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26 March 2007

Desktop thread! Searching the site revealed that the last one was last year, unless that in my laziness I missed one, so... [More:]

Here's mine. I admit that I cleaned it a little, but that's why there's a folder called stuff in there.
My desktop wallpaper is this photo by deborah.
posted by amro 26 March | 22:17
My mess (starring Buffy and Jackie!)
Thanks, Memo. Good thread.
posted by shane 26 March | 22:26
Here's mine. I just had to clean it off cuz it was filled with folders and movies and crap.
posted by puke & cry 26 March | 22:38
I've tended toward tile in my desktop motifs, like ≡ Click to see image ≡ and ≡ Click to see image ≡.

But I keep coming back to this illustration because it's one of my fave cartoons and clean and simple to arrange icons around the two characters, which is a nice effect.
posted by wendell 26 March | 22:42
Here's my home desktop. Usually I just have 'My Computer,' 'My Network Connections,' and 'My Documents' on the desktop. It's messy right now. :)
posted by youngergirl44 26 March | 22:44
Mine (at work) hasn't changed because I can't change it :-(
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I have no desktop at home, because my beloved computer is in storage at present :-((
posted by dg 26 March | 22:45
Current wallpaper at work is this photo by Science Girl.
posted by bmarkey 26 March | 22:47
Heh, just this morning I moved about thirty icons from the desktop to the quicklaunch, deleted a bunch of html links from the desktop and generally recovered most of the real estate. I wish you had asked this question in a day or two when my new toy arrived though. =P

Mine
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 26 March | 22:47
dg, if you wanna cheat at work, look in the right corner of your desktop bottom toolbar. I forget what the icon is called, but on my work PC the checkbox that locks you out from changing wallpaper is in there. Unless it's just company policy, not an actual IT lockout, preventing you.
posted by shane 26 March | 22:51
This was my last background and this one before that. But it's tough to beat the current one.
posted by puke & cry 26 March | 22:51
wendell, foster's (and cheese!) totally rock.
posted by shane 26 March | 22:53
Yay, a thread that finally made me clean my desktop. Here is mine.
posted by paulus andronicus 26 March | 22:57
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Quiet and dark.
posted by arse_hat 26 March | 23:12
My OCD laptop shudders at the clutter littering desktops across the globe.

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Image is a cleaned-up version (naturally!) of the latest Regina Spektor album cover.
posted by kyleg 26 March | 23:24
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here's mine. i don't remember where i go the image from...
posted by dhruva 26 March | 23:35
shane, I can actually change the desktop by opening an image in my browser and right-clicking "set as desktop background", but it reverts to the exciting blue with IP, last login etc (which seems to be a generated-on-the-fly jpg) every time I log in. I got sick of changing it every day and gave in to the corporate dullness. If I try various back-door ways to change the desktop (which I have through pure orneriness), I get a message about restrictions in effect on this computer. Our machines are fairly comprehensively locked-down and, even after hacking the administrator password, I still can't get access to it.
posted by dg 26 March | 23:47
I'm pretty sure the photo is from Norway or Finland.

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posted by cmonkey 27 March | 00:15
I got the desktop image from Mandolux.

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posted by mullacc 27 March | 00:44
At home and at work.
posted by rhapsodie 27 March | 00:47
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Surprise.
posted by viachicago 27 March | 01:20
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The last few months, it's been this photo from the Heli-Africa post. It's on the Skeleton Coast of what is now Namibia. There's just something of Ozymandias about it, or maybe Tattooine.

I've also used this Wikipedia Featured Photo of the Falkirk Wheel, just because it's so cool.

I generally dislike overly complex images and prefer something that works as, well, "background".
posted by stilicho 27 March | 02:27
thats brilliant, stilicho.
posted by dhruva 27 March | 02:34
Here's mine.
posted by chrismear 27 March | 05:36
I use Panorama. It's free!
posted by Eideteker 27 March | 07:07
Mine is from a wallpaper site that someone here linked to a few days ago:
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amro - I'm flattered! Thanks!
posted by deborah 27 March | 10:40
I generally can't see my desktop so it's a bit of a dumping ground and I pick images that I think look good while my machine is locked.

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posted by Mitheral 27 March | 10:41
If you don't like clutter, then prepare to suffer.
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posted by seanyboy 27 March | 11:11
Eponysterical!

How do you get a snapshot of your desktop image? No clue.
posted by Miko 27 March | 11:14
Under windows minimize all your windows and then press your Print Screen key. That'll copy the current screen to the clipboard which you can paste into the photo editor of your choice.

If you have photoshop it has the ability to create a new canvas the size of the current clipboard contents which is really handy.

Seanyboy that system tray notification area is scary.
posted by Mitheral 27 March | 12:13
How did I miss this thread? I'm still using a wallpaper that taz designed and posted a looooong time ago, because I love it so much.

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posted by gaspode 27 March | 12:20
I wish I could remember where I found the backgroun image ...

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posted by the great big mulp 27 March | 12:36
Got this from the recent wallpaper thread. I change the desktop every few weeks, according to season, hopes, and mood. ≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by Miko 27 March | 22:48
A post for 3 question (and/or 3 answer) comments . . || supreme commander is very addictive

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