Desktops (quite large picture alert)

[Interference]

The eyes: windows to the soul. Windows? Argh. Well, if I'm supposed to be able to tell something about someone from their eyes, what about their desktop?

This is mine at a random moment snapped last night and hastily converted to JPG this morning:



I actually have two desktops (I dual boot between Windows 98 and XP Pro. Which comes in handy occasionally) but XP's is always the better looker.

In the top left, we have Winamp 5 belting out Supergrass at an unnecessary volume. Possibly an indication of my musical tastes but definetly evidence that I really hated Winamp 3 but liked what you could do with it.

The background stands testament to the fact I'm waiting in muted anticipation for Thief 3 to come out and hence feel the need to stare blindly at concept art while I'm working away at something or other.

Startbar-wise I've opted for one of those windows skinning utility thingumabobs to make things look a little more exciting for me to look at. Yay.

Icon-wise, note my desperation to cut down the amount of crap on my desktop. This has obviously completely failed to generate any results since a good 6th of the screen is still covered in 'em.

We have a selection of 3D applications, ranging from 3DS Max 5 for my Uni work to Maya PLE and Gmax, which were downloaded because I was curious.

We also have a plethora of RPGS filling my precious disk space along with the odd FPS, utterly fantastic 3rd person action game and - surprise - some adventure gaming content by way of Broken Sword 3, AGS and ScummVM (which I'm currently using to play Day of the Tentacle and Beneath a Steel Sky). That icon hiding in the bottom left is for Thievery - the Thief multiplayer modification for Unreal Tournament - which is quite good.

Ok then, what does yours look like? Display 'em as a JPG and try and be sensible with the file sizes, ie. mess around with compression in PSP (or whatever you use) to stop things getting ridiculous. Mind you, saving as a jpeg in MSPaint on XP seems to produce a better compressed  file size for me that PSP does (116k compared to 121k). Hrm.

If you don't have any webspace to upload images to then try www.photobucket.com, which comes in fairly useful.

Extra points if you're running an OS that's older than the hills. Resist the temptation to photograph the top of your desk in an abstract display of literal humour.

Of course, if admin objects to obscenely large pictures (see above) then feel free to blast this post into the stratosphere.

[Las Naranjas]

We have had a similar thread to this before, but I can't find it on a search so it's alright to make a new one, it's a great bonding exercise after all. So if anyone jumps down your throat, they suck.

However, it is almost completely necessary to provide a link to the large picture rather than showing it straight out, other wise it just becomes far too unwieldly as a thread (especially sine it throws out the width) if many people are showing large pictures, and some what unfair on dialup users (no matter how quaint they are with their corsets and horse drawn carriages).

[Ghostmaker]

Dont dis dial-up, we cant all be rich snobs, and as for horse and carts, i quite enjoy my horse and cart, it is a calm, pleasent, cheap form of travel. if thats how we all traveled we would have no polutuion problems, so there.


I WANT CABLE INTERNET :'(

[Privateer Puddin']

half the size

[remixor]

Full size:
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/remix-d031125.jpg

Somewhat smaller then half size:


I hate crap on my desktop.  Thus, my Quick Start bar is the stuff of legends.
From left to right: Desktop, Internet Explorer, Opera, Outlook Express, AIM+, AIM+ log viewer, AGS, K++, mIRC, c:\ shortcut, Spider Solitaire (best game ever), WordPad (best word processor ever), The Longest Journey, Quicktime, ACID Pro 3.0 (legal, even), Divx player, XIII demo, SNES emulator, MSPaint, Photoshop 7.0, Notepad, Banshee Screamer alarm clock, Sibelius 2, OpenOffice text document, Counter-Strike, Winamp 2, Syberia, Blade Runner, The Last Express, Shadow of Destiny, Max Payne, Minesweeper, ScummVM, AGON, Fruity Loops, Grim Fandango, XIII multiplayer demo, Call of Duty first demo, Call of Duty Dawnville demo, Serious Sam, Apocalypse Vel, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Need For Speed Underground Demo, Mouse-Board, 3DWatch, Max Payne 2 demo, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

[jannar85]

Full size: http://runestone.adventuredevelopers.com/temp/jannar85_laptop.jpg

P.S - You see the Roger Foodbelly icon?

[Al_Ninio]

www.sylpher.com/highwaygal/desktop_2.JPG

Right alignment and hebrew GALORE!

[Interference]

Remixor, that is a ridiculous number of quicklaunch buttons you have there. Can't wait for Armed and Dangerous to come out, mind you. Looks hilarious.

[AGA]

www.agagames.com/pics/desktop2k3.jpg - I tend to keep my desktop and quicklaunch as clear as possible - only the stuff I use often like Opera, mIRC and Media Player. My start menu is really well organised so I can find my stuff quickly. The 2 non-essential files on my desktop are two text files I use frequently. The 'websites last visited' is my record of what dates I'm up to with my favourite webcomics

[earlwood]

Not a very active desktop (puh dum ching)...anyone here play Jedi Knight 2 online?

...how did whitesnake get on my playlist?!

[Ghormak]

Watch me listening to the song with the greatest name ever!

http://www.agagames.com/ghormak/desktop.jpg

[TheDude]

http://mlb.buildtolearn.com/desktop.jpg

Just remembered to blur those out ;)

[Nacho]

this is my desktop... I know somebody show before his desktop, with photos of CJ, and files like "CJ´s breathe.mp3" or something like that... It was hilarious and funny, but I suppose it was just a joke. This is my REAL desktop, though. My girlfriend and me were taking a look to mittens´photos... and there it was!

[Esseb]

http://www.esseb.com/div/desktop.jpg

[Nacho]

Yeah! That was!  

[Esseb]

(shhh)

[Timosity]

Yes there was a desktop thread, but it has long slipped off the end of the forum, I remember someone with my game on their desktop, I was excited.



This is a photo of the earth from space if you can't tell, I change my desktop once in a while, and I usually find some excellent photo images from this site.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[DragonRose]

How do you take screen shots?  I want to play too!

[AGA]

n00b! Just press the printscreen key on your keyboard when you're on the desktop. Then paste this into a paint program

[DragonRose]

Ooooo... I didn't realize that you had to paste it into something.



My desktop background from when I was on a shared computer back at home.  I got used to the setup and am too lazy to make it less egotistical.