Desktop Cleanup

Do you have a lot of icons sitting on your desktop that you don't use? Maybe you downloaded a program and it made a new icon for you, but you don't really need it there. That happens to me all the time. That's why I have a folder on my desktop that is used just for the icons that I hardly or never use. Would you like to do the same?

It's very easy to do this. Just right click anywhere on your desktop and click New, then Folder. This will pop up a new folder right next to your other icons. Find that and then type in what you want to call it. I named mine "Unused Icons," but you can name it whatever you want. Just make sure you call it something that will remind you of what it is.

Once you have the folder named, you can just drag and drop the other icons that you don't use into that folder. For example, if you have an icon for Internet Explorer sitting on your desktop, but you also have one in your quick launch area, you don't need both of them. Put the one from your desktop in your new folder. It's as easy as that!

If you ever need to access any of those icons, you can just double click on your new folder and all of them will be waiting for you. They're not deleted from your computer, they're just put on hold. Sounds good to me!

~ Erin