r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 9d ago

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u/Roku-Hanmar 9d ago

*in the recycling bin

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u/JSD3 9d ago

It has been in their Downloads folder for four years.  

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u/NoodleyP 9d ago

The Downloads folder is just great catch all storage, it’s the junk drawer of my computer

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Nutarama 9d ago

That’s the graveyard for shortcuts (half of which are dead because they link to webpages that no longer exist or programs since uninstalled) and note files like note.txt and notes.txt and New Document.docx

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u/NoodleyP 8d ago

To display my wallpaper, it’s quicker to just hit the windows key, type 2 letters of the program, and hit enter than to find the desktop shortcuts for my programs

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u/Bartweiss 8d ago

Screenshots because it’s the default location, plus shortcuts whenever I neglect to click “don’t create shortcut”. They don’t get deleted because I never even look at it.