In my point of view, our computer desktop is like front yard of a house. Every time you visit home you got to go trough front yard. Therefore people spend large amount of money to keep their front yards/gardens in tidy and clean manner. So why cant we spend couple of minutes to be aware of the way we can keep our desktop tidy?
Since couple of ago, I was looking for a utility/navigation tool or a windows theme which allows us to hide all the icons from windows desktop. Few months back I came to know about the idea call Docking which is mostly available with apple operating systems. After doing 5-minute google search, I came to know we have hundreds to utility tools for windows docking. After doing couple of comparisons I realized the freeware call “RocketDock” performs well and its giving big support for my day today task.
Here we go:
These are two screen shots I took from my home use laptop and from my office use PC environment.(
Nothing is visible on my desktop other than Desktop wallpaper and Top dock (I have setup my taskbar to “Auto hide” as well).
What I do (what usability engineers do) is usually time consuming and every second is worthier than the past second. Focus, Delivery on time, Running on correct track are must and those are very hard to be maintain during all the office time. At least your track/ Road should be clear enough to run or walk….
It’s easy to work with a clean environment, rather than working with 100s of desktop icons around. So I came to know this Docking thing saved 20-30% of my time (especially the time I waste to seeking thing whole through the my own computer)
Performance wise RocketDock is totally ok with me even with all of my day-today computer related tasks. Here is what displays by my task manager;
Do you know what is the most interesting bit…?
Most of my co-workers inquire about this tool. They simply say “WOW, Look at your desktop. What the hell is that on the top….?” J
I simply say….”We are UIs (User interface engineers). We should be different enough to produce different UIs. So we are different from everything….lol”
Credit goes to RocketDock guys for implementing this kind of tool. You guys better try this out too…its simply cool.. 
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