Katie Wickens, particular person with opinions
This week I’ve been principally taking part in Land of the Vikings. Residing my finest cozy life proper now as Jarl of my very own little Viking settlement. Attempting to steadiness their horniness with the village’s meals manufacturing values is proving fairly troublesome, although.
This month I’ve been principally testing RTX 40-series gaming PCs. It is a bit hit and miss with these infants proper now, hopefully firms will cease pairing shit supporting parts with beastly GPUs quickly. I am not relying on it.
Each time I return to the sanctuary that’s my Home windows desktop, I’m met with new icons which have someway sprung from the ether and into my line of sight. It is turning right into a sport of whack-a-mole with these persistent, little icons. So why the heck is it the default for therefore many apps to create desktop icons by default?
That is one thing that is been consuming away at me for ages. If you happen to learn my piece on how your desktop reveals your D&D alignment, you may know the way a lot I despise the sight of a desktop coated in eyesores. At any time when a program (or an app, as we’re calling all the things now) updates itself, it is going to plaster my in any other case pristine desktop with a brand new, very undesirable icon. It is infuriating. And earlier than you say “Katie, give up your complaining, you may simply conceal your desktop icons”, I do know. I do know… Proper click on the desktop, go to view, test off present desktop icons they usually’re gone, proper?
However sweeping one thing beneath the rug would not make it go away. I do know the little blighters are nonetheless there, lurking within the technological underdark.
We’re over right here determined to maintain our PCs trying clear and homely, whereas the chaotic evil devs on the market appear set on utilizing our desktops as a dumping floor. “Ooh, remember about our app, Katie. We exist, take note of us.”
Ubisoft Join is a minimum of one perpetrator I can consider that provides a desktop icon each time it updates. I additionally use Paint.web and Asana, two extra assailants mocking me with the ability they wield. Perhaps it is a delicate type of OCD, however I will be damned if I can not discover a option to nip this little assault within the bud earlier than my desktop turns into a warzone as soon as once more. The one prerequisite? I do not need to must open Command Immediate and grow to be a hacker.
A fast search confirmed that lots of people really feel the identical means as I do, and a few extra fervently than I. As illustrated by one reasonably eloquent Microsoft group submit entitled, “I DO NOT WANT ANY APPLICATIONS TO BE AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO MY DESKTOP”.
And since there’s a lot demand, there are a number of alternative ways to take care of the issue apart from simply hiding the desktop icons like some lazy homemaker. To this point, the simplest option to deal with it (Home windows 11) with out donning your l337 H4x0r hood, is to go to the File Explorer (ctrl + e), right-click the desktop folder, go to properties > safety > edit, and click on the deny checkbox for full management, beneath permissions.
I had a sense this may forestall not simply packages from including desktop icons, however get in the way in which for me as properly. Seems that is not the case. You’ll be able to nonetheless indiscriminately drag no matter you want onto the desktop if you completely have to, for the aim of velocity. And you’ll nonetheless create desktop shortcuts your self, however if you obtain a sport for instance and neglect to uncheck the field to create a shortcut, it mechanically disbands the motion—no popups to hassle you both.
Now we’re cooking with fuel. Oh, and I haven’t got to napalm my desktop each few weeks. I would name {that a} win.