I can’t stand clutter… of course, that’s not to say I’m disciplined enough to actually keep it away from my workspaces! Generally, I’m pretty lazy, and I end up with stacks of papers on my desk, or icons all over my computer desktop.
Every once in a while, I get annoyed enough to do something about it. This evening was one of those times, so I’ve cleared off the desktop of my Tablet PC, with a little help from Stardock’s great utility called Object Dock Plus.
That little dock at the top of my screen is my taskbar, believe it or not! The “Start” button is that little circle on the left, and my running applications are on the right. Since I’m on Vista, of course, the icons for each application are alive: they show the current contents of the application window.
The long dock at the bottom of my screen is my taskbar notification area (commonly known as the “system tray”). On the very left of that dock (see the little separator line?) is essentially a “Quick Launch” type of bar. It contains a handful of my most commonly launched programs.
Finally, you’ll see there’s a short, but wider dock along the right edge. That contains a few important “docklets” which display the current date, time, battery status, wifi strength, and even the weather.
