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pamelah · May 1, 2003, 01:50 AM

I I like a nice CLLLLEEAAAAN desktop. I want rid of that stupid hard drive icon that nobody ever uses anyway!!!

Anybody know how? Or if it can't be gotten rid of I want it to stay in the lower right of my screen...but it always defaults to the top right after reboot.

help *wimper*

wataru · 03:48 AM

Go to the Finder. Go to "view options" in the View menu. Uncheck the box for hard drive icons on the desktop.

[Edit: Wow, I guess it's pretty obvious that I pulled this advice out of my ass. Sorry about that. I'll actually check what I post next time!]

ApeInTheShell · May 1, 2003, 01:59 AM

Click on Finder in the apple menu above. Select Preferences from the contextual menu.

uncheck the hard drive box and it will boot up with a clean desktop.

pamelah · May 1, 2003, 02:19 AM

Originally posted by ApeInTheShell:
Click on Finder in the apple menu above. Select Preferences from the contextual menu.

uncheck the hard drive box and it will boot up with a clean desktop.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Cipher13 · May 1, 2003, 04:45 AM

Originally posted by pamelah:
that nobody ever uses anyway!!!

Wow. You sure do account for a large number of people, considering that you're a single entity and all...

TheIceMan · May 1, 2003, 08:46 AM

Originally posted by ApeInTheShell:
Click on Finder in the apple menu above. Select Preferences from the contextual menu.

uncheck the hard drive box and it will boot up with a clean desktop.

Always wanted to know how to do this. Thanks.

Orion27 · May 1, 2003, 09:49 AM

Boy! pameiah will just love the "piles" option!

DeathMan · May 2, 2003, 01:38 AM

I tried this for a couple days, because the HD icon just kept moving around, and it was bothering me. but I also turned of mounted volumes too, but decided I like having them on the desktop. 18 years of macs, you kind of get used to having your volumes on the desktop.

Hi I'm Ben · May 2, 2003, 01:58 AM

Originally posted by DeathMan:
I tried this for a couple days, because the HD icon just kept moving around, and it was bothering me. but I also turned of mounted volumes too, but decided I like having them on the desktop. 18 years of macs, you kind of get used to having your volumes on the desktop.

i prefer everything in my dock.

click.

Macola · May 2, 2003, 08:16 PM

Originally posted by DeathMan:
18 years of macs, you kind of get used to having your volumes on the desktop.

To me, this has always been one of the strengths of the Mac OS compared to Windows. It just makes sense from a UI perspective to have a volume show up on the desktop when it's mounted. Oh well...to each his/her own

pamelah · May 3, 2003, 12:54 AM

Originally posted by Hi I'm Ben:
i prefer everything in my dock.

click.

can you say windows xp?? LOL!!

ApeInTheShell · May 3, 2003, 02:03 AM

your welcome.

i used the hard drive on the desktop for awhile because of how it was set up in Mac OS 9.
Soon I got used to the navigation system of the new finder because i felt the desktop was getting cluttered with too many stuffit files, alias's and yes the hard drive.

ben's desktop looks like windows xp but it is clearly more realistic. Is that the milk theme?

alex_kac · May 3, 2003, 11:48 AM

I would love to have my hard drive in the dock - if it supported Spring Loaded Folders

silverghost · May 3, 2003, 12:32 PM

I too love a clean desktop. I was going to post the how-to but quite a few poster's beat me to it

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The only thing that I have mount is cd's/dvd's,servers and firewire drives.
In my dock I put my laptop harddrive(its partitioned so ive got like 4 harddrive icons in the dock), I just wish springload would work in the dock, oh well one can wish.

aloha

malvolio · May 4, 2003, 01:20 AM

I keep my Desktop unsullied, too. And I use Ittec to navigate through any mounted volumes with just a simple Contol-click.

DBvader · May 4, 2003, 03:36 AM

i keep my desktop and dock completely clean

any application i need to launch i use launchbar.

all i need to do then is press command-space and type in the first few letters of the program (or whatever i set as the shortcut)

ie:

command-space wc starts warcraft three in less than a second...its much better than dock icons, or launching from the apps window.

also, if i need to get to the root directory or the computer i just press command shift C.

easy as that...no icons needed.

usually the dock is hidden

desktop

mrtew · May 4, 2003, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by DeathMan:
... 18 years of macs, you kind of get used to having your volumes on the desktop.

I was used to it too, and the first time I turned the harddrive icon off I freaked out, like someone had welded the door to my car shut or something, but in about a day I realized that the drive icon was useless clutter, and it actually makes no sense at all to have an icon for each hard drive on the desktop and on the left pane of every column finder window.

ReggieX · May 4, 2003, 12:00 PM

Originally posted by ApeInTheShell:
i felt the desktop was getting cluttered with too many stuffit files, aliases and yes the hard drive.

So don't put them there. I always have a designated Downloads folder so that none of that ends up anywhere near my Desktop. Keeps everything nice and clean.

Brass · May 4, 2003, 08:50 PM

Originally posted by Macola:
To me, this has always been one of the strengths of the Mac OS compared to Windows. It just makes sense from a UI perspective to have a volume show up on the desktop when it's mounted. Oh well...to each his/her own

Yes, it makes sense to have removable volumes show up on the desktop when you insert them, but there's not really any point (for me at least) in having built in hard drive icons on the desktop. I like that we have separate options for HD's and removable drives.

ApeInTheShell · May 4, 2003, 10:19 PM

ReggieX
I have a download folder as well.
I was pointing out that if you had come directly from Mac OS 8.6-9.2 those files collected on your screen and no one put alias's in folders.
defeated the purpose.
i'm glad the dock came along.