Desktop program icons

In recent years I have found I rarely click on the desktop icons anymore. With the introduction of w7 I have found them to be a complete nusiance and with the combo the task bar and start menu I have nearly all of my programs at my disposal ..

Just wondering if other users have found desktop icons next useless now !

Hardly ever use them. Why double-click when you can single-click?

In reply to a post by Taras:

Just wondering if other users have found desktop icons next useless now !

I don't know about the "now". I haven't used destop icons (other that transitory ones) since the days of Win 95.

I like a clean desktop, even to the extent of autohiding the task bar.

Ian

In reply to a post by AnotherExPipex:

Hardly ever use them. Why double-click when you can single-click?

I use desktop icons, and single click them.

Yes - I know it can be done.

Yep in folder options. That said, I have about 9 major programs I use on a regular basis and another 20 or so that may be used on a weekly basis so with w7 I have the most used ones pinned to the task bar and the rest pinned on the start menu.

That new Windows 7 taskbar isn't for me - I got rid of it and put the quick launch one back on.

Couldn't believe how large the default icon size was - took up so much space!

How is your system set up? (As looking at your comment you don't use icons)

you can make them go little

Not as little as the quicklaunch bar icons