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Cleaning up your Mac desktop

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Pimp my PC

Thursday June 3, 2010

A messy desktop is the bane of pimps everywhere. Seriously, just ask Iceberg Slim or Don "Magic" Juan. They'll tell you that a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind. Lucas demonstrates the digital equivalent of stuffing all the junk on your desk into a drawer to give the illusion of cleanliness. One way requires some Terminal bashing, the other uses free software to clear the clutter.

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- Open a Terminal window

- Enter the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false

- Enter the command killall Finder

- All icons on your desktop will disappear.

- You can still find all the junk you had on the desktop though: Open a Finder window and navigate to the desktop.

- if you want to restore icons to your desktop, open a Terminal window and input the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true

- Enter the command killall Finder and your icons will return.

The easier way:

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