Your Old 8.0 Desktop
The First Time You Log in with the New 8.3 client. Your desktop is automatically remodeled
Follow the instructions to Close and fully quit FC then:
log back in
This is Your Messy New Desktop viewed with 8.3 client There are some new FC applications along with the new look
To start your clean up: First Eliminate the split window. Choose View>Split> No Split
Don’t like the background? Dump it. Go to View>Change View Properties>
Uncheck Use Background
Click apply > OK
Move Icons around to see everything and Begin clean up
Background gone
Move any Bookmarks you have into the Bookmark folder
Drag and drop the bookmarks into the bookmark folder
To move the bookmarks:
The first time you try to use the bookmark folder, you will be asked if you want to add weblinks to your Bookmarks. This will make it so when you click save bookmark in your browser, it will be saved into the Bookmarks folder on your FC account. This makes them portable to any machine
Hey ! ! What’s this
Your bookmarks folder now contains your favorite internet destinations
OK my book marks are dragged and dropped
Get Rid of a couple of useless folders
Choose (by click shifting) the WCSU Policies, WCSU School Board and the SQUARE Help folder. Delete them
Junk Gone
Make new Folder
Consolidate some Conferences
Right click on folder, get Properties (mac = get Info)
Name the folder
Give the Folder a Name.
Change Icon if you want
Click to change Icon
Drag and Drop any district conferences into the folder
Repeat for other categories if desired.
Grouped District Conferences
Conferences Nested in My District
As before, go to View>Change View Properties> Background. Check Use Background Picture and choose from drop-down “\/” in image field. Click apply>OK
Add a new Background
New Background and Desktop Look