while some users need a desktop...
if you store enough on your desktop that this is preferable you still have to minimize the explorer window to see most of it. why is it any harder than to click the desktop tile on the start menu? i pin many items to the taskbar, but some of my shortcuts on the desktop i dont want in the taskbar, so they're on the desktop. most if the users i support have so much crap on their desktop that this is fairly pointless, and trying to get them to change is so much harder than showing/ telling them to simply click the desktop tile...