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Your Computer Desktop: Clean or Messy?

Inspired by an article I read on Human3rror, I’ve taken a snapshot of my desktop.

(Above: my main 30″ display)

(Above: my second monitor, a 19″ display)

I am a neat freak when it comes to my desktop. I *HATE* having icons (outside of my hard drive icons) on the desktop. Every file is properly organized to the point where I don’t have to use Spotlight to find what I’m looking for. Ironically, I can’t say the same about my “real world” desktop, which is usually in a state of flux. (I’d love to be able to use Google search for finding stuff in my house.)

How about you? Are you a neat freak on the desktop? Or do you operate better with clutter? Sound off in the comments below.

-Krishna

Krishna January 15, 2010 clutter, desktop, organization

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eddieReply
January 15, 2010 at 6:48 am
CLEAN!
Ryan Dow Reply
January 15, 2010 at 7:05 am
I’m messy. Both with my desktop and with my living space.
Peter Palmiotti Reply
January 15, 2010 at 7:39 am
Neat freak, with my desktop as well as studio space! I think more people are in today’s world, but growing up I just thought I was weird!
John (Human3rror)Reply
January 15, 2010 at 8:24 am
TEEHEE! :)
John (Human3rror)Reply
January 15, 2010 at 8:24 am
wow… that is some serious clean desktopage…
Chris Reply
January 15, 2010 at 8:41 am
Definitely a neat freak. I use my desktop as a staging area for stuff I’m working on, but once I get a chance to deal with it I move it into it’s proper place. Same thing at my house. I’m a neat freak and I use my desk as the staging area.
Antoine Reply
January 15, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Can you please define the word “Neat”? :P

My desktop is a total mess… Hey, my wallpaper is a irrelevant picture that ended up there once after I hit the wrong option when right-clicking on it…
Rene van Belzen Reply
January 15, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I’ve removed my drive icons and my “wallpaper” is “4c4c4c”. But I do have a great login screen wallpaper (can be changed with something like TinkerTool System).
AaronReply
January 15, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Desktop is messy, gets cleaned about once a year, which is once a year more than I backup my stuff.
House is messy, but computer space isn’t, although that’s because it’s a streamlined cabinet space, and my chair is an armchair.
StrikerNZReply
January 15, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Clean, unless I’m using it for a workflow at the time, in which case i eventually remember to clean it up again..

Also, do I recognise the Moeraki boulders on your secondary monitor?
Jim Lee Jr.Reply
January 16, 2010 at 1:22 am
The only icon I have on my desktop(s) is the Photoshop Elements icon, so I can open PS by dragging and dropping the graphic(s) onto it.
All About the GoldReply
January 16, 2010 at 4:54 am
My desktop is like over half full with icons. What is the point of having such a clean desktop? I’d rather have a ton of files at my fingertips than look at some picture.
Keet Reply
January 17, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I like a little mess in my life. If I don’t see my “To Do”s, they don’t get done. I can never find my way back to interesting bits on the web, so something to receive a fast fly by gets dropped on the desk for tomorrow not the addressbook or it’s never visited again. Also certain downloaded programs for me to read the manual & test to see if they do something I need or like, are left on the desk so it gets read, & if interesting after reading, after back up, tested. When I was “neat” topside, the drive got full & the stuff didn’t get done. I regret a little blockage on my screen pictures, but computers are meant to be useful. ;)
AhitagniReply
January 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Messy….folders and files all over the desktop.
CDReply
January 18, 2010 at 6:54 pm
I try to keep it neat, but eventually files clutter up and I eventually can’t put up with and spend a little bit putting them all away only to start up again :P
MattReply
January 19, 2010 at 8:15 am
Definitely neat – I read an article on Desktop Zen a few years back and have never looked back. Nothing on my desktop at all; just an ever changing background.
Article: AJ’s Blog – Desktop Zen – Reducing Visual Clutter on your Desktop http://bit.ly/2M5DH
- krishna Reply
  January 19, 2010 at 8:19 am
  Great article, Matt. Thanks for sharing that link!
AdamReply
January 19, 2010 at 8:51 am
I don’t keep files on my Desktop, but I do keep program links. That’s what they’re there for.
BrianReply
January 19, 2010 at 3:47 pm
My desktop would probably send you screaming for your life…..total mess, but I love it that way!