Franklin's Rule
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

People who keep their computers messy

I made this quaint little observation.
The number of icons on the desktop of a computer is directly proportional to how disorganized a person is.

Crowded desktops. Hate these a lot.

I have seen this myself, in many people.
I have seen desktops with about 80 icons on the desktop. Shortcuts, folders containing shortcuts, setup files, downloaded files (I blame firefox for saving all files in desktop by default, and I blame the people who still havent realized that.), word documents, photos, images and what nots.

And this is clearly reflected in their "organization". They tend to keep things lying around everywhere. And they lie "everywhere" until somebody tells them to move it away.
And then search for some item they have been missing for the one week, just because they did not care to keep them in their correct places. Just like how they maintain their computers.

For Windows, ideally, the only icons that should be present are My Computer and the Recycle bin. Thats the case with me. (Of course, I have a nifty multimedia keyboard that has programmable keys for launching all applications and opening folders.) But even then, I would keep away all files in their correct places. So much so that I know where each and every file have I are kept, neatly classified.

(One of the better reasons I like Windows - I can specify where everything is installed, unlike the Tux.)

And in real life too, I like to keep things organized, so that I would be able to find them in a jiffy, rather than hunting around at the last minute in a mound of stuff.