As I was browsing my old posts here on my ‘personal’ blog I stumbled upon the Desktop Free View post I made last year, which I was tagged by someone. Since I have a free time here at the office, I made a screenshot of my desktop. And here it is…
My office desktop wallpaper
(click image for a larger view)
I’m using a wide screen monitor here at the office and it has a resolution of 1440×900 so if you clicked on the image for a full view, it may stretch out a bit, specially if you are using a standard 1024×768 monitor.
I’m using the same Black Vista theme on my Windows XP. I like the theme, but I don’t like running Vista on my machine, that’s why I still use Windows XP. The background wallpaper is a familiar sight if you’ve been to Hong Kong (or watched Tomb Raider 2 or The Dark Knight). That is the International Finance Centre, and is the tallest structure in its local area. I was reminded of the scene when I was there and the tour guide was explaining to us (tourists) about the structures there. I remember that he said something along the lines of… “it is like two hands that were clasp together praying to the sky” or something like that.
Like my PC at home, I don’t have any icons on the desktop itself. And I make use of the Quick launch toolbar for easy access of my most used applications. Now let’s see what programs I have running based on the screenie.
On the system tray from left to right:
- VNC Server. I think the former System Admin here at the office used that application to administrate the computers over the network. I don’t really know how/when to use it because he didn’t showed me how to. Anyways, I can pretty much administer all the computers in our network through my own skills.
- uTorrent. Yep, it’s a peer-to-peer download client. I’m downloading a movie if you’re asking.
- Yahoo! Messenger. We use that for office communication both here at the Manila office, and to the other group at Los Angeles.
- Another Yahoo! Messenger. This is logged-in to my personal account. For additional chat hours. Haha. And yes, my YM is hacked that’s why I can run multiple versions of the client.
- Autorun Virus Remover. Licensed and registered full version. I really like this program. It is not an alternative virus scanner for your PC, but it blocks those annoying autorun viruses that came from most USB devices, and that includes flash drives, digital cameras, mobile phones, MP3 players, etc. I really recommend this to everyone, since most trojans and worms nowadays came from USB devices.
- ESET Smart Security. I replaced BitDefender as my primary anti-virus because of its mediocre performance last year. It is normally colored light blue when active, and red when inactive. It is orange because my trial period is nearing its end.
And on the immediate right of the Start menu is the Quick Launch Bar. The first three app shown are (1) Firefox, (2) Microsoft Outlook, (3) Yahoo! Messenger. And the rest not shown apps are: uTorrent, AutorunRemover, Cabos (a good free lightweight P2P client like Limewire/Frostwire), CCleaner, FlashGet, Google Chrome, IrfanView, Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware, QuickTime Player, Remote Desktop Connection, Spybot Search and Destroy, SpywareBlaster, Winamp, and Windows Media Player.
If you notice most of the applications I use are either an anti-virus (security) software, or a download client. I love both. Downloading stuff and computer security.
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