After using things for a long enough time, you start to get into a routine.  Be it a good routine, or a bad one, a lot of people are creatures of habit who generally do the same stuff again and again, even if it’s not exactly the best way to do things.  For those of us who are creatures of habit, our bad habits are hard to break.  Fortunately, PC World has a great list of tools and tips designed to banish seven bad tech habits.

Among the bad habits listed, the worst one (that other people do) is having a cluttered desktop.  I cannot stand that.  I have, right now eight icons on my desktop, with about four of them I use on a daily basis and about four of them I use often enough to keep them on there.  For example, once a month or so, I’ll go into my dad’s desktop computer and remove all the junk from his desktop.  I don’t use a desktop manager like Stardock’s Fences, I just make a desktop folder and drop all the assorted junk into it.

I also tend to put my desktop into sleep mode when I’m going away somewhere, which is also probably bad.  Even though I do it on purpose, I should probably go ahead and shut all the way down to shave off a few watts of energy usage.  I could also stand to break my reliance on the mouse to launch my programs, while I’m at it.

Tell me, what are some of your bad computing habits?