# Obsessed with Icon Cleanup?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328
**Category:** random
**Created:** [December 13, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328 "2019-12-13T17:35:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/1 "2019-12-13T17:35:36Z")
Whenever setting up my mac, before I do anything, I have to first clean-up all the icons in the dock that go with apps I won’t need to see front-and-center all the time:
Do you all do this as well? Or am I the only one? 🐃
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### Author:  [@Wayne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/2 "2019-12-13T18:10:16Z")
I just hide the dock. I love full clean screens
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/3 "2019-12-13T20:39:59Z")
I do the same; as well as setting up certain preferences like double tap to drag windows and turning off smart quotes.
I also take stuff out of the status menu and swap the role of the Fn key.
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/4 "2019-12-13T21:57:35Z")
I have 7 apps in my doc right now. And thats because thats how many apps I have open.
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/5 "2019-12-14T20:05:40Z")
I clean up the start menu on my new computers…
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/6 "2019-12-14T21:36:27Z")
Does it mean your dock would otherwise be completely empty if no apps were running? Do you have Finder showing, or did you hide that as well?
😱
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/7 "2019-12-15T01:59:56Z")
Finder is always there. I’m not sure about any of the others. I always have chrome open so thats always there as well as a terminal usually. If those things were closed… I dont know. But they’re always open so who knows. Even when I restart the computer those windows are restored 😛 I was on my work computer when I said 7. This is my coffee table macbook…
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### Author:  [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/8 "2019-12-15T02:33:30Z")
> [@kirupa](#):
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> clean-up all the icons in the dock
> [@senocular](#):
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Senocular’s trash can looks messy to me, just saying regarding icons and the doc.
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/9 "2019-12-15T02:52:07Z")
Now, I _do_ have trouble fully committing to getting rid of things. I think I’ve been burned too many times in the past. Never know when you might need that seemingly useless file from 10 months ago!
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### Author:  [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obsessed-with-icon-cleanup/641328/10 "2019-12-15T13:40:47Z")
> [@senocular](#):
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> I _do_ have trouble fully committing to getting rid of things. I think I’ve been burned too many times in the past.
I can completly concur with you on that. 😉