{"id":319,"date":"2007-07-17T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T01:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/17\/efficiency-tip-84-desktop-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:52","slug":"efficiency-tip-84-desktop-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/17\/efficiency-tip-84-desktop-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #84 &#8211; Desktop Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/20\/efficiency-tip-57-desktop-icons\/\">I said before<\/a>, I don&#8217;t use the desktop to store files.\u00a0 I\u00a0keep just one shortcut on my desktop.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t stop Windows from running the Desktop Cleanup Wizard every couple of months.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when this screen pops up and tries to remove anything I have not\u00a0used &#8220;recently&#8221; from my desktop.\u00a0 The killer thing&#8230; it wants to create a new folder on my desktop called &#8220;Unused Desktop Shortcuts&#8221; and place all the &#8220;unused&#8221; icons in there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/desktopcleanup.gif\" alt=\"desktopcleanup.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For all I know, after another 60 days it might ask to remove the folder it created to hold the icons I don&#8217;t use.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Don&#8217;t use your\u00a0desktop to store files.<br \/>\n2 &#8211; If you break rule #1, you don&#8217;t want to be bothered by this utility that\u00a0is continuously running in the background waiting to pounce on the 60th day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are instructions to turn it off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/320154\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/320154<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TSPY=0.06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As I said before, I don&#8217;t use the desktop to store files.\u00a0 I\u00a0keep just one shortcut on my desktop.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t stop Windows from running the Desktop Cleanup Wizard every couple of months.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when this screen pops up and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/17\/efficiency-tip-84-desktop-cleanup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}