing at first when you start adding more to it.
>Make the moves a step at a time and note how to return them to where
>they were, especially if you start to play with dragging up or down.  Up
>& Down creates the most confusion for people it seems.
>   Some of the unexpected things that can happen to you:
>--  You want all to occupy both lines but it's only on one.  You moved
>it up/down and shouldn't have.
>--  The all expand across the TaskBar because you grabbed the wrong
>handle
>--  You disconnect Quick Launch and all of a sudden it's out on the
>screen all by itself, or on a different screen edge than the TaskBar.
>Harder to do, but easier to do by mistake<g>.
>
>Also note:  You do not have to put new folders on the TaskBar, though
>I'd recommend that's the best place for them.  They can also be attached
>(docked) to some other edge of the screen and pop out when you bump that
>edge.  Most people don't get along with that though because they're used
>to bumping the edgr of the screen which fires the flyouts when they
>didn't mean to.  It takes getting used to.  A high acceleration on the
>mouse makes that even more of a problem (faster you move the mouse,
>farther cursor travels per inch, etc).
>
>They can be very handy though.  For instance, I have a set of system
>tools across the top which pop down if I touch the top edge; drive
>usage, pagefile use, ram use, things like that; on the left I have the
>Microsoft Toolbar with 4 populated bars (folders) that can be chosen to
>pop out.  One is editors, another development, one for MS, the last one
>my CADD stuff.  This works best on a large screen where you don't
>normally maximize the windows so they aren't close to the edges anyway.
>It takes some patience to get used to though.  On a 14, 15" screen I
>don't think it'd work too well; it does ask for a large screen, probably
>min 19", or two monitors.
>
>That's probably a lot more than you wanted to know, but maybe it'll help
>you with some decisions or even what not to do<g>.
>
>Cheers,
>
Twayne, Swifty:

> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Swifty <Steve.J.Sw***@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>>>>> Taking the burden off Stiletto, albeit at the cost of a
>>>>>> little taskbar space.
>>>>>
>>>>> In that case, name your folder "S" rather than "Stuff". Or "T" for
>>>>> "Terry" (my friend called his dog "Deefuh" on the same principle).
>>>>> Or even "," - the narrowest legal folder name that I could find,
>>>>> although it looked decidedly odd as a toolbar.
>>>>
>>>> I've settled for ALL. Including the chevrons >> that's 1 cm of
>>>> horizontal taskbar space and about 0.03% of my screen area - a
>>>> bargain!
>>>
>>> I got my taskbar screwed up a couple of times just now through
>>> unfamiliarity with using this new 'ALL' toolbar. Am I right that
>>> intuitively d-clicking it doesn't open it (like d-clicking all its
>>> subordinates), but instead expands it to fill the taskbar? (It was
>>> then very easy for me to end up with two lines of taskbar, etc!) I
>>> gather that to open ALL (to add new folders etc) I must r-click and
>>> then choose 'Open'?
>>
>> It can be a little confusing for the inxperienced when you start to
>> add more to it.  Help has a little info on it, but basically you
>> grab the left side of each object on the TaskBar and drag it up or
>> right, or down, as you wish, until it's on the proper level and
>> squished to a name and chevron. Be sure to unlock the taskbar of
>> course, to do these things.
>>    If it spread all the way across your TaskBar, it tried to expand
>> inside the TaskBar, like program icons do there; you can just grab
>> the left side of it and pull it right until all you have left if the
>> name & chevron.
>>   It is a little perplexing at first when you start adding more to
>> it. Make the moves a step at a time and note how to return them to
>> where they were, especially if you start to play with dragging up or
>> down.  Up & Down creates the most confusion for people it seems.
>>   Some of the unexpected things that can happen to you:
>> --  You want all to occupy both lines but it's only on one.  You
>> moved it up/down and shouldn't have.
>> --  The all expand across the TaskBar because you grabbed the wrong
>> handle
>> --  You disconnect Quick Launch and all of a sudden it's out on the
>> screen all by itself, or on a different screen edge than the TaskBar.
>> Harder to do, but easier to do by mistake<g>.
>>
>> Also note:  You do not have to put new folders on the TaskBar, though
>> I'd recommend that's the best place for them.  They can also be
>> attached (docked) to some other edge of the screen and pop out when
>> you bump that edge.  Most people don't get along with that though
>> because they're used to bumping the edgr of the screen which fires
>> the flyouts when they didn't mean to.  It takes getting used to.  A
>> high acceleration on the mouse makes that even more of a problem
>> (faster you move the mouse, farther cursor travels per inch, etc).
>>
>> They can be very handy though.  For instance, I have a set of system
>> tools across the top which pop down if I touch the top edge; drive
>> usage, pagefile use, ram use, things like that; on the left I have
>> the Microsoft Toolbar with 4 populated bars (folders) that can be
>> chosen to pop out.  One is editors, another development, one for MS,
>> the last one my CADD stuff.  This works best on a large screen where
>> you don't normally maximize the windows so they aren't close to the
>> edges anyway. It takes some patience to get used to though.  On a
>> 14, 15" screen I don't think it'd work too well; it does ask for a
>> large screen, probably min 19", or two monitors.
>>
>> That's probably a lot more than you wanted to know, but maybe it'll
>> help you with some decisions or even what not to do<g>.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> Twayne, Swifty:
>
> Thanks both, grateful for those solid follow-ups.
>
> For opening my ALL folder I just r-click 'ALL' and choose Open. Apart
> from being marginally faster than opening it via Explorer, that will
> help me get in the habit of using this ALL toolbar to the maximum!
>
> Once ALL is open I can
> - add top level subfolders (e.g. 'Movies')
> - add sub-folders to those (e.g. 'Video Editors')
> - add shortcuts to those (e.g. 'Movie Maker')
>
> A d-click to open the individual contents of ALL seems intuitive, as
> well as faster than R-click > Open.  But I suppose there's a sound
> reason why that doesn't apply to ALL itself.
>
> Of course, I now have major duplication. I can access an XP folder or
> file by several methods:
> - Explorer
> - Stiletto menus of various levels, which appear when I nudge the top
> screen edge
> - My new ALL toolbar
> - File > Open from the native application
>
> And for the time being at least I'm populating ALL with *program*
> shortcuts too. So, for example, there are entries like
> ALL > Movies > Movie SW > MovieMaker
> ALL > Graphics > Graphics SW > IrfanView
> as well as
> ALL > Movies > Movie files > FRAPS output
> ALL > Graphics > Photos > Holidays
>
> Therefore I am of course duplicating the function of the Start menu.
> That's what I've been doing for years with Stiletto and it seems to
> give me faster access to the frequently-used stuff. But it does go
> against the grain a bit to duplicate stuff.
>
> I've now locked the taskbar, although I'm not yet sure whether I'll be
> tolerant of any restrictions that will impose.
>
> I've also added the Desktop toolbar, directly to the right of ALL,
> both being to the left of my 17 tray icons. (I tried just including it
> in ALL, but that gave me a permanently open Desktop folder, which
> isn't as useful.) And for now at least I've cleared my desktop
> entirely.  If I get bored with its soothing uniform blue, I'll
> probably fire up a neat little program I've enjoyed in the past called
> AWC (Automatic Wallpaper Changer) from
> http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/