30 Day Meme, Day 12

[fufaraw]

Screenshot your desktop.

Here you go, thanks to wings128 !



Confession: I never learned how to do a screenshot. It would be boring, anyway.

I have a small taskbar at the bottom that pops up when I scroll over it, containing Windows, Firefox, Files, and Notepad icons. The Windows icon opens the start menu, where everything is. Firefox opens my browser. Files goes straight to most used: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and Pictures. Downloads is, of course, where everything goes until I can deal with it. Pictures get titled and sent to the proper folder. Vids, ditto. Documents--get dealt with in-folder, either edited and returned to author, read and deleted, or filed in the proper folder.

The desktop proper has one icon--Recycle bin. That's all. I hate clutter. Tell you a story. I used to be clerical/admin support for three executives, and they had the lovely habit of finishing their workday, dropping their work for me for the next day on my desk as they left. Which left me walking into my office in the morning to find it piled high with work. Which raised my blood pressure considerably.

We set up a workaround--a standing file somewhere *not* my desk where they would leave work--if it involved a stack of something, they'd leave a note where the stack could be found, and instructions on dealing with it--and directions. My desk had a phone, a nameplate, and a pen tray. The pens got locked away in my drawer overnight. I started my day off with a blank slate. By lunchtime the chaos was rampant, but by the end of the day, the desk was clear again and I could leave in good conscience.

My computer desktop is the same way. No clutter. I know where to find the shortcuts I need, and when I open my desktop, I get to bask in the artwork du jour. Which, right now, is this:



Which is edited from this gorgeous tribute to the kodama in Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke.

artist, unfortunately, unknown.

Comments

[wings128.livejournal.com]

It's one of those things that's so simple you wonder why you never knew how.

How I screenshot:

1. Hold down the "Shift" key and press the "Print Screen" key. Mine's at the end of the "F" keys along the top.
2. Open a gmail to yourself
3. Press "Ctrl" key and "v" key together
4. Image should load in body of email
5. Send to your own email address, open and download image.
6. Then you can upload to wherever you need it.

[fufaraw]

Thanks!

[tabaqui]

What gorgeous art! I love it.

I, too, dislike clutter, particularly clutter *other* people leave. I do have a row of icons down the far left side of my screen, though, as i don't want to fool around opening things to open things, if you know what i mean. Most everything else is in the task bar at the bottom.

[fufaraw]

OH is the same way--he has his important shortcuts visible. I think it's my ADD that makes visual clutter a problem for me. Everything's out of the way, out of sight, until I need it, and then I know where to go when I do need it.

Isn't that a gorgeous picture? I had the bottom half up for awhile, but I think I like the top half even more.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

That's SO beautiful :D