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Post Your Desktop #70254 04/02/2001 11:29 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 GoTorankusuKu Addict GoTorankusuKu Addict Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 Spent the past couple weekends fixing up my desktop since I had nothing better to do. I would like to see other desktops for comparison. Note: Don't apply the image straight in the post, instead give a link to it. I'll go first: http://dbz.star64.com/uploads/XTCBoY2K/mydesktop.jpg http://dbz.star64.com/uploads/XTCBoY2K/startmenu.jpg [ April 02, 2001: Message edited by: GoTorankusuKu ]

Re: Post Your Desktop #70255 04/02/2001 11:58 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 221 bryan868 Member bryan868 Member Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 221 Cool, how'd you switch all your icons? This is the designed behavior.

Re: Post Your Desktop #70256 04/03/2001 12:42 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 817 Burlington, VT usr bin geek Moderator / Kingpin usr bin geek Moderator / Kingpin Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 817 Burlington, VT I'll bite. Here is mine. Its umm well functional above creative. http://www.bowlingfans.com/steve/graphics/desktop.gif A freeware program Desktop Architect allows you to easily edit all your icons including your windows system and folder icons.

Re: Post Your Desktop #70257 04/03/2001 12:48 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 565 The Netherlands | Sweet :) MorphStar Member MorphStar Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 565 The Netherlands | Sweet :) www.windowblinds.net

Re: Post Your Desktop #70258 04/03/2001 2:53 AM Joined: Feb 1999 Posts: 1,379 London, UK | Genius: 100% cal Programmer cal Programmer Joined: Feb 1999 Posts: 1,379 London, UK | Genius: 100% http://iamcal.com/pics/desktop.gif Just a thought http://www.iamcal.com

Re: Post Your Desktop #70259 04/03/2001 3:42 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,285 Northern California Stilgar Old Hand Stilgar Old Hand Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,285 Northern California ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/mmartian/downloads/desktop.jpg boring... I know. ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/mmartian/downloads/desktop_w.jpg Here's my work desktop. A little more exciting. [ April 03, 2001: Message edited by: Stilgar ]

Re: Post Your Desktop #70260 04/03/2001 5:04 AM Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK Sally Moderator / Fish Sally Moderator / Fish Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK http://members.atlasf1.com/sally/misc/desktop1.gif http://members.atlasf1.com/sally/misc/desktop2.gif

Re: Post Your Desktop #70261 04/03/2001 6:16 AM Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 81 Nowhere really. | Boink. TL Member TL Member Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 81 Nowhere really. | Boink. Simple and attractive, just how I like it . Mmmm.. Financial Times tip: for those of you who have other pepople using your computer.. Printscreen the desktop, save, and set it as the BG pic, get (or write) a program to hide your desktop icons.. and voila! Unclickable icons! [ April 03, 2001: Message edited by: TL ]

Re: Post Your Desktop #70262 04/03/2001 6:26 AM Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK Sally Moderator / Fish Sally Moderator / Fish Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK :rolleyes: and there I was thinking you had a sensible and intellectual desktop for a moment there

Re: Post Your Desktop #70263 04/03/2001 8:45 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 168 The Prohacker Member The Prohacker Member Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 168 http://www.prohacker.bizland.com/desk1.JPG

Re: Post Your Desktop #70264 04/03/2001 1:27 PM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 1,356 Istanbul, Turkey Burak Addict Burak Addict Joined: May 2000 Posts: 1,356 Istanbul, Turkey sooooooooooo simple

Re: Post Your Desktop #70265 04/03/2001 2:07 PM Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 4,625 My Room Greg Hard Member Greg Hard Member Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 4,625 My Room Hopefully windows will have more colors for XP style, but here: (BIG FILE) http://www.h-realms.com/lib/desktop.PNG

Re: Post Your Desktop #70266 04/03/2001 2:32 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Lucia Member Lucia Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... http://www.lunareb.com/users/suzanne/snap.jpg That's mine, right now anyway.. I change it every couple of weeks

Re: Post Your Desktop #70267 04/03/2001 2:47 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 48 NJ Bubble Member Bubble Member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 48 NJ here is mine at work: HERE [ April 03, 2001: Message edited by: Bubble ]

Re: Post Your Desktop #70268 04/03/2001 3:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 188 Ireland Feronide Member Feronide Member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 188 Ireland http://slamwo.hypermart.net/d-top2.jpg I will post another one later on with Winamp etc etc open, and maybe one of my MP3 folder Normally I am very neat with my desktop, but, recently I couldn't be bother anyways, any mac/linux/beos desktops?? maybe some unix ones

Re: Post Your Desktop #70269 04/03/2001 4:00 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 421 Somewhere | Sanity: None | Sex... Blaze Member Blaze Member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 421 Somewhere | Sanity: None | Sex... cal's desktop is sooo sexy

Re: Post Your Desktop #70270 04/03/2001 4:26 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Lucia Member Lucia Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Naww, too much clutter..

Re: Post Your Desktop #70271 04/03/2001 5:27 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 GoTorankusuKu Addict GoTorankusuKu Addict Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 How do you guys stand all that clutter? I like to keep my UI very neat. You guys have some BIG resolutions too

Re: Post Your Desktop #70272 04/03/2001 5:37 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 124 Morecambe, UK | Hey I can do t... Phil Member Phil Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 124 Morecambe, UK | Hey I can do t... Mines just a phenomenal collection of crap.... http://www.kill2this.co.uk/phil/dtop.jpg Signatures suck. Thats why I dont have one.

Re: Post Your Desktop #70273 04/03/2001 6:01 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College And here's mine. http://www.blizzardrealms.com/mydesktop.jpg ---Skorpion Don't put that signature in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!

Re: Post Your Desktop #70274 04/03/2001 6:14 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 221 bryan868 Member bryan868 Member Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 221 Wow that's really cool Skorpion. What font are you using in the start menu? This is the designed behavior.

Re: Post Your Desktop #70275 04/03/2001 6:33 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College It's called Sevenet 7. ---Skorpion Don't put that signature in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!

Re: Post Your Desktop #70276 04/03/2001 7:10 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Lucia Member Lucia Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... How'd you get your start menu transparent like that?

Re: Post Your Desktop #70277 04/03/2001 7:28 PM Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK Sally Moderator / Fish Sally Moderator / Fish Joined: Jan 1999 Posts: 568 Cambridge, UK ObjectDesktop maybe? btw, anyone who's a bit bored of windows, look at my dekstop pics http://www.windowblinds.com/ I love this program (watch out if you have Win98SE though, tends to suck up resources)

Re: Post Your Desktop #70278 04/03/2001 7:46 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Lucia Member Lucia Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Yeah I took a look at that today.. I was playing around.. but I didn't find anything I liked yet..

Re: Post Your Desktop #70279 04/03/2001 7:48 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,285 Northern California Stilgar Old Hand Stilgar Old Hand Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,285 Northern California http://www.windowblinds.net ... not com

Re: Post Your Desktop #70280 04/03/2001 8:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Jamin Moderator / Template Diva Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 3,594 College The start menu, ICQ, and Winamp were all made transparent by WindowFX, which you can get at www.stardock.net Start menu icons were changed with IconPackager, also from Stardock. And start button graphic and start bar graphic were changed with TClock - not exactly sure of the address for that, but I think you can get it at download.com. ---Skorpion Don't put that signature in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!

Re: Post Your Desktop #70281 04/03/2001 8:16 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Lucia Member Lucia Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 966 Closer than you think | Sanity... Nope you can't find it there, but it can be found at tucows.com

Re: Post Your Desktop #70282 04/03/2001 8:39 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 GoTorankusuKu Addict GoTorankusuKu Addict Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 You can get most of those programs from www.deskmod.com if I'm correct. I used E-Icons & 3D Color Changer to do all the changes. I am not running anything in the background on startup, all you see is just the little volume control

Re: Post Your Desktop #70283 04/03/2001 8:43 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 610 Haarlem, The Netherlands SpAwN Member SpAwN Member Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 610 Haarlem, The Netherlands http://spawnboard.hypermart.net/images/bestdesktop.jpg

Re: Post Your Desktop #70284 04/03/2001 8:45 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 GoTorankusuKu Addict GoTorankusuKu Addict Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,304 Hands down to Spawn, although you could've just hid the My Computer/Recycle Bin to give it the finishing touches

Re: Post Your Desktop #70285 04/04/2001 12:02 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky wildcat Member wildcat Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky GoTorankusuKu I must say your wallpaper is the best I have seen it is simple, yet complex nice Glad to see postin thought something might have happened to you your MB was up for about 2 days then they shut it down again

Re: Post Your Desktop #70286 04/04/2001 2:39 AM Joined: Feb 1999 Posts: 1,379 London, UK | Genius: 100% cal Programmer cal Programmer Joined: Feb 1999 Posts: 1,379 London, UK | Genius: 100% I change my wallpaper often http://iamcal.com/pics/desktop.gif Just a thought [ April 04, 2001: Message edited by: cal ] http://www.iamcal.com

Re: Post Your Desktop #70287 04/04/2001 2:54 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas Mine is relatively new, with background courtesy of Matt Jacob: https://www.ubbdev.com/templates/allensdesk.jpg (~190kb) it's a little squished because the actual screenshot was a rahter large file... I really like your desktops Skorp and GoTo... very nice... especially the icons and transparencies... - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: Post Your Desktop #70288 04/04/2001 3:17 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky wildcat Member wildcat Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky holly crap Allen you got enough applications running you must be swimming in RAM lol my computer laughs at me if I try to open up for much-less nine

Re: Post Your Desktop #70289 04/04/2001 3:30 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas Dell was offering a "double your ram" upgrade that week... win2k on a p4 1.3ghz with 512mb ram... and still $500 cheaper than my last one Though I have had >40 windows open on my last one a few times when I was readying member spotlight site reviews... it was win2k on a p2 450 with 256mb ram (dell, naturally ;)). All these are work pc's mind you, my pc at home is a true piece of junk, and why I stay at work half the night (win98, amd k6-2 166, with 64mb ram). - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: Post Your Desktop #70290 04/04/2001 3:45 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 755 Land O' Cactus Mark Badolato P.I.T.A. / Programmer Mark Badolato P.I.T.A. / Programmer Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 755 Land O' Cactus Quote quote: [somehow got edited out... My EXTREMLY boring desktop is at http://www.badolato.com/pics/desktop.jpg hmmm... quote isn't working here... That sounds like a good idea Mark. I think there are sevral Fry's in Houston, Austin, and Dallas. I need to check them out.. [ April 04, 2001: Message edited by: AllenAyres ] [ April 04, 2001: Message edited by: Mark Badolato ] "Annnnnnnndd now, opening for Iron Maiden...... WYLD STALLYNS!!!" --Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore " Logan

Re: Post Your Desktop #70291 04/04/2001 4:17 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky wildcat Member wildcat Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky lol I know how you feel with the 64mb's of ram try running photoshop on 64 it is unbaerably slow stupid Compaq's never buy one again next time Dell or Gateway well enough of my whining here is my desktop http://dbz.star64.com/uploads/Vegetta69/desktoppic.jpg

Re: Post Your Desktop #70292 04/04/2001 4:27 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky wildcat Member wildcat Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 148 Kentucky Hey Mark you run seti@home too how long does it usually take to finish one packet cause I just started about a week ago running it and the progress bar was at 100% then it started all over and didn't say that I had any complete nor did it try to connect with their server to send the info back to them just wondering

Re: Post Your Desktop #70293 04/04/2001 4:56 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 124 Morecambe, UK | Hey I can do t... Phil Member Phil Member Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 124 Morecambe, UK | Hey I can do t... Quote quote: Try running Photoshop on an AMD K6-2 400 with 32mb's...... You'd probably kiss your computer after that....... Signatures suck. Thats why I dont have one.