Katie Wickens, particular person with opinions
This week I’ve been principally enjoying Land of the Vikings. Dwelling my finest cozy life proper now as Jarl of my very own little Viking settlement. Attempting to stability 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 corporations will cease pairing shit supporting elements 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 one way or the other 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 thus many apps to create desktop icons by default?
That is one thing that is been consuming away at me for ages. In case you learn my piece on how your desktop reveals your D&D alignment, you may understand how 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 the whole lot now) updates itself, it would plaster my in any other case pristine desktop with a brand new, very undesirable icon. It is infuriating. And earlier than you say “Katie, stop your complaining, you’ll be able to simply conceal your desktop icons”, I do know. I do know… Proper click on the desktop, go to view, examine off present desktop icons they usually’re gone, proper?
However sweeping one thing beneath the rug does 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, do not forget about our app, Katie. We exist, take note of us.”
Ubisoft Join is at the very least one wrongdoer I can consider that provides a desktop icon each time it updates. I additionally use Paint.internet and Asana, two extra assailants mocking me with the facility they wield. Possibly it is a gentle type of OCD, however I will be damned if I am unable to discover a solution 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 should open Command Immediate and turn into a hacker.
A fast search confirmed that lots of people really feel the identical manner as I do, and a few extra fervently than I. As illustrated by one somewhat 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 other ways to cope with the issue other than simply hiding the desktop icons like some lazy homemaker. To date, the best solution 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 applications from including desktop icons, however get in the way in which for me as nicely. Seems that is not the case. You possibly can nonetheless indiscriminately drag no matter you want onto the desktop once you completely have to, for the aim of pace. And you’ll nonetheless create desktop shortcuts your self, however once you obtain a sport for instance and neglect to uncheck the field to create a shortcut, it robotically 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 might name {that a} win.
