desktop organization

As you gaze at your computer desktop, what do you see? For many of us, it's a chaotic mix of folders, files, shortcuts, and sometimes, the odd meme or two. Picture it: a digital wasteland where the search for that crucial document feels more like a scavenger hunt than a straightforward task...

This happened to me once before on my old computer and i don't know what I did to cause it then and still don't today. I have a new laptop and once again, things are in wrong places. ex: in the picture files are my downloaded files. In my download file there are only 5 items. If I try to put...

I just upgraded and when dragging my different media folders to where I want them to be, it suddenly will move them somewhere else and change the name. I'm dragging a folder called music to my desktop and suddenly it copies everything in to my music in some librarys directory, and I don't want...

I have a monitor and a TV. My Monitor is my main display while my TV is my "attached' display. Ive had Win7 for a few days and have a few issues: Issue 1# Items are sometimes moved to my TV display. Other times ill open them up and they will start out in my TV display (and this is a big...

I wanted to work on two windows side by side and I dragged one window to the left of the screen and it took up half the screen and then I dragged the other window to the right of the screen so that it would take up the other half, and I guess I dragged it too far and let go and it stayed there...

I've seen a lot of questions on this all over but no real answers. I like to be able to drag and drop files and folders where I want them but Windows 7 always rearranges them. Anybody find a work around or utility to restore this? I've played around in folder settings but haven't found anything...

Can anyone pls tell me how to put a folder full of shortcuts in the upper part of the desktop. On XP was easy - you just take the folder and move the mouse up as high as possible and than the folder stays like an upper taskbar with shortcuts that can hide. On Vista was quite not so easy but i...

Just migrated from XP to 7 and the first huge disappointment is the missing 'Remeber each folder's view settings' option. 7 just doesn't remember any window view/size/position settings appart from the last one used. One example... I like to have a folder with shortcuts on my desktop where I...