Right now, 19. I’ve rarely gone above 20.

I don’t have any! I even don’t have the macintosh one ^^ sometimes when I create new folders I use an app called camuflaje witch desapears all my icons!

I have 44 and I also have a folder where i put everything wheni coul´dn´t see the wallpaper. I usually organize it when i´m on vacation or holidays. I try but all that I download from the net end on my desktop.

I usually have about 10-20 icons (including hard drive icons).

Currently I have 6, but they are either .jpg’s or .psd’s. When I clean up, I tend to only leave the HD icon.

I currently have one between all four of my monitors; it’s a temp/scratch file that gets used fairly often.

Other than a few drive icons which appear automatically when various drives are plugged in I have 0 icons on my desktop.

8 hard drive icons on my desktop – files and folders are tucked neatly away on my drives.

Not too much, but sometimes ,a lot, I try to organize my desktop, by the way, I think is not good to have too much icons on the desktop, this makes the pc slow, (start), I don´t know if this happens on a Mac.

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I have 20 at work. They’re all useless, as I never click them. I always use my start/task bar (Windows 7).

I have 3 – The HDD icon, a transmit server droplet for quick access, and a pdf I have yet to read.

None. Occasionally I use it to hold files I am currently working with. But for the most part, I don’t have any icons on it. I feel like I work better when it’s completely clutter free.

Have exactly 14 icons nicely laid out and organized. Than my folders are nicely organized and ready for me to use. Kind of a neat freak I think lol Organization is good though Makes for an easy day IMO.

I have 3 icons on my desktop. Recycle, My Folder, My Computer.

I like having it clean, my taskbar only has firefox, everything i need is pinned to my start menu!

Currently my desktop looks like than the screenshot above. Every few weeks or so I clean things up, but it always gets out of hand. Always. Sometimes I pretend to tidy up and throw everything in a folder, “to be sorted later” (@Seba’s comment above)

The funny thing is I have extremely organized folders on my HDD. It just takes a long time for things to get put where they belong.

It is insanity. I need an intern.

Mine is 18 icons, but there are some more 30 items consist of images, folders, text files, etc. Total 48 things, not messy enough

recycle bin thats all everything is on the taskbar that i need about 25 apps

My task bar has 9, but my desktop varies between 20 and 30 usually.

Not bad, for a large scale monitor… I guess… anyway, everything is organized and active, and in my opinion, the issue isn`t about how many icons you have, but how are they all organized…

You can have 40 icons on the desktop, but I`ve got powerful pc and they are all organized and active, you can save a whole bunch of time there.

I have about 50 or so icons on my desktop. There relatively organized by what file type and use. Such as anything photoshop goes in one folder while stuff for coding goes in another. I like to keep my desktop organized as much as possible.

I have 0 icons on my desktop, just because I feel things get lost when they’re on the desktop. I launch everything using Launchy, or Spotlight if I’m using my Mac Mini.

Way too many I have an alias on my desktop called ‘desktop items’ every couple of weeks everything gets dumped in there and once every couple of months the folder either gets purged or archived. It the easiest way for me to keep on top of things.

1 folder and 1 txt file of 2 projects i should work on

0 – And I make a great effort in keeping it with that

I have 0…None. Ever. I just can’t do it.

omg how can you people live, I have nothing on my desktop, not even the recycle bin

None

Who uses the desktop anyways ?

Oh and icons would prevent me from seeing my awesome wallpaper

Folders and icons– all told– 75 (which is a lot more than I thought, and it’s prompting me to pencil in some cleanup/”filing” for tomorrow).

Just 2 icons, My Computer & Recycle bin

none – ever =)

It’s hard but I try to keep it as close too zero as possible.