Desktop full of icons

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cbass377@reddit

My desktop is like that, 239 icons organized by Penis. When I need to find something, I open up the desktop folder in explorer and pick it from the alphabetical list.

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colin8651@reddit

"Listen Chuck, I can't organize the icons on your desktop by Penis"

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Break2FixIT@reddit

I have a meeting in like 2 minutes.. put it back the way it was...

Takes photo, sets as background, and the user said that was fine... Lol

The best part was the logging into the email server, and deleting it haha

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That last part... Glorious. The only criticism I had was that in no way was or is Exchange that fast in propagating all the permission bullshit, bits and bobs so that you can access another mailbox in 10 seconds. Maybe if you're just doing a Set-MailboxFolderPermission for the inbox, but you'll waste 5 minutes just getting the syntax right for this specific asshole cmdlet.

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purplemonkeymad@reddit

For real they would have been using exchange 2003 or 2000. I only used it a few times but I always felt like administration was way snappier than 2007+. IIRC in the vid he already had given him self access to all mailboxes, but opens them when he needs.

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sakatan@reddit

Need to rewatch that. 's been a year.

But that would make sense. Did he disable caching as well?

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colin8651@reddit

This is back it the old Exchange days. When sysadmins would apply the BlackBerry Enterprise Permissions (besadmin) to their work account.

You would be vertically integrated into every mailbox.

Although it was faster to be logged into OWA, upper right corner, open mailbox, type the first few letters of the username and BAM, right into the mailbox.

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MalletNGrease@reddit

It is nowadays. I've it on my cheat-sheet and it's not all that hard.

Connect-Exchangeonline
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "BossMan@acme.corp" -User "WebDude@acme.corp" -AccessRights FullAccess -AutoMapping $true

Sometimes the mailbox is mounted within a minute, otherwise I can access it instantly on Outlook online.

When you're done just do a Remove-MailboxPermission

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sakatan@reddit

Oh, I know these cmdlets quite well, but we're using a fuckton of Exchange Onprem servers. Takes ages until everything is just so, so that even OWA will take a while to not Access Deny you.

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colin8651@reddit

“Did you reboot the web server”

“Uh, no….. I mean yeah”

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gregsting@reddit

How many times did you reboot it?

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Break2FixIT@reddit

It's hilarious when the sales guys told that to the web dude hah

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phobug@reddit

My presentation was on the tip of the penis!

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ThesisWarrior@reddit

My presentations usually go al the way to the base.

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SituationNormal1138@reddit

How long as it been like that?

8 or 9 years?

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UMustBeNooHere@reddit

I think much older than that.

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SituationNormal1138@reddit

It's actually when the tech asks the guy how long his icons have been like that and the guy is like "8 or 9 years?"

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UMustBeNooHere@reddit

Ah…gotcha. I forgot about that part.

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TheTechJones@reddit

16 actually. 2009 should be allowed to be that long ago

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SituationNormal1138@reddit

It's actually when the tech asks the guy how long his icons have been like that and the guy is like "8 or 9 years?"

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TheTechJones@reddit

Time for a rewatch!

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phobug@reddit

This is going right onto boing-boing!

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OKidontknow123445@reddit

Sales force was on the right ball!

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winaje@reddit

Oh I so came here to say that. And for those who don’t get the context, YouTube Sales Dude vs Web Guy

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Fiercesome5@reddit

I remember the dude had a downloadable program that would pull off said arrangement. The biggest problem we found was having enough icons on someone's desktop to flesh it out. Pun intended.

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Jawshee_pdx@reddit

I reference this regularly. Especially sneaking into the bosses sent items and deleting emails.

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colin8651@reddit

The opposite for me. Flaky user who people don’t like in the office

“This email never made it to Theresa!” “It’s in her outlook trash”

“This email never made it to Sarah!” “It wasn’t in her trash, she emptied it yesterday, but it was in her Recover Deleted Items. I recovered it for her”

I felt bad for the lady, the other woman in the office would just delete messages from her if they wanted to ignore the content.

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RoaringRiley@reddit

They really need to make a 2025 version. There are so many comedic possibilities with modern cloud services.

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Mister_Mojo78@reddit

Desktop shortcuts are horrible, but do you ever see the users that have about 100 tabs open in their browser?

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Warronius@reddit

Yes !! Lmao web dude strikes again

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colin8651@reddit

"U Pee Telephony, I Pee Urine"

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First_Code_404@reddit

Lazlo's job is to walk around the datacenter saying, "What the fuck?"

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colin8651@reddit

“What rack. What rack?”

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gregsting@reddit

Actually... GitHub - ZaDarkSide/ArrangeByPenis: Arrange By Penis - The desktop icon sorting option that Windows forgot, which would align your icons into the shape of a penis.

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FurryBasilisk@reddit

"Wait I thought you said the website was done"

"No I can't get to it NOW"

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Blackhawk_Ben@reddit

Yes you can, you just need the right tool.

https://github.com/ZaDarkSide/ArrangeByPenis

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colin8651@reddit

I stand mistaken

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lankyleper@reddit

I think sales guy's name was Chip, not Chuck.

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colin8651@reddit

Chip, that was the name.

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sakatan@reddit

There it is

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aes_gcm@reddit

As is tradition

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Ok-Display581@reddit

Mac desktops are fun too, had a user that had so much on the desktop that it literally looked like the good old card shuffling where you just spread out the cards in a big pile and just whirl it around :D

Personally i never use the desktop, even hide the icons on my own devices. I use the file explorer instead to find things on there. :)

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Kruug@reddit

Any duplicate icons? We have a GPO that puts icons of "necessary" icons on everyone's desktops.

But it runs twice.

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djholland7@reddit

I hate GPOS that put desktop icons on user's desktops. its 2025. Why can't people manage their own bookmarks. I wont work those tickets. "I'm working on something else."

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_araqiel@reddit

Because you can’t fix stupid.

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djholland7@reddit

Yes you’re correct. I dislike it but you are right.

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YouPelicant@reddit

Zero icons for me, I even hide the recycling bin. Nothing pinned to taskbar either, nice and simple!

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sriwer@reddit

I once received request by for additional memory by user whose technical skills are ... on abacus level, so I went to assess the situation and was greeted by screen full of icons and complaint was he has no more room for additional files hence he needs more memory.

The range of emotions I felt at that moment was broad, intense and tongue biting.

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netsysllc@reddit

I have icons turned off on my desktops

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stephendt@reddit

I did this and got too many complaints sigh

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netsysllc@reddit

yea people dont seem to understand what the start menu is

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MisterBazz@reddit

The last OS that actually labeled the Windows start button with "Start" was Windows XP. There are people now that are just now using computers that have literally never used a Windows system with a menu button labeled "Start."

Those of us that grew up when Windows 95 was launched just take it for granted, assuming everyone knows it's supposed to be the "Start" button and not the "Menu" button.

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jeo123@reddit

Window 11 still calls it the start menu.

You just have to hover over the start button. The text will appear

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MisterBazz@reddit

You tell a user to hover something and I guarantee you they will click on it.

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YLink3416@reddit

I wish they would figure out how to integrate "Start" back into the icon. It's a real pain in the ass to describe to users "push the button with the windows logo on it".

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

Odd one, but we've had someone join recently who only knows what/where the start menu is. Pinned icons on the taskbar? Pah, get them outta here. Search for everything, baby!

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ValkayrianInds@reddit

if my hands are already on my keyboard, it's so much faster to just search than grab my mouse to click the bar. I know win+[1-9] works too, though I usually only use that if I have the program's position memorized

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Rare_Rogue@reddit

Our desktops get reset every night, have a handfull of default icons that everyone uses that stay.

Does it mean you'll loose your work if you save it to your desktop, yes but that's why we have stupid amounts of networked storage.

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mycatsnameisnoodle@reddit

Why not just redirect the desktop to the stupid amount of network storage?

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Rare_Rogue@reddit

Eh I didn't design it that way, someone's policy from times gone by.

Besides wouldn't that slow down log in times, pulling data from the network storage to load a desktop

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mycatsnameisnoodle@reddit

No - it doesn't move anything around, the desktop just resides on a UNC path.

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FederalPea3818@reddit

It shouldn't assuming plain old folder redirection, depends how the profiles are managed a bit.

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Considuous@reddit

Why do this at all anyway, just let people keep shit on their desktop if they want to.

Like what the heck is the point of wiping it every night?

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MisterBazz@reddit

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Same

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Secret_Debt_88@reddit

So you uninstalled all the programs?

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netsysllc@reddit

Programs are not I installed on the desktop.... literally right click on desktop, hide icons option

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Secret_Debt_88@reddit

Sorry I forgot on reddit to add "/s". You see I was pretending to be a user who is confused why there are no programs when the desktop is empty. it was sarcasm one could say.

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4kVHS@reddit

How many times to I need to right click on the desktop and choose “refresh” to get them back?

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bigwetdog10k@reddit

Jesus, just let people work how they want. Redirect them and who cares. You probably force a company logo as the desktop background too.

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netsysllc@reddit

I said mine...

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elldee50@reddit

This is the way.

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jeo123@reddit

My desktop is a flood of icons. You'll never find a thing there.

Want to know why there are 391 icons there?

Because who goes to the desktop to open something?

Any application I use regularly is pinned to the task bar or the start bar. Anything else, I open it from the start menu.

My desktop is basically just a folder. I access it through Windows explorer far more than I do the desktop, mostly because I never want to minimize everything to open something new and with extended desktop, it's annoying to guess which monitor an icon is on.

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HugeGuava2009@reddit (OP)

Straight to jail

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Erd0@reddit

Desktop icons should be long dead but why were you searching for it for a long time? Just type..

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gregsting@reddit

I've had user ask fo all their website they use to open at the startup of their browser. No favorites, open everything in tabs

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BROMETH3U5@reddit

So Edge restore tab feature? Not the weirdest request.

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gregsting@reddit

Just a lot of startup pages

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Otto-Korrect@reddit

We make sure our users are aware the desktops are NOT backed up in any way. And they store not just 1,000 icons, but also make folders and fill them with documents, videos, music....

At some point I'll set a quote for Desktop storage. Just enough for a dozen icons.

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YLink3416@reddit

At some point I'll set a quote for Desktop storage. Just enough for a dozen icons.

There's no reason to do that. Just let users figure out what works for them. You're trying to admin folder hierarchy onto users that might not have those visual connections.

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rabidphilbrick@reddit

You must admin public school teachers. I refreshed the OS install for my Elementary school staff before the start of the second year I was there and experienced serious whiplash of people who saved things to C:\$folder. There were yearly trainings across the 13 school district after that to make sure the staff and IT were on the same page. It was made clear: first troubleshooting step is OS reinstall. Second is hard drive replacement. Third is new device. Also, there were yearly OS refreshes from henceforth. If you want to keep it, put it $here. Also: you’re not an admin and can’t create “C:\folder”….

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Otto-Korrect@reddit

Yeah, we have all "My Documents" folders mapped to server shared on clustered file servers with almost constant backups.

If you want to put it on your local drive, then don't come to me when your drive fails, are we replace your computer, and everything vanishes.

And still we get so many 'where did my spreadsheet go?' tickets. :(

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Danngl6959@reddit

Whats your problem with my icons ? Sysadmin aswell but i guess you would get stroke if you saw my desktop. Other than that, next time when you cannot find the icon just use search and hit enter.

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HugeGuava2009@reddit (OP)

I hate them.., :p I like a clean desktop I like to compare if your office desk is piled up with papers
No really, so users are able to find program icons that do matter.
1 example If I deploy software remote.. I don't get questions.. where is the icon?

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Danngl6959@reddit

I had recently have to make little PS script to tidy up my documents and other crap into desired folders in documents to free up some space lol. I can relate but my experience is even if user got 5 icons on desktop and i deploy software make an shortcut he will still most likely ask me the same.

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bobmlord1@reddit

I once laughed in someone's face because they were being belligerent to the point of refusing to use a computer on the other side of a hallway to fix an issue as we were having a system-wide problem with printing.

The other low level tech with me that day (we were both there in student positions) just walked out in the middle of their rant and left me to deal with it.

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Nick12322@reddit

I’ve never once said “you people” accidentally

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ArchusKanzaki@reddit

So I guess you definitely use it deliberately.

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Nick12322@reddit

I do, yeah, usually when I’m trying to be a jerk

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chum-guzzling-shark@reddit

well if you use it all the time in other contexts sometimes it can slip out when talking to users

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the_federation@reddit

When I was in college about 10 years ago, the campus had really shitty network connection for a few months, to the point we effectively had no Internet. I'm talking days long outages and speeds measured in KB when there wasn't an outage. The students who lived on campus (basically all students since the school required it) complained that we couldn't effectively take our classes without Internet, especially those taking online courses.

Then, one student posted a sign outside the computer lab that the Student Technology fee we paid each semester went towards computers and Internet. Students started petitioning the administration to refund the Student Technology fee since we were not receiving what was promised. Of course the school said no, and when they held a town hall about the outages multiple students asked that the fee be refunded until the assistant dean said "Don't you guys get it, the Technology fee is just a way for the school to take more of your money. It doesn't actually do anything."

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DariusWolfe@reddit

I say it sometimes, and if someone comes back with "What do you mean 'you people'?" My response is always the same:

"All you people that aren't me."

I even said it once in a crowd with a couple of black men, but that response made them laugh so I didn't need to attend any extra sensitivity training.

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pcronin@reddit

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huh?

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DrDontBanMeAgainPlz@reddit

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djholland7@reddit

You could open desktop in explorer, sort by date, and find it easily. But youre condescending response helps no one. You only push the steryoptype that IT admins are abrasive and crass.
Why would this annoy you? This has nothing to do with you.

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HugeGuava2009@reddit (OP)

riiiight, just take in minde aside that I told (that specific) collegue('s) in te past not overload the desktop with icons for ease of IT support.

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djholland7@reddit

Why would they listen to you about their desktop icons? Sometimes we need to do better to manage other's expctations of us as sys admins. I can't find my icons is a tier 1 problem. I thought you were talking about you navigating through another user's desktop? w/e problems will always be present. It just depends on how we react to them. Good luck to you.

May all your patched servers reboot correctly.

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HugeGuava2009@reddit (OP)

It's just advice from 'the (sole) it guy' and best practice.
it's not like something like that is in the IT policy.. but.. if users want to be stubborn they can expect a remark from me If I need to give them support.

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Stryker1-1@reddit

This sounds like the type of user who would still have 20 different toolbars in their browser

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RevWaldo@reddit

What is that!?I haven't seen that one since the 90's! If this was a human being I'd shoot it in the face!

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desmond_koh@reddit

Is that still a thing?

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wanderinggoat@reddit

Somewhere in the world there is still a computer running that has bonzi buddy installed on it.....

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sum_yungai@reddit

What's the big deal? That gorilla is really good at remembering your passwords for you.

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Gadgetman_1@reddit

Some of those toolbars can really mess up wome websites. One of them was the main cause of breakage of the document archive system in my organisation.

Yes, I know, that system probably wasn't coded very well. None of the legitimate tools or apps we had at the time borked it, though.

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no_regerts_bob@reddit

It's probably one of my clients

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greendookie69@reddit

I was just going to reply "remember when this was a thing?"

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Ruben_NL@reddit

It's possible to create something that looks like a toolbar with a modern browser extension, but those should be reported to the store and removed.

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BearGFR@reddit

Is there a question in there somewhere or are you just trying to boost your own ego by denigrating how someone else prefers to work?

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Jezbod@reddit

"Prefers to work inefficiently" FTFY

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BeanBagKing@reddit

Desktop is just another folder, I'll put what I want there (which is everything).

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BROMETH3U5@reddit

I do the same thing for stuff I'm actively working with/on. A habit I cannot be bothered to break. It's also backed up to OneDrive.

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Vertism@reddit

Yikes. Not at the user, but at the OP not knowing to just press the windows key and start typing what he’s looking for.

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Jezbod@reddit

Right click - Sort by - name. Much easier to find then.

Or Win + E to open explorer and got to the desktop folder - search in there.

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SelfImproveAcct@reddit

I’d be rolling my eyes at an admin who was manually searching for a desktop icon lol

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ManBearSausage@reddit

I know this type. Once desktop gets full she saves on usb drives. Her purse is full of usb drives. Once purse gets full, she starts using laptop bag. Laptop bag is now full, what will come next?

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willwork4pii@reddit

Butt

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myfootsmells@reddit

Who cares? Use the search feature, be more efficient yourself.

It's people like you that give the rest of us a bad name where you think you're better than others. Grow up.

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SelfImproveAcct@reddit

Agreed reading the responses in this thread is a bit jarring. People skills are important

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Unable-Entrance3110@reddit

When see this, I normally will just open Explorer and browse to the desktop folder in order to better organize the shortcuts. Or, if I know the name of the shortcut, I will just select any shortcut on the desktop and start typing the name, which will then select the appropriate shortcut.

No shade on a user who likes to use their desktop as a file store, whatever works for you.

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tom_bacon@reddit

I couldn't tell you the last time I clicked on anything on my Desktop.

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rabidphilbrick@reddit

I don’t use desktop icons and ignore a user’s. I just press Super key for Windows and Linux and just start typing what I need. Mac users I think have “Super+Tab”?

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Arillsan@reddit

Exactly this, I don't expect people to judge my indoor decorations and my taste in furniture - why are some people "better than others" to the point of looking down at them having a messy desktop, mind your own business folks... and us being in IT we should know that you dont need to navigate a desktop for an icon to double click and launch the program, shape up!

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StudioAlemni@reddit

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. One of the first things I learned when I trained to be in IT is basic respect for the end user. Everyone works differently, some people have that clutter but they know where everything is.

I had to re-read OPs post several times because I was kind of in disbelief. The thought of outwardly judging a client's work environment by sighing and rolling your eyes instead of just using the tools you have as an IT professional to do the task at hand isn't really relatable, it just gave me second-hand embarrassment.

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meatwad75892@reddit

This is the way. I've done this since Windows Vista, watching generations of Windows users argue about Start menus/screens, sitting in the corner tapping Win + [whatever] + Enter to get what I want and ignoring the rest.

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datec@reddit

MacOS is command + space... Or which ever button is just to the left of the space bar.

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Commonpleas@reddit

Spotlight

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datec@reddit

Lmao... Whoops... Thank you!

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Timothy303@reddit

It technically brings up Spotlight. Finder is the Mac equivalent of Windows Explorer. Finder is Option-Command-Space, which is like Windows Ctrl-Alt-Space

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rabidphilbrick@reddit

I was hoping someone would provide that. Thank you!

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downtownpartytime@reddit

yeah, why look for the desktop icon?

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no_regerts_bob@reddit

Our network team was doing a presentation to the C-levels on the progress of their new server room install, when one particularly nice looking photo of the servers and cabling was shown on the presentation screen I muttered "nick rack" much louder than I should have. got a written warning

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elldee50@reddit

Worth it.

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no_regerts_bob@reddit

No regerts

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the_federation@reddit

Username checks out

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ie-sudoroot@reddit

I would have absolutely challenged that and brought a legal challenge if not rescinded.

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no_regerts_bob@reddit

Life will be easy for you

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ie-sudoroot@reddit

Life is as hard as you make it

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dirtyd777@reddit

The book of life must teach 📖

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isotycin@reddit

I would have done that too to be honest.

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genuineshock@reddit

Bunch of tight asses there, huh? That's crazy over reacting.

Not to say it's the norm, but the CEO of my mid size msp would definitely bust up at "nice rack" in a meeting.

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trjnz@reddit

They're building an onprem DC, and have a dedicated network team. They're pretty big

He probably got told off for just talking at all. In those rooms, unless you're a senior team manager, just sit, smile, and nod

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tech2but1@reddit

Any regrets?

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ohyayitstrey@reddit

I once remoted into a user's laptop who had been saving everything to desktop. The icons were triple-stacked on top of each other. I didn't even know that was possible.

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ArchusKanzaki@reddit

Ok. I do need a nice chuckle once in a while on this gloomy sysadmin subreddit

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janky_koala@reddit

Wouldn’t you just open a new Explorer/Finder window and scroll to the app name there? Or use the start menu?

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packetatlas@reddit

Throw everything in a folder named "sort" and never look back.

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Galileominotaurlazer@reddit

How does a sysadmin not know how to use start to find programs?

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I_can_pun_anything@reddit

Click one of em and press the keyboard key with the first character

And later screenshot the desktop background, set as wallpaper and delete every icon. *

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wrootlt@reddit

You could have showed off as a magician by opening File Explorer and showing them that Desktop is actually a folder and finding the icon in an alphabetical list 😁

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RedGobboRebel@reddit

Shortcuts are fine. People can organize their shortcut icons in whatever shapes they like.

Files. Important files. Files that if lost would cause real harm to the org. Stored on the desktop. That's what makes my face twitch.

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armchairqb2020@reddit

This is why I hate IT. Bunch of snobs.

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bi_polar2bear@reddit

Back in the Windows 98 days, every install forced a desktop icon, and often, uninstalls didn't remove the icon. Even search bars for Explorer had icons for some reason. Most end users had a LOT of icons, many people had no room for new icons and created tickets because the "software didn't install" or "they can't find their new software ". Life has greatly improved.

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LightBeerIsAwful@reddit

I don’t use desktop shortcuts. Suck it.

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gadget850@reddit

But if those icons go missing they can't do their job.

I just drill into the Desktop folder and sort by name.

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fedesoundsystem@reddit

I met a person that saved EVERYTHING to their desktop, and had it full of icons, and icons would pile up on the first left "socket", and then you would be presented with a full blown icons desktop, and then one awful thing of every color on the left top. How to find any of that? Easy, open explorer and go to desktop there I would have liked to punch that person in the face every time I saw that

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TotallyInOverMyHead@reddit

I do that too. once per month i open the desktop in Explorer, create a new Folder, move all items too it. Then next month I do the same and delete the previous folder. Why ? because i open all my software via keyboard, Streamdeck Xl or StreamDeck Studio depending on the location i am at.

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NecroAssssin@reddit

I reflexively downvoted that. I took it back, but there's better ways to get there.

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DariusWolfe@reddit

Click on the screen to bring the focus to the desktop from any other place it may be, then type the first letter of the file/program you're looking for. It'll cycle through all the icons starting with that letter, which will still be much faster than looking with your human eyeballs.

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landob@reddit

I had this happen once. did the sigh and roll of the eyes. Then just typed the name of it on the keyboard so that it would select it amongst the chaos. Then someone was like "*gasp!* How did you do that?!?!" lol blew a lot of executives minds that day.

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joshghz@reddit

A principal at my previous job (K12 IT) had a 1920x1080 laptop screen that was well and truly to capacity with icons. Somehow he managed to make that system work.

A teacher friend at the same job had the same problem but with Chrome tabs. Like literally the whole bar was compressed down to the favicon, and she insisted she needed every one and knew exactly what every item was. She was always a bit sad, when I told her I'd have to reboot the laptop (usually because it had gotten to the point where Chrome had devoured the whole thing).

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Ol_JanxSpirit@reddit

Don't tell her about CTRL+SHIFT+D

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joshghz@reddit

I honestly didn't know about that one. She gave me doleful eyes once, and I caved and told her about Ctrl + Shift + T re-opening an entire window of tabs after it had been closed.

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JustHereForYourData@reddit

You can search icon quickly by letter on your desktop.

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DarthUmieracz@reddit

I just long press the first letter of icon name I'm searching for. Cursor quickly jumps between icons starting with this letter, effectively highlighting all of them. Then finding target icon is easy.

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rickAUS@reddit

I used to be of those people with everything on their desktop. This was particularly bad when I was at uni as I just kept all my assignments right there on the desktop, maybe in a folder if it was a programming thing with multiple classes, etc.

Then one day I had to do a rebuild of my computer and I just couldn't be bothered. Fresh install of Windows looking at a blank desktop except for the Recycle Bin and Computer and I was done. Can't remember the last time I launched anything off the desktop (for work at least). Everything I need is either pinned to the taskbar of start menu depending on how much use it gets.

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DevinSysAdmin@reddit

File Explorer > Desktop > Press first letter of software name until software is highlighted

This should take you less than 10 seconds to find it.

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mrz3ro@reddit

Open Windows Explorer, navigate to the Desktop folder and look for the app there? Might be easier to find since you can sort by date.

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Vesalii@reddit

I haven't seen the desktop of my work PC in months,probably. Except right after a reboot.

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brokensyntax@reddit

Why even bother looking for the icon?
Just use the OS' integrated search function or terminal shell at that point.
GUIs are slow at the best of times.

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SituationNormal1138@reddit

Win Key > type app > hit Enter

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Commercial-Fun2767@reddit

I once had a smile that meant « my grand ma would have done the same » or « your so noob little sis » to the ceo. I totally regretted my natural reaction but I think she understood and accepted that familiar reaction.

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ruet_ahead@reddit

Just arrange by pen1s. Duh...

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RFreeZeYo@reddit

great reference

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pcronin@reddit

ugh. I use the windows option to hide desktop icons on mine, otherwise I'd end up having loads there.

I also just use the search to launch things, but I get it when a user says "icon on my desktop" and there's over 9000 to choose from...

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wosmo@reddit

So much this, but doubly so when I'm going to be presenting or screensharing.

Turning off my icons before I share my screen is just as natural as muting my mic before I cough up a lung.

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