This is enough icons to fill about six and a half rows. Eying it now, I’d say it covers about 20% of my very cool-looking Mars wallpaper–so it could be worse. Roughly five times worse, if my incredible math skills haven’t failed me. Still, it’s clear I’ve become lazy and turned the desktop into a dumping ground for all kinds of junk.
Or have I?
Well, yes. Yes, I have. But there’s also a practical reason. The desktop is always right there, so it’s easy to grab a file from it, rather than rooting around in File Explorer. But I could, of course, clean up all these files after I’ve made use of them (they are typically screenshots or other things I only need to keep handy in the moment, not forever and ever). This is where the lazy part comes in.
I’m going to clean them up right now. I will insert simulated time below and report the results.
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Well, that took longer than expected, but the final result is:
- A bunch of files moved to appropriate folders
- A bunch of files deleted
- Only two icons remain on the desktop, one of which is the Recycle Bin
- File Explorer also crashed toward the end of the clean-up, possibly because I had the temerity to have about five tabs open.
In all, success! Now to get just as organized off the computer.
