How many do you have?

landbeforetimelover · **on:** May 14, 2007, 06:52:27 AM

It would probably take me all day to manually count all of my desktop icons. I did an auto count and almost crapped my pants. Over 4000! They didn't all fit on there of course. Most of them were overflowing off the screen!

KingdomKey23 · **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2007, 11:38:27 AM

It's over FOUR THOUSAND!!! XD Sorry, always wanted to do that. Wow, that many, huh? I don't even have that many. I'm probably just about 1/4, just about. You sure got a lot of programs, man. I don't think my comp can even hold that many desktop icons.

Petrie. · **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2007, 03:31:00 PM

1/12 probably...only the few things I use all the time:

Windows Explorer
Opera Internet Browser
Firefox Portable Browser
Recycle Bin
foobar2000
VLC Media Player
Pidgin IM

This way you can actually see the desktop picture.

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Lain_EX · **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2007, 06:28:03 PM

Well, I don't have too many icons as you do, landbeforetimelover, but, man! I'm really impressed by the number of icons you have! I don't even have the 128th part of your icons you have in only one desktop! This has to be a world record!

DarkHououmon · **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2007, 06:52:59 PM

I've got 73 icons on my desktop.

action9000 · **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2007, 09:12:53 PM

I have 103 icons, which is about 1/3 of my 1680 x 1050 resolution desktop.

Honestly, 4000? That must be over multiple computers and multiple monitors/desktops. That's not even practical on less than a few computers...is it?

Unless you are counting folders of icons on your desktop, in which case I have well over 200 total icons.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2007, 11:10:58 PM

This is on the computer I have had for around 7 years. I just keep upgradingthe dumb thing. Every sequare inch pf the desktop was used up when I did an auto arramge. EVery time I would delete some useless icons, more would appear. I used the explore command and looled at the desktop. At the botton of the window, It sais something like 4,859 objects.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #7 on:** May 15, 2007, 10:01:27 AM

Not many icons really

Petrie. · **Reply #8 on:** May 15, 2007, 02:02:16 PM

Why do you need so many icons on the desktop anyway? :huh: I guess I never understood why some make it so...I don't know....disorganized, if that's the right word.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #9 on:** May 15, 2007, 02:18:02 PM

Actually the computer was set up so when you saved anything, it would save it to the desktop. I don't know how this happened. I think it was a harmless trojan horse that was messing around with the file orientation of the computer. When I finally got around to removing it, the auto save to desktop feature was disabled.

Petrie. · **Reply #10 on:** May 15, 2007, 06:29:20 PM

Just tell Windows where you want to save the file...every time. Yeah its tedious for the OS to ask where you want the file to go rather than it just automatically does it but at least you can organize your system.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #11 on:** May 15, 2007, 07:12:16 PM

I know that. The trojan wouldn't give you an option. It just automatically saved everything to the desktop. Mildly annoying so I didn't fix it and after a year or so, I got over 4000 icons.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #12 on:** May 15, 2007, 07:38:29 PM

I never heard of a trojan doing something like that.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #13 on:** May 15, 2007, 10:51:56 PM

There are literly tens of thousands of trojans out there. only several hundred are publicised because most of them are just do stupid stuff like this. I have made several of them (don't worry. I never let them go through the net. The last thing I want is for the cops to come and arrest me for something I did on the computer). Anyway, there is an index on the internet that has about 46,000 trojans listed and their effects. Some of them do things that are so small, they are inconsiquential.