27th July 2001

I thoroughly enjoy a clean desktop. No clutter, no dust bunnies in the corners, and no annoying AOL icons glaring at me. In fact, I like to rid myself of ALL icons I don't actually use on a regular basis. Before leaving work the other day, I stopped to say good- bye to Mark Miremont (the guy who books guests for our show). I noticed his VERY clean desktop. He had done something to it that I had never seen before! Try this on for size: drag your desktop icons to the very top of the display so that each picture is above the viewable area... leaving only the TEXT part visible. Grab the icon by the text when you do this so you can completely hide the image. For things like My Computer and folders, you may have to give it a couple of tries because if you normally drag an icon to an edge of the screen, you'll end up with a toolbar for that item. I suppose that's a bonus if you like that look, so consider that two tips for the price of one! Now I have only text blurbs along the top edge of my display -- and no hint of wallpaper-concealing icons.