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bmxbandit 26-04-2005 23:33

How many windows...
 
...do you have open? i've currently got 12, but when i'm doing some kinds of work i can easily be looking at 20.

is this normal?

some ppl tell me it's a bit weird... :erm:

Raistlin 26-04-2005 23:36

Re: How many windows...
 
Ummmm.....

I've got one open, but that's in the bathroom and I have my reasons.....

Oh, hang on a second, I get you now.....

Umm, Sometimes I can have 5 or 6 open at once. If I have more than that open at once then I'm not really concentrating on what I'm doing.

I'm intending to get a second (TFT) monitor to hook up to my laptop so that I can have an extended desktop. I find it more useful to be able to see 2 or 3 windows at once than to have them open but in the background (particularly when I'm programming or working on databases).

zing_deleted 26-04-2005 23:39

Re: How many windows...
 
could try something like this

http://www.free-soft.ro/desktop/desktop.html

bmxbandit 26-04-2005 23:42

Re: How many windows...
 
i don't mean all resized into teeny little bits, that would be crazy, but in the taskbar...

i miss having a second montor (well, 2 pcs side by side) :cry:
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virtual desktops don't really make any difference. it's not a big problem having loads of windows open, i'm just wondering if other ppl do the same as me!

zing_deleted 26-04-2005 23:45

Re: How many windows...
 
I have all my windows open in seperate boxes instead of all in one,was always the same on win 98 and me not likely to change
So I do it the same as you

bopdude 27-04-2005 00:20

Re: How many windows...
 
sometimes I have 4 or 5 but thats rare, I dont have the need :(

NitroNutter 27-04-2005 00:40

Re: How many windows...
 
Depending on what im doing its normally 10-20 but I have been known on mnay occasions to have well over 60-70

usually have a good 20 items in the systray aswell

Chris W 27-04-2005 00:45

Re: How many windows...
 
firefox means that i am normally around 5-10 with between 5 and 10 tabs on firefox depending on what i am doing.

At work i normally have about 20

Richard M 27-04-2005 06:27

Re: How many windows...
 
When I'm developing at home I have about 10, with 10 Firefox tabs and at work it can be 3 times that, but there I have dual TFTs. :)

Graham 27-04-2005 10:24

Re: How many windows...
 
I've only got a couple open, but there's three tabs open in Netscape which probably would count.

greencreeper 27-04-2005 12:03

Re: How many windows...
 
At home, probably (at most) four or five. At work it can be dozens if I'm doing several things at once, but the minimum is three.

I think it's meaningful, but I'm not certain how. Box of pens. You keep losing a pen - do you try hard to find the lost pen, or do you get another pen from the box? Same with windows - do you use the IE you have on the taskbar, or do you just open another window? Two types of person.

Nemesis 27-04-2005 12:06

Re: How many windows...
 
You use pens on your windows .... doesn't the screen get a bit messy .... and it must be a bugger to print ... :D

greencreeper 27-04-2005 12:10

Re: How many windows...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Nemesis
You use pens on your windows .... doesn't the screen get a bit messy .... and it must be a bugger to print ... :D

:rolleyes: You try to make an intelligent point, and this is what happens :(


:D

Halcyon 27-04-2005 13:14

Re: How many windows...
 
Currently have 7 tabs open in Firefox and Photoshop so not many.

Electrolyte01 27-04-2005 13:40

Re: How many windows...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by greencreeper
:rolleyes: You try to make an intelligent point, and this is what happens :(


:D

His IQ dropped last week :D

At the moment I have 12 open, only because I'm working on a website for my college assignment :)

Graham 27-04-2005 17:29

Re: How many windows...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Nemesis
You use pens on your windows .... doesn't the screen get a bit messy .... and it must be a bugger to print ... :D

It's not the pens, it's the Tippex...! :D

bmxbandit 27-04-2005 18:15

Re: How many windows...
 
i generally have 2 windows open for firefox... one with tabs for all the pages i've got open that are work related, one for non-work stuff.

Stuart 27-04-2005 18:23

Re: How many windows...
 
How many windows do I have open? Depends on what I am doing, but usually less than 10.

There is a certain program I use at work that works on every lab machine simultaneously (using dos command boxes) and that can optionally open a window for each machine, so theoretically, I could have up to 300 open at one time. Windows (NT, 2000 and XP) copes surprisingly well opening 300 command lines.


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