{"id":15718,"date":"2018-10-15T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=15718"},"modified":"2018-10-15T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:13:53","slug":"windows-basics-an-easy-cure-for-desktop-clutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-basics-an-easy-cure-for-desktop-clutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Basics: An Easy Cure for Desktop Clutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Windows Basics: An Easy Cure for Desktop Clutter<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Most of us learn early that the desktop is a great place to put things so they&#8217;re easy to find. But, while that may be true in the beginning when, for instance, you&#8217;re starting out with a new computer, if you keep putting things on your desktop, eventually you won&#8217;t be able to find anything. Your desktop will be the hall of fame of clutter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Does your desktop look like this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-clutter.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"286\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Icons, icons everywhere. Let&#8217;s fix that! Right-click on an empty space on your desktop choose &#8220;View&#8221; then uncheck &#8220;Show desktop icons&#8221;. See screenshot below:<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-icons.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Yes! Look how pretty &#8211; when it&#8217;s all clean. See?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-clean.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But where did all your stuff go? We&#8217;ll it&#8217;s still there. You can see it by typing Desktop in taskbar search and pressing Enter. Or you can open File Explorer and click on Desktop. But, we&#8217;re going to show you a better way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re going to create a Desktop toolbar right on your taskbar where it&#8217;s always easily accessible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Right-click on your taskbar and click on &#8220;Toolbars&#8221; and put a check mark by &#8220;Desktop&#8221; (as in the screenshot below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-toolbar.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now look on the right side of your taskbar, just to the left of the notification area? See? There&#8217;s your new toolbar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-toolbar1a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now when you click on the double arrows (above) you&#8217;ll see an alphabetical (by type) list of items on your desktop &#8211; all neat and in order. See?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/desktop-toolbar2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">What&#8217;s better than a clean desktop &#8211; one that lets you see your pretty desktop wallpaper &#8211; and still making it easy to access all the stuff on your desktop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Basics: An Easy Cure for Desktop Clutter Most of us learn early that the desktop is a great place to put things so they&#8217;re easy to find. But, while that may be true in the beginning when, for instance, you&#8217;re starting out with a new computer, if you keep putting things on your desktop, eventually you won&#8217;t\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-basics-an-easy-cure-for-desktop-clutter\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2729,2728,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15718\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}