The Desktop

My wife's desktop is filling up. This is our first Mac, and we hate
desktops full of icons.

A lot of these are .dmg files she can delete. Some of them are less
obvious.

She uses MSN Messenger, as it had all of her old contacts. I just
installed Adium and guessed correct about her MSN password (I wonder
how many people have multiple accounts as they forget earlier
passwords). When I ran it, it logged her off MSN messenger, which
still had a triangle under it saying it was running. I'd like her
to try Adium, but she may decide she wants her more familiar app
(except now that she has a camera in her computer, she'd like to find
out how to use it).

Then I tried dismounting MSN messenger's drive on the desktop - but it
wouldn't dismount because it was being used. I found the original -
her logon folder had the Mac Drive, the MSN drive, and the Network. I
don't want to get rid of anything needed, but I want to clear icons
off of the desktop.

I'm way to ignorant to start deleting stuff (although it's easy to
pull things out of the trash).
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