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Weekend Open Forum: What's on your Taskbar (or Dock)?
The Windows Taskbar and OS X’s Dock have gone through a few changes over the years. But despite their evolution, at the core they are still all about being able to quickly launch your favorite or most frequently used applications and easily switch between open windows. With that in mind today we want to ask you: what programs do you keep pinned to your taskbar (or dock for Mac users) and why?
Feel free to include a screenshot with your comment (you'll need to switch to forum mode). Mine is posted above (OS X’s Dock) and includes Reeder to check my RSS feeds, Safari and Chrome for browsing, Transmit to upload files to the server, Pixelmator for some light graphics editing, HipChat for our internal communication at TechSpot, Things to keep track of to-do’s, and Apple’s Activity Monitor and Mail.
User Comments: 59
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VitalyT said:
Some krap, tons of it.
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tw0rld said:
Running Rocket Dock. The dock is currently occupied by: Firefox, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Filezilla, Gimp, CCleaner, WampServer, a Docklet with all the Office 2007 program links among others.
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Really basic, IE only use for backup, network symbol, steam, afterburner for graphics card fan, and AVG anti virus.
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Windows Media Center, Windows Explorer, RDC, Chrome, Photoshop CS6, Adobe Bridge, Teamspeak 3, and Battlefield 3.
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Tekkaraiden said:
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows Live Mail, Window Explorer and Steam.
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Firefox, Libraries, Win Media Player, Codeblocks. Nothing fancy.
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Chrome, Libre Office, Mahjongg, Nautilus, Terminal, Main Menu & Audacity.
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m4a4 said:
Paint, notepad, Media Player and Firefox
On startup, Firefox is just a WindowsKey+4 away
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Chrome, Firefox, Windows Media Player, TuneUp Utilities
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TrueBooleanFals said:
Chrome, WoW, BF3, CoD:BO, Skyrim, Trashcan... but here, look at my whole desktop. Yes, my Desktop PC is using a wireless card... Horde BG, but transferred to SGTs' server and faction (Alliance)
http://postimage.org/image/tvrmicj9j/full because it wouldn't show up correctly.
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davislane1 said:
Finder, Mail, Tinderbox, Anxiety, Google Chrome, iStudiez Pro, Reminders, Notes, and Parallels.
Why? I use these applications the most frequently.
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Chrome, Firefox, Windows Explorer, WMP, Messenger, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OrCAD
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Explorer | Chrome | Postbox | iTunes | CCleaner | Photoshop | MS Word | Notepad | Calculator
Running NeXuS dock on Windows 7 (Plus Rainmeter for the time and date on the desktop)
Screenshot: http://I.imgur.com/OBKpi.png
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Pinned: Calc, Chrome, WMP, Shortcut to main Storage Library (WD 2TB), Creative X-Fi control panel
System Tray (at startup): Core Temp (Load and Highest temp from all cores), Network, Audio, Malwarebytes
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VS2010 and 2012. Nuff said.
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Windows Explorer, Chrome
MSI Afterburner, TurboV
Skype, Tunngle
Steam, shortcuts to 5 - 8 games
I prefer small icons. Nothing on desktop.
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a1120028 said:
All the usual suspects - Chrome, Media Player Classic, Utorrent, Alcohol 120, itunes and Firefox.
Use my desktop to dump stuff and clean it up later. Meto kills the entire way I work on my machine. Guess I'm sticking to 7 till something better comes along like I did with XP, that or make the switch to Ubuntu. I hear they are going to be supporting much more in the near future.
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Old image, but my desktop has been like this since the beginning of the year, I made/modified a few widgets.
Doesn't look bad, might update or something when I have time.
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IE9x64, FF, Excel/Word and Explorer.
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treetops said:
Start button, download folder, firefox and a very cluttered desktop. Core temp on the far right so I can see what im running at .
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MediaMonkey, Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla FireFox, Windows Explorer, Sticky Notes
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St1ckM4n said:
As previously said, things are indexed. I only really have things pinned if they are going to be open most of the time anyway. I use cmd and notepad a LOT at work, and they still aren't pinned (I prefer to WIN + type). So, this is what I have at home:
Explorer, MediaPlayer (or whichever), Opera. Further down, I have the Recycle Bin, and in the notifications area I have Steam pinned.
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Chrome, wmp, calculator, my documents, notepad, skype, recycle bin, microsoft office,
is there a shortcut windows programmed key to get to my documents just as there is a shortcut for my computer ???
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fimbles said:
Quote "is there a shortcut windows programmed key to get to my documents just as there is a shortcut for my computer ???"
Right click documents, send to desktop (create shortcut) drag shortcut to taskbar
IE9,external hdd, not much else.
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Google chrome...thats it. no desktop icons. I like a clean desktop
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