true or false

[jaycub]

having a lot of desktop icons is bad for RAM and startup.
heard yes and no
im confused

 

[Nothinman]

"bad" is subjective. I think it's bad from an organizational standpoint. I have noticed that it will slow Windows down if you have a really cluttered desktop, but how much depends on the system it's running on.

 

[KoolDrew]

I think it's bad from an organizational standpoin

Ditto. It may get a little annoying trying to find some applications. I only keep my most frequently used applications on my desktop.

 

[P0ldy]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

I think it's bad from an organizational standpoin

Ditto. It may get a little annoying trying to find some applications. I only keep my most frequently used applications on my desktop.

And is even that necessary? In XP at least, you can pin whatever most-used-favourite-loved programs you want to the Start Menu under Internet and Email. My desktop usually only has the trash bin on it.

 

[intogamer]

true it depends on your setup and how much desktop items

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: P0ldy

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

I think it's bad from an organizational standpoin

Ditto. It may get a little annoying trying to find some applications. I only keep my most frequently used applications on my desktop.

And is even that necessary? In XP at least, you can pin whatever most-used-favourite-loved programs you want to the Start Menu under Internet and Email. My desktop usually only has the trash bin on it.

I would much rather click an icon on my desktop then in the start menu. Just personal preference I guess.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

I prefer the quick launch for all my programs. I usually have currently worked on files on my desktop but it is easy to suddenly have 20 icons, LOL, so I have to be careful.

 

[stash]

I never have much on my desktop, except maybe the odd Word doc that hasn't made it to my docs folder yet. I prefer the start menu or quick launch, since it doesn't require me to minimize everything to get back to the desktop. But I've seen people who have every possible spot of the desktop filled with something. Do whatever works for you.

The only time that I can think of where a lot of stuff on the desktop will slow you down is if you use roaming profiles. If you have a lot of data on the desktop, you will have to wait for that data to be copied from the server while you log in. So it can cause a delay when logging in before you see the desktop.

 

[daniel49]

depends on your resources. If your always low I would say yes. If your not I wouln,t worry about it.

 

[sonoma1993]

from what i heard, each icon on your desktop, eats up some kind of system resource. making windows take longer to load to the desktop and etc

 

[Jeff7]

The only slowdown I notice is when Windows randomly decides it wants to refresh the desktop when you minimize your windows - then it needs to load every single icon off the hard drive. Be nice if it'd load them into memory for me - got over 1GB of RAM here.

I've got 72 icons on my desktop.
Easy to find what I want too - click on any one, type the first few letters of the icon I want, press Enter, and it opens up.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

I think not. To answer your question in general terms:

RAM (usage)? Depends on what apps are actually running and taking up memory.

Startup (times)? Depends on what you have in the Startup folder and/or Run registry list.

 

[Nothinman]

RAM (usage)? Depends on what apps are actually running and taking up memory.

And explorer is one of those apps and it needs to use memory to keep track of, display, etc items on the desktop.

Startup (times)? Depends on what you have in the Startup folder and/or Run registry list.

And explorer's startup time, since it's what most people interact with any delay's in it's loading are easily noticed.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Has nothing meaningful to do with ram. Slowing the appearent startup is a sign of crappy video.