I use to have my desktop like that too, but the dock slowed me down. I end up searching longer for programs up there than just going into All Programs from the Start button, lol. Plus, it got a little annoying whenever I try to go up to the pull down menus in Word of any other program and the dock gets in the way. I had it small and all, but the few milliseconds it took to get it off was like an eternity. Now, I got nothing all my desktop, just a few documents that need my immediate attention.