Windows 8 desktop icons

Partly solved. It was fences that was locking my desktop icons I installed and uninstalled twice, causing and removing the effect.

So I now need another solution. I want something that will give me easy access to a number of folder and file shortcuts (30+). One way would be to setup top level folders on the desktop eg type1, type2, type3 etc. And then move the shortcuts to within each of these folders.

I will go with this if nothing else comes up.

If you like using dekstop instead of Start Screen, install the Classic Shell so you can have a start menu where you can pin your shortcut folders like this (note: sample below was done in Win 7 but can be done with Classic Shell):





This way, you can keep your desktop clutter-free.




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Badrobot,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have too many files and folders that I want quick access to for the start menu (classic shell), and at the same time I have setup the windows 8 start screen to access all my software. I don't use the online phone apps that they put on their start menu.

I have not done enough studying yet. I use outlook for mail and organisation. Can I connect the "phone apps" so that when I click the mail outlook comes up - not hotmail or whatever they are calling it now.

My folders workaround is doing it for me so far. I have on my desktop some gadgets including a launcher and 6 folders containing shortcuts - seems OK, and when I want software I press the windows button the windows 8 start comes up and I load software. This is OK to begin with.

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best,

BillZ

Hi Mike,

Had remembered you had suggested some launchers, downloaded them and lost them in all my machine change stuff.

Anyway it looks as if I can use rocketdock with some icon changes so good news - thanks.

Will work on it.

Thanks again.

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best,

BillZ

Dear Mike,

Thanks for persisting with this. I wasted two hours playing around with shortcuts and icons, and came up with a personal rocketdock that I can use. It is probably a little retentive but it amuses me. Maybe you can see it?

Mike,

One disadvantage to rocketdock. When I was using fences the "save as" menu saw the shortcuts on the desktop. Saved all the drilling down to find data files.

Hi

Here's my Rocket Dock....

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For the most part I add things to the dock just by dragging them to it.
Occasionally I find something that won't work that way, but most things do.

Mike

MikeHawthorne said:

Hi

Here's my Rocket Dock....

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For the most part I add things to the dock just by dragging them to it.
Occasionally I find something that won't work that way, but most things do.

Mike

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Mike, how does it affect your boot up time? That dock looks so busy and it seems to be adding a lot of time on start up.


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Hi

I don't think that opening Rocket Dock has a lot of effect on the boot time, all it's doing is loading the icons on the bar.

I have everything that I use on a regular basis on the Rocket Dock.

The thing that takes time seems to be Steam.

That's still a lot less icons then the several hundred that show up on my Metro Start Screen.

As you can see they are all organised from right to left, Games, Windows Tools, Graphic Arts, and Video and 3D.

This isn't new for me with Windows 8, I use the exact same setup in Windows 7, so I know exactly where everything is.
I hardly have to look at it any more. LOL

The truth is I hardly notice the boot time anyway, I just push the button when in the morning and go have coffee, by the time I'm done it's booted up and run my security scans.

But it does save time later, having everything one click away.

Mike

I just use the very basic feature.. shortcuts in folder... hahaha. Works for me. I run 4 monitors but you barely see anything on 1 monitor (the main monitor). The rest have nothing on them.

The only things I don't put on Rocket Dock, and that go on the task bar are things that I want to have visible when I'm running software.

Things like Windows Explorer, Skype, Snipping Tool, Chrome, Agent Ransack, and Word.
These are things I sometimes want to access while I'm online, or running other applications so I can make a phone call, or search for files without minimizing the program I'm in.

Of course there are a multitude of programs on my all programs list that I seldom or never access.

Mike