Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my blog on making your computing life easier. I have been dealing with and working on Computers for close to 32 years now and the one thing I have learned and noticed when working on someones system is the amount of clutter they have on their desktop. Some of this is caused by pre-determined installation and setup features provide by the computer manufacturer. but many can show up when you surf or if you accidentally save a file thinking it was going to the My Documents folder when in actuality it was save to your desktop. To combat some of this on my own system I have established folders for various items so when you look at my desktop it is relatively clutter free. You can right click in the wallpaper of the desktop and go to new folder and name the file anything but typically I will use something like desktop 2 or if it is a tool I use I might name it Doug's Utilities or just Utilities, then I drag and drop the corresponding clutter into the respective folder. If it is an Icon I do not wish to keep I simply drag it to my recycle bin and continue on to other icons. I have several users of my own system and we share a login so even though I try to maintain some resemblance of order my family has a tendency to ignore many of the items I consider clutter and then once a month I will clean up the desktop and remove any unwanted Icons and programs.