[Software] The effect of a desktop full of icons: how much it affects the performance of your Windows system.

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There are many laptop or desktop users who have dozens or hundreds of icons on the screen. Starting from that unpleasant situation, a series of scenarios have been created related to how it affects the performance of the system.

 

From my first Windows systems, I was drawn to the fact that a clean desktop is reflected in a faster PC. No one had many arguments for the logic behind that statement, but for more than a decade, I have not had any icons on the desktop and it is possible that my decision in this regard was influenced by those "tips".

 

 

There are many explanations for how the performance of a computer is influenced by desktop icons, and below I will cite a few of them, with a simple conclusion to remember. Systems with current hardware configurations are no longer influenced by the number of desktop icons, but those had a fairly large impact 15-20 years ago, when PCs were significantly slower.

 

Although it would be ideal to move your desktop icons to a folder, to find them easier and enjoy "cleanliness", the speed of starting and shutting down your PC is not significantly influenced by their number, more not at all.

 

In the boot process, the operating system loads the icons on the desktop into RAM, but if most of them are shortcuts to programs installed on the computer, they only have a few KB, and a PC with 4GB or 8GB of RAM is immune to that. unnecessary memory consumption. Even if you have many files on your desktop, such as PDFs, Word documents, pictures or movies, the operating system loads only the icon of those files, which is still a few Kb, compared to the few GB of RAM you have installed on the system.

 

On the other hand, you should never keep important documents on your desktop, because you risk losing them if your Windows PC decides to give up one day. The good part is that you won't be spoiled by the number of icons you have in the foreground.