Hello Everyone.
Here are 3 good tips to help clean up clutter on you're desktop and in the "My Documents Folder."
Keeping The Shortcut's On You're Desktop In One Central Location
Here's a quick and easy way to access all of you're icons, easily, on the windows desktop, without the cluttered appearence.
Start by making a folder called "Applications & Games," or something like that.
Then Right Click The Folder and hit Properties.
Then click the tab "Customize," and click "Change Icon."
I chose the Folder with the Application Window.
Now you're complete! You can fill it with as many shortcut's as you'd like!
Make You're Start Menu Your Windows XP Pocket Knife!
Right Click the Task Bar and click Properties.
Then click "Start Menu," then "Customize."
Under "Programs," set the number to 0.
When you click you're start menu again, it will be blank except "Internet" and "E-Mail."
You have to add, or "Pin" you're shortcut's to the start menu. To do this, go into you're start menu, go under "All Programs," and Right Click one of the shortcut's you want, and press "Pin To Start Menu."
Now You're done with that, too!
Moving on....
Hate the way you have to dig through numerous folders to put a file there? Make it as simple as right clicking!
First, you have to enable the viewing of hidden files & folders. Continue reading to find out how.
Open My Computer, and click "Tools," then "Folder Options."
Press "Show hidden files and folders" and press OK.
Now go into you're windows drive, then into "Documents & Settings." Then open the folder that is named you're XP Account Name. Then double click the transparent folder called SendTo.
Now, you can add any shortcut's you want! They must be FOLDERS though.
Find the folder you want to add, in my case, I want to add the folder, 'Teh Junk' so I can send all my junk files there, on the fly!
So right click it and press "Create Shortcut."
Then, drag and drop that shortcut over to the "SendTo" folder and rename it (removing the "ShortCut To" part.
See? Then, rename it!
The end result will look like this. Now right click a file you would like to send, and once you press the location, you can delete the file from you're desktop, or the location other than where you sent it to!
Enjoy!
Here are 3 good tips to help clean up clutter on you're desktop and in the "My Documents Folder."
Keeping The Shortcut's On You're Desktop In One Central Location
Here's a quick and easy way to access all of you're icons, easily, on the windows desktop, without the cluttered appearence.
Start by making a folder called "Applications & Games," or something like that.
Then Right Click The Folder and hit Properties.
Then click the tab "Customize," and click "Change Icon."
I chose the Folder with the Application Window.
Now you're complete! You can fill it with as many shortcut's as you'd like!
Make You're Start Menu Your Windows XP Pocket Knife!
Right Click the Task Bar and click Properties.
Then click "Start Menu," then "Customize."
Under "Programs," set the number to 0.
When you click you're start menu again, it will be blank except "Internet" and "E-Mail."
You have to add, or "Pin" you're shortcut's to the start menu. To do this, go into you're start menu, go under "All Programs," and Right Click one of the shortcut's you want, and press "Pin To Start Menu."
Now You're done with that, too!
Moving on....
Hate the way you have to dig through numerous folders to put a file there? Make it as simple as right clicking!
First, you have to enable the viewing of hidden files & folders. Continue reading to find out how.
Open My Computer, and click "Tools," then "Folder Options."
Press "Show hidden files and folders" and press OK.
Now go into you're windows drive, then into "Documents & Settings." Then open the folder that is named you're XP Account Name. Then double click the transparent folder called SendTo.
Now, you can add any shortcut's you want! They must be FOLDERS though.
Find the folder you want to add, in my case, I want to add the folder, 'Teh Junk' so I can send all my junk files there, on the fly!
So right click it and press "Create Shortcut."
Then, drag and drop that shortcut over to the "SendTo" folder and rename it (removing the "ShortCut To" part.
See? Then, rename it!
The end result will look like this. Now right click a file you would like to send, and once you press the location, you can delete the file from you're desktop, or the location other than where you sent it to!
Enjoy!
