What's your PC background?

[Dave Gray]

Do you ever change it?  Does it mean anything?  What do you like or dislike?

[Brian Fein]

Mine is currently the photo I entered in the "nightscapes" chapter of the TDMMC Photo contest.  Prior to this (up until 2 weeks ago), it was a photo I took from the National Mall in Washington DC as it had been since 2005.

I like it to be something scenic, but it must be a picture I took.  I never download wallpapers from the web.

[bsfins]

It's usually things I've made,A lot of my sports ones I change with the season....The Av's are in the middle of Hockey season....So I should have an Av's WP,but I'm not going to get into that....I've been working on my latest one for about...errr I'd say a month....I probably have another 2 weeks or so to go on it...My old one I had the for awhile was the wall behind my computer,kind of giving there is a frame with an empty space.......(I didn't make a Dolphins one last year)

[cyan]

I used to get bored with my wallpaper and change it every few weeks.
However, back in 2005 I made a wallpaper myself that was just a collage of cover art from various Criterion Collection DVDs that I own.
I figured I would get tired of it soon, but I've had the same wallpaper and variations of it on all of my computers for going on 5 years and have not gotten tired of them.

Here they are on the desktops in my bedroom (I also have one like this on my HTPC in the living room).
And HERE is the full original file if anyone wants it (4315x1350, 12.6 mb)

[Buddhagirl]

I have a baby panda on mine. I get a new wallpaper a month from the WWF.

[Dave Gray]

I generally don't like wallpapers that aren't EXTREMELY clean.  A lot of clutter is hard for me and I can't really see the icons that well.  I often go with a straight light blue color.  But, there are some generic XP ones that are kinda like a gradient that I'll use.

My most common one is one that I made of my company logo.  Really simple and clean...plain almost.

[cyan]

I generally don't like wallpapers that aren't EXTREMELY clean.  A lot of clutter is hard for me and I can't really see the icons that well.  I often go with a straight light blue color.  But, there are some generic XP ones that are kinda like a gradient that I'll use.

My most common one is one that I made of my company logo.  Really simple and clean...plain almost.

What icons?
Oh...desktop icons. Sorry, haven't had one of those on a PC in like 9 years (except that pesky recycle bin icon that you can't delete). talk about clutter...use the quick launch bar.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

My PC background is the picture of myself and my son that I have posted in the Roll Call 2009 thread.

[fyo]

(except that pesky recycle bin icon that you can't delete).

Sure you can. Trivial in Vista. In XP the easiest way is to download Microsoft's TweakUI utility (part of their PowerToys collection) and use that.

[Defense54]

A Pic of my 3 Favorite things........ My 2 sons and my Corvette. 

[SportsChick]

Mine is a side shot of the Ruby Princess from our cruise in November.

[Sunstroke]

I change mine regularly on both home and office comp's to suit my mood. Currently, my home computer has a Michael Parkes lithograph called Diamond Warrior and my office computer has a really cool photo of my niece and nephew back in AZ.


(Diamond Warrior:  http://www.posterstogo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1111&Product_Code=1002 )

[Tenshot13]

Um...a topless picture of Nikki Blow

[MaineDolFan]

Mine is a picture of Abby in the snow.  In keeping with Jtex's wishes, I won't post it. 

[Frimp]

In keeping with Jtex's wishes, I will post mine. 



I don't like ANY icons on my desktop. That one folder on the right is there because its a portrait shoot that I'm not finished editing yet. Once I'm done with it, it will be put on a backup hard drive.