I don't know about you guys but I use my desktop for almost everything. I find it's eaiser to find things and make folders for them. I have all my renders and psd's in one folder and some movies and other junk and so on.... I heard recently that having these files on your desktop can take up unnecessary ram and is a bad place to hold your files. Is this true? Do you guys know any reasons why I shouldn't keep my files on the desktop? Any help is appreciated.
from what i know i believe its true (not a 100% sure though) :tongue: i think it takes up ram because it has to loads them all onto the desktop or it has to show them there :huh:
umm the performane 'cost' is negligeable. the onyl diference is windows needs to load the little icons for the files and do a few very small things. I think it's humanly impossibel to note the diference ona modern computer.
Our old computer was so slow that we had to call a guy to help us fix it. All he had to do was to move some big stuff away from the desktop and it was a lot faster again. My dad had instaled a few progs on the desktop and had some HUGE files there too. I'm not sure if it's that bad if you have it in a directory but i recomend you to move all stuff to your documents folder and make shortcuts on the desktop.
again it is likely that he edited the msconfig settings which take baout 1/10th of a second as well. I have nbo idea why people ever need an inhouse tech guy for software issues... just pop ina windows CD sit back relax and you're set...
