Bob B wrote:
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Seems like you have alot of icons on your desktop.. I put the litle used
icons in their own folder on the desktop. Handy if you need them but out of
the way most of the time. Bob

78 at the moment. I keep icons on the desktop for all the applications
I want to be able to get at with one click, and usually for a recent
document or two on a rotating basis. So long as I keep below
80 or so I find the result easy enough to deal with. I don't use
a custom background, so the icons are easy to see. My start menu has a
lot more items on it, and I use a hierarchy that keeps column heights
safely below the screen height.

All these things are matters of taste and individual comfort level,
of course.