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How to organize your desktop Part 1 of 2

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Thursday July 23, 2009

We've all see people who have a

mass of icons on their Windows desktop

. Sometimes it seems like every file on their computer is right there on the desktop in a jumble of color. This need not be however. With a little planning it's easy to

organize your Windows desktop and keep it organized

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- Most users only use a few programs regularly. These are the program shortcuts that should stay on the desktop. Others should be sorted out.

- Right-click the desktop, then to Arrange Icons By and make sure Auto-Arrange Icons is not checked.

- The reason we've done this is so you can easily move your related programs and files close to each other.

- Look at the icons on your desktop and see if some are related.

- Like a number of documents, five programs that all deal with printing, seven programs that all deal with photos, and so on.

- Other icons will be "related" simply because you don't use them very often.

- Right-click on the desktop, click New, and then Folder.

- Give the folder a catch-all name like Utilities, Miscellaneous, Misc. etc.

- Now drag and drop files that meet that criteria into the proper folder.

- In our example we put all kinds of utility programs in a Utilities folder.

- By putting related files and related programs in folders together you take up much less room on your desktop.