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Posted July 29, 2014
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adaliabooks: [..]I don't really want to put them into folders, I'm not sure why, but I just don't really like that idea. However, I have thought for a while that the way folders work on Android phones is quite good (just a little pop up window with more icons, like a desktop expansion) and would love a similar solution for my desktop. Does anyone know something that provides this functionality? Or just another way of organising things that would work?
I'm using Windows 7, if that makes any difference.
Uh.. I don't understand..a single GAMES folder on the desktop or on the taskbar with all the icons inside would be bad?
Wouldn't it work & feel exactly like that popup window? (I don't know it, so I'm wondering)
Post edited July 29, 2014 by phaolo
Posted July 29, 2014
GOG already puts all the game shortcuts into one GOG.com folder, so I simply have a shortcut to that on my desktop. Double-clicking it lets me see all my installed GOG games (sub-folders), containing also all the relevant shortcuts to game manuals etc.

I don't need to manually organize anything, nor do I have the desktop cluttered with all the individual GOG game shortcuts. Of course this applies only to GOG games, other games (e.g. DotEmu, Steam etc.) are somewhere else.

The closer details are explained in the following picture (gog1.png):
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Post edited July 29, 2014 by timppu
Posted July 29, 2014
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Maighstir: This. I have barely had anything on my desktop since Vista arrived with its start menu search, and what little I have had was quickly cleaned away. It's a lot quicker typing a few characters on the keyboard than reaching for the mouse.

Of course, now I'm on Linux, but the same applies here - one key press and live search.
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snowkatt: and what if you are an impulsive gamer and prefer to look at what you have instead of makinga concious decision to play that ?

i prefer to look at the rows of names or icons to choose what im going to play
if my desktop is empty i will never ever play a game
Should that ever happen, I'll take a look in the start menu sub folder for games.
Posted July 29, 2014
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adaliabooks: [..]I don't really want to put them into folders, I'm not sure why, but I just don't really like that idea. However, I have thought for a while that the way folders work on Android phones is quite good (just a little pop up window with more icons, like a desktop expansion) and would love a similar solution for my desktop. Does anyone know something that provides this functionality? Or just another way of organising things that would work?
I'm using Windows 7, if that makes any difference.
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phaolo: Uh.. I don't understand..a single GAMES folder on the desktop or on the taskbar with all the icons inside would be bad?
Wouldn't it work & feel exactly like that popup window? (I don't know it, so I'm wondering)
It's probably the OCD really, I don't like the folder left open after the game starts... (stupid, I know)

On the Taskbar might work... I might try that.

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adaliabooks: Thanks for all the replies.

That looks quite interesting. Not sure I'm willing to pay for it... but we'll see.
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katya_stevens: That version is 2.0; Stardock has a v1.0 which is still findable on various places on the internet (like here, for instance). V1.0 was free, when they made 2.0 and added features it became a paid program.

(I use it myself, and it helps my desktop organisation a lot. Three fences for games, adjustable sizes for the fences, and keep things nice and tiny.)
I tried the link you gave, but it wanted me to install all kinds of toolbars and download managers so I didn't.

However while looking for the free version of fences I've found something that looks promising

http://www.chrisnsoft.com/download#StandaloneStack

So now I have my Android style folders! You have to put the shortcuts in a folder somewhere, but that's no real hardship.

Having played with it a bit, one of the stacks is working and showing a grid as I want, but the other one is just showing it as a stack (basically all the icons in a column on top of each other, which isn't great). Not sure why. I'll persevere for a while and see if I can figure it out, if not it's back to the drawing board.
Posted July 29, 2014
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Tistonic: Wins7 has this kind of feature build in, it's useful in some way but having too many or long name might be a issue since it takes up taskbar space
I used to do that back on Windows 98, 2000, and XP.
Posted July 29, 2014
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Maighstir: I used to do that back on Windows 98, 2000, and XP.
oh wow didn't know it was on those ones aswell, how awesome :D
Posted July 29, 2014
You could also try Rocketdock with the Stacks addon:
http://rocketdock.com/addon/docklets/1791
Posted July 29, 2014
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AndrewC: Nothing on the desktop, just hitting the start key and typing a few letters of the application I want to run.
+1 for being hardcore! : |
Posted July 29, 2014
I don't like to have much icons in desktop because it hurts startup time and eats resources (it "checks" every shortcut at boot and after changes are made to the system) that was a huge problem for me before, I tried to solve it using docks and Fences, but they ended up eating even more resources, so I gave up.

Now I use Windows 8.1 and all is organized in the Start Screen, it's precached so doesn't matter if you have 10 icons or 1000, it doesn't penalize performance.
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