Readers Tips - How To Hide Your Desktop Quickly
How often have you sat in or given a presentation, and everything is going well until you have to flick to your messy desktop, exposing how unorganised you are or your inappropriate wallpaper featuring some bikini-clad babes?
The solution is simple, and has been right before me for some time, but I wouldn’t have thought of it if Nick hadn’t emailed in this tip:
It can often be embarrassing to show up to give a presentation and have everybody there take a peek at how cluttered your desktop is. To quickly get your desktop looking spic’n’span, just right click on your desktop, follow the “Arrange Icons By” menu and uncheck “Show Desktop Items”. Voila! Your desktop is completely clean and you don’t have to worry about people seeing all of those game shortcuts on your desktop. After the presentation is over, just recheck “Show Desktop Items”. It is as simple as that!
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Comment by Joe on 20 September 2007:
Nice. I’ll be using this!
Comment by Pete Wildman on 24 September 2007:
I never have icons on my desktop anyway.. But once you’ve done that, right click on the desktop and use properties/desktop to remove the picture and select black for the screen colour. Then when you are moving between presentations (assuming you are using the dual-screen Presenter view in PowerPoint), the screen blanks while you set up the next show and you don’t need to flip the projector on or off or shove a piece of card in front of it.